Indexed in the public record
“Here you would know and enjoy what posterity will say of Washington. For a thousand leagues have nearly the same effect with a thousand years.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 25df4a6681ee0951aaf48816044e9ecbedbafa43cf14bb3c64095d83e7040e2a
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths…”
William Cowper
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Tell me the tales that to me were so dear, Long, long ago, long, long ago.”
Thomas Haynes Bayly
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between.”
John Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Why thus longing, thus forever sighing For the far-off, unattain'd, and dim, While the beautiful all round thee…”
Harriet W. Sewall
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope;…”
Samuel Johnson
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“What needs my Shakespeare for his honour'd bones,-- The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that…”
John Milton
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for your own line — before someone else claims it.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.