posterity (n.)
- aftermath
- agnate
- ancestry
- blood
- brood
- children
- clansman
- cognate
- collateral
- conclusion
- consequence
- descendant
- descendants
- dynasty
- effect
- enate
- family
- flesh
- folks
- german
- heir
- inheritor
- issue
- kin
- kindred
- kinfolk
- kinsfolk
- kinsman
- kinswoman
- line
- lineage
- offspring
- people
- progeny
- relations
- replacement
- seed
- sequel
- sib
- sibling
- successor
- tribesman
Byron's European fame is the best earnest of his immortality, for a foreign nation is a kind of contemporaneous posterity.—Horace Binney Wallace: Stanley, or the Recollections of a Man of the World, vol. ii. p. 89.
As though there were a tie
And obligation to posterity.
We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse:
What has posterity done for us
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man!—To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion! To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity; to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries!
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
As though there were a tie
And obligation to posterity.
We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse:
What has posterity done for us
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
Think of your ancestors and your posterity.
I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.
Letters of Junius. Letter xii. To the Duke of Grafton.
We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.
Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.
