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  • There you find those sublime impieties, those admirable lines against Providence and the immortality of the soul, which pass from mouth to mouth, through all after-ages:

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • That so few of the Saxons remain, because, overcome by succeeding conquerors upon the place, their coins, by degrees, passed into other stamps and the marks of after-ages.

    Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial 2007

  • It was a long walk; thick clouds made the atmosphere dark, though it was as yet only early afternoon; and the wind howled dismally over the hills of the heath — not improbably the same heath which had witnessed the agony of the Wessex King Ina, presented to after-ages as Lear.

    Wessex Tales 2006

  • The sciences of logic and psychology, which have supplied so many instruments of thought to after-ages, are based upon the analyses of Socrates and Plato.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • Genoese, on the other hand, keeps himself and his family at short allowance, that he may save money to build palaces and churches, which remain to after-ages so many monuments of his taste, piety, and munificence; and in the mean time give employment and bread to the poor and industrious.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Psalm, truly that mind is passing wonderful, and fearfully amazing; in that nothing past, nothing to come in after-ages, is any more hidden from him, than when I sung that Psalm, was hidden from me what, and how much of it had passed away from the beginning, what, and how much there remained unto the end.

    The Confessions 1999

  • Nevertheless he stands convicted by after-ages of the vilest act that any judge has ever committed.

    Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters George Milligan

  • Britain and Denmark have performed such deeds as will immortalize them for their humanity, in the breasts of the philanthropists of the present day; whilst, as a just tribute to their virtues, after-ages will yet erect unperishable monuments to their memory.

    History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens George Washington Williams

  • Old World, and in prolific Old World fancies, have been wrought into pretty legends or traditions for after-ages.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • Hence it is that the transcendently great may be more truly known to after-ages than to any contemporary.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

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