Sentence examples for leave posterity from inspiring English sources

But Mr. Welch wanted to leave posterity his own account of his business philosphy.

The sticking point was her concern that crude recording technology would leave posterity with a sound inferior to her voice.

He had the collector's bug, like Mütter, and left posterity to wonder: What mother dropped that pin into her baby's mouth while struggling with the diaper?

That the lost were largely unseen on Sept. 11, their families say, does not mean they were unheard; those able to get word out left posterity an eloquent record.

Smith destroyed many of his unpublished manuscripts, leaving posterity a few ravishing fragments, a couple of hundred letters and two highly finished essays in philosophy, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and The Wealth of Nations (1776).

"I leave no posterity, but a good war record," he once said.

For what inheritance so valuable, can man leave to posterity?

After Welles's death, all that was left to posterity was a series of tantalisingly beautiful scenes.

She edited his oral history and the company archives, deciding what was left to posterity, and what, as she told me, "I'll take to the grave".

He did not offer any profound philosophy but accepted life as it came to him, leaving to posterity a true picture of himself and his times.

The apartment's sole tenant had died, leaving for posterity a bathtub turned orange from rust and a pair of dentures that sat uncovered in the medicine cabinet.