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What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit;
What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.
[Ger., Was glanzt ist read more
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit;
What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.
[Ger., Was glanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren;
Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.]
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anybody else
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have read more
After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
[Fr., Les etrangers sont la posterite contemporaine.]
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan read more
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states Israel, Athens, Florence, Elizabethan England
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
He thinks posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded.
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the read more
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son is a pleasure scarce
inferior to the hopes of the continuance of his own life.
