The man was laughed at as a blunderer who said in a public business: " — Posterity

"As to posterity, I may ask (with somebody whom I have forgot) what has it ever done to oblige me?"

"Herself the solitary scion left Of a time-honourd race."

"Was glänzt ist für den Augenblick geboren; Das Aechte bleibt der Nachwelt unverloren."

"We are always doing, says he, something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us."

"What has posterty done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?"

"Posterity is a most limited assembly. Those gentlemen who reach posterity are not much more numerous than the planets."