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• 'The several unexpected victories obtained under your Excellency's conduct, will eternize the same unto all posterity. —  William Lilly's History of His Life and Times
• But instead of joining in the design of making the town as pleasant to one another as they can, and improving their little societies, they amuse themselves no other way than with perpetual quarrels, which they take care to eternize (sic), by leaving them to their successors; and an envoy to Ratisbon receives, regularly, half a dozen quarrels, among the perquisites of his employment. —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
• Many there were who sought to eternize their own Names by honouring his; some by Elegies, and other Devices, amongst the rest one made this Anagram upon his name. —  The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets
• Plate inscribed with a ship's name eternize Make eternal. —  Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States
• They were introduced by a statement of the benefits likely to accrue to the English nation from settling the colony of Georgia; and go on to mention that the colony was in the most thriving condition in consequence of royal patronage and parliamentary aid, seconded by the generosity of contributors, “whose laudable zeal will eternize their names in the British annals; and, carried into effect under the conduct of a gentleman, whose judgment, courage, and indefatigable diligence in the service of his country, have shewn him every way equal to so great and valuable a design. —  Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe

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