“We are a kind of posterity in respect to them.”
Original source
Letter to William Strahan (1745); reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919)
Letter to William Strahan (1745); reported in ''Bartlett's Familiar Quotations'', 10th ed. (1919)
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