A posthumous collection of his miscellaneous addresses and publications appeared in 1874 as Reden und Abhandlungen, edited by his son George (b.
Yet his posthumous reputation seems to have suffered in consequence, in spite of all his Gallic sympathies and not unsuccessful endeavours to apotheosize the "Irish Brigade.
He published next to nothing in his lifetime, but after his death there appeared several volumes of sermons which gained great popularity, and were followed by other posthumous works.
The thirst for posthumous fame which inflamed old heroes and poets rages still in days when greatness collects rents, sells dry goods, and corners stocks.
Filled with his posthumous business plans, neither cared for New York as Girard cared for Philadelphia and Hopkins for Baltimore.
That a murderer should be prevented even from affording some posthumous expiation!
And thus, like too many other rich people, she kept all her capital to herself, and contrived to get posthumous interest upon it, on the faith of contingent remainders.
Whistling softly, and calmly watching every curl and ripple, he was throwing a long line up the stream, while his flies were flitting as if human genius had turned them in their posthumous condition into moths.
No sensible man ought to care about posthumous praise, or posthumous blame.
But the sufficiency of Christian immortality frustrates all earthly glory, and the quality of either state after death, makes a folly of posthumous memory.
With a posthumous essay on Instinct by Charles Darwin.
With a posthumous essay on Instinct, by Charles Darwin.
This posthumoustribute to a work of genius is in itself so picturesque and interesting and has been so well described by Miss Alice Longfellow, who was present, that I have obtained her consent to reprint it in the Appendix to this volume.
Though there be no Academy in England which corresponds to that of France, yet admission to Westminster Abbey forms a sort of posthumous test of literary eminence perhaps as effectual.
I can hear the loud voice, the honest laugh, see the keen eyes of our old friend as I turn to the admirable vignette portrait in his posthumous Autobiography, and I can almost hear him tell the anecdotes recounted in that pleasant book.
So in The Professor, her earliest but posthumous tale, Frances Henri again is simply a little Swiss Brontë.
Yet the civilians have always respected the natural right of a citizen to dispose of his life; and the posthumous disgrace invented by Tarquin, to check the despair of his subjects, was never revived or imitated by succeeding tyrants.
The strictures on Norris only appear among his posthumous works.
Now here we cannot but find a contrast between Catherine and Ettore; yet it only concerns their posthumous earthly fate and fame.
His posthumous fame; its unlikeness to Catherine’s celebrity.
But this did not last long; at the end of the 9th century, Rome, torn by factions, witnessed the scandal of the posthumous condemnation of Formosus.
Posthumous judges, be their decision favorable to the appellant or not, form the proper court for quashing the verdict of contemporaries.
It is true that he may sometimes hear of his fame in the one case, but never in the other; but still, genuine and great merit may make up for this by confidently anticipating its posthumous fame.
Valued at first as a means, it is soon desired as an end, and to such a pitch can our enthusiasm rise, that we may sacrifice all earthly things for posthumous praise which can never reach our ear.
The desire for posthumous fame is usually cited by intuitive moralists as a proof of a naturally disinterested element in man.
The desire for posthumous fame he deemed it his duty systematically to mortify.
Even the hope of posthumous fame--the most refined and supersensual of all that can be called reward--could exist only for the most conspicuous leaders.
There was quite a store of these posthumous pieces of the late dramatist, some of which I read.
All foreigners were enchanted with her, and to them she owes no small part of her posthumous popularity.
I had never expressly noticed that text; but it will make the splendidest motto for Myers's two posthumous volumes, and I am going to write to Mrs. Myers to suggest the same.
As for Nietzsche, the worst break of his I recall was in a posthumous article in one of the French reviews a few months back.
He bequeathed his posthumous papers to Longueville, by whom they were carefully preserved, and a large portion eventually came to be published in 1759.
However, the difference is not great between his being literally a posthumous child, and an infant of two or three years old when he lost his father.
That he was a posthumous child is peculiar to this communication.
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