Living of the present hour, they lost a little of their ephemeral personality to attach themselves better to the dead lying under the slabs and to continue them more exactly, to form with them and their future descendants only one of these resisting entireties, of almost infinite duration, which is called a race.
"Ramuntcho"
Pierre Loti
The fragments of Ben Jonson's English Grammar are worth the entireties of many later writers.
"The English Language"
Robert Gordon Latham