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As though there were a tie, And obligation to posterity! We get them, bear them, breed and nurse. What has posterity done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to grip of noose?
As though there were a tie, And obligation to posterity! We get them, bear them, breed and nurse. What has posterity done for us, That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to grip of noose?
Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- John Trumbull
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- Approximate author period: c. 1790 AD · early modern
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 25 · quotation 17 · John Trumbull · McFingal. Canto II. L. 121.
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