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  • "Ego has tubulas _Prutenicas_ dici volui, ut sciret posteritas tuâ liberalitate, Princeps Alberte, nos adjutos esse, et tibi gratiam ab iis, quibus profuturæ sunt deberi."

    Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 Various

  • Vivit, vivetque per omnium sæculorum memoriam; omnisque posteritas illius in te scripta mirabitur, tuum in eum factum execrabitur.

    A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements Caius Cornelius Tacitus

  • Dumque hoc vel forte vel providentia vel utcunque constitutum rerum naturæ corpus, quod ille pæne solus Romanorum animo vidit, ingenio complexus est, eloquentia illuminavit, manebit incolume: comitem ævi sui laudem Ciceronis trahet; omnisque posteritas illius in te scripta mirabitur, tuum in eum factum execrabitur: citiusque in mundo genus hominum, quam cadet.

    An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition George Sharswood

  • 'Nil erit ulterius, quod nostris moribus addat posteritas; eadem facient cupientque minores, omne in praecipiti vitium stetit.

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • ‘What hath it profited posterity—quid posteritas emolumenti tulit, ’ wrote Sulpicius Severus, about 400 A.D., ‘to read of Hector’s fighting or Socrates’ philosophising?

    X. English Literature in Our Universities (I) 1916

  • Monumentum posteritas dedit. — a tribute duly anticipated by the French Academy in the last words of the hero's epitaph in the chapel of the Ursuline monastery: —

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • It is a monument dedicated to the memory of Wolfe and Montcalm, and the dedication, which is one of the noblest and best of the kind, not only for the sentiments which it records but also as a literary expression, is as follows: "_Mortem virtus communem famam historia monumentum posteritas dedit_."

    Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Various 1870

  • Montcalm, with this inscription: _Mortem virtus communem, famam historia, monumentum posteritas dedit_ [Valor, history, and posterity assigned fellowship in death, fame, and memorial].

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 1830

  • Those relics therefore of idolatry, _quibus quasi monumentis posteritas admoneatur_ (as Wolphius rightly saith (527)), are to be quite defaced and destroyed, because they serve to honour the memory of cursed idols.

    The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630

  • et quinquaginta regum regemque patremque, castra decem aestatum uictamque sub Hectore Troiam erroremque ducis totidem quot uicerat annis instantem bello geminataque Pergama ponto5 ultimaque in patria captisque penatibus arma ore sacro cecinit; patriam quoi cura petentum dum dabat eripuit, cuiusque ex ore profusos omnis posteritas latices in carmina duxit amnemque in tenuis ausa est diducere riuos, 10 unius fecunda bonis. sed proximus illi

    The Theme of the Astrological Poet 1912

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