Both Uses of
posterity
in
Don Quixote
- I say, too, that when a painter desires to become famous in his art he endeavours to copy the originals of the rarest painters that he knows; and the same rule holds good for all the most important crafts and callings that serve to adorn a state; thus must he who would be esteemed prudent and patient imitate Ulysses, in whose person and labours Homer presents to us a lively picture of prudence and patience; as Virgil, too, shows us in the person of AEneas the virtue of a pious son and the sagacity of a brave and skilful captain; not representing or describing them as they were, but as they ought to be, so as to leave the example of their virtues to posterity.†
Chpt 1.25-26 *
- it is for the parents to guide them from infancy in the ways of virtue, propriety, and worthy Christian conduct, so that when grown up they may be the staff of their parents' old age, and the glory of their posterity;†
Chpt 2.15-16
Definitions:
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(1)
(posterity) all future generations
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, posterity can refer to the future generations descended from an individual.