Sentence examples for true posterity from inspiring English sources
We'll want to know all about your editors and childhood friends and Starbucks baristas — you'll be giving them true posterity.
If his line "in the end what chiefly survives, or should survive, of any Chief Executive is the quality of his personality" is true, then posterity may well celebrate the warts-and-all quality of a Bill Clinton over the blank-slate quality of a Ronald Reagan.
Now he wanted to write a true account, "that posterity be not deprived of such help as may happily be gained hereby".
And if posterity is true, it should reveal a giant in David Storey".
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.
As far as I can make out, Tony Blair has not yet announced that a duty to posterity obliges him to tell the true story of his Downing Street years - but he will.
True, not only the famous have been captured for posterity between their final breaths and the grave.
As will anyone who has ever committed their private thoughts to paper, as the true record of their soul and a rebuke to posterity.
A later edition includes, by way of appendix, a spoof of Smith's well-known epitaph: Tread softly (mortalls) ore the bones Of the worlds wonder Captaine Jones: Who told his glorious deeds to many, But never was believ'd of any: Posterity let this suffice, He swore all's true, yet here he lyes.
Sir John Soane's Museum in central London is a true wonder, a cabinet of architectural curiosities and, I like to think, the mind of Soane pickled for posterity.
