We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care: we owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Junius

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Topic

Debt to the past Preservation of freedom

Author

Junius

Medium

Open letter Letter

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1769 1760s 18th century

Occupation

Writer

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Junius. Letter to the Printer of the Public Advertiser. 8 Aug. 1769.

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Topic
Rhetoric
Speaker
Samuel Johnson

Author

James Boswell
Source
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D
Genre
Biography
Language
English
Time
1763 1760s 18th century
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in journal entry, written by James Boswell. 31 July 1763.

Current Citation

Johnson, Samuel. Quoted in The Life of Samuel Johnson, written by James Boswell, edited by David Womersley. Penguin Classics, 2008.