Wasglanzt ist fur den Augenblick geboren;
Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren.
What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit;
What's genuine, shall posterity inherit.
Muore per metà chi lascia un' immagine di se nei figli.
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?
Audiet pugnas, vitio parentum
Rara juventus.
Posterity, thinned by the crime of its ancestors, shall hear of those battles.
Ich verachte die Menschheit in alien ihren Schichten; ich sehe es voraus, dass unsere Nachkommen noch weit unglücklicher sein werden, als wir. Sollte ich nicht ein Sunder sein, wenn ich trotz dieser Ansicht für Nachkommen, d. h. für Unglückliche sorgte?
I despise mankind in all its strata; I foresee that our descendants will be still far unhappier than we are. Would I not be a criminal if, notwithstanding this view, I should provide for progeny, i. e. for unfortunates?
The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: "We do much for posterity; I would fain see them do something for us."
Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu—Letters. Jan. 1, 1742
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| text = <poem>Why should we put ourselves out of our way
to do anything for posterity; for what has posterity done for us?
Sir Boyle Roche. During Grattan's Parliament. See C. Litton Flakiner's Studies
in Irish History and Biography.
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| text = <poem>Culpam majorum posteri luunt.
Posterity pays for the sins of their fathers.
Quintus Curtius Rufus—De Rebus Gestis
Alexandri Magni. VII. 5.
Quid quseris, quamdiu vixit? Vixit ad posteros.
Why do you ask, how long has he lived? He
has lived to posterity.
Seneca—Epistles. XCIII.
Lés strangers sont la postérité contemporaine.
Strangers are contemporary posterity.
The survivorship of a worthy man in his son
is a pleasure scarce inferior to the hopes of the
continuance of his own life.
Steele—Spectator. Oct. 10, 1711.
We are always doing, says he, something for
Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do
something for us.
Steele—Spectator. Vol. VIII. No. 583.
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| text = <poem>Suum cuique decus posteritas rependet.
Posterity gives to every man his true honor.
Tacitus—Annates. IV. 35.
What has poster'ty done for us,
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
A foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.
H. B. Wallace—Stanley. Vol. II. P. 89.
POTOMAC (River)
And Potomac flowed calmly, scarce heaving her
breast, With her low-lying billows all bright in the west, For a charm as from God lulled the waters to rest Of the fair rolling river.
POTTERY
I am content to be a brioa-bracker and a Ceramiker.
For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.
The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.
Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown,
A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found;
'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound,
Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command,
Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand:
Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel
The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.
There's a joy without canker or cark,
There's a pleasure eternally new,
Tis to gloat on the glaze and the mark
Of china that's ancient and blue;
Unchipp'd, all the centuries through
It has pass'd, since the chime of it rang,
And they fashion'd it, figures and hue,
In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
Here's a pot with a cot in a park,
In a park where the peach-blossoms blew,
Where the lovers eloped in the dark,
Lived, died, and were changed into two
Bright birds that eternally flew
Through the boughs of the May, as they sang;
'Tis a tale was undoubtedly true
In the reign of the Emperor Hwang.
