Sentence examples for leaving posterity from inspiring English sources

Smith destroyed many of his unpublished manuscripts, leaving posterity a few ravishing fragments, a couple of hundred letters and two highly finished essays in philosophy, The Theory of Moral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

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.

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.

Once upon a time, the final print edition set a final, definitive version of a story and headline, leaving for posterity an immutable document of record, albeit one gathering dust in the newspaper morgue.

In America fifty years earlier, men wrote without censorship to loved ones behind the lines, leaving to posterity a record of ordinary people that only the separations of warfare could have produced.

Moe died in the early 1980's, leaving to posterity his many pictures, his rotary pay phone, and a long wooden table bearing telltale signs of a life of distraction, the burn marks of forgotten cigarettes.

Four years later he declared himself a legal pauper, and he died shortly after that, leaving to posterity what the art historian and catalog essayist Peter Cherry calls "the fruits of his failure, which are among the most brilliant of their kind ever painted".