Eloge

I shall be proud and bound to help in any way about the eloge, which is rather a heavy tax on proposers of medals, as I found about ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)

Emily has left off writing to me; he wrote to me twice pour faire votre eloge, ce qui ne fut fort peu necessaire, and there was an end of his epistolary correspondence. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)

The chief subject of C. Fox's harangue yesterday was an eloge upon economy, and Jack Townshend, (154) who spoke for the second time, rehearsed these maxims of his preceptor. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)

I really believe, if any man ever went through life with consummate discretion, it has been himself, and he has preserved his reputation at the same time, or else I should not give his conduct this eloge. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)

There is a great eloge upon the Cambrians, but whether Mr. Campbell would be flattered with it I am not sure. ❋ Helen [Editor] Clergue (N/A)

The various speculations of that great and energetic intellect in metaphysic, logic, natural theology, natural law, are merely drawn out in a long table of succinct propositions, while the account of the life and character of Leibnitz is simply taken from the excellent eloge which had been published upon him by Fontenelle in 1716. ❋ Morley, John, 1838-1923 (1905)

I could have almost cried with delight at this cordial, unlaboured eloge. ' ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

To understand the march of feeling in French literature, and to measure the growth and expansion in criticism, we need only compare Diderot's _eloge_ on ❋ John Morley (1880)

Till Alcibiades ends the splendid eloge that Plato puts into his mouth with these words, ❋ Alexander Whyte (1878)

I wish our country could show more men like Chalmers to hold up to imitation, or if too exalted to be imitated, yet still to be proud of; and that they were fortunate enough to have admirers such as you, capable of recording their worth in an eloge, such as the public has the satisfaction of receiving at your hands. ❋ Ramsay, Edward B (1874)

De Saussure eut ce courage, et nous en ferons le dernier trait et le trait principal de son eloge. ❋ John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton (1868)

This circumstance would formerly have occupied a large place in the eloge of our learned colleague; thanks to the progress of enlightened ideas, ❋ Arago, Francois (1859)

We have seen D'Alembert, ever since the year 1763, encouraging Bailly to exercise himself in a style of literary composition then much liked, the style of eloge, and holding out to him in prospect the situation of Perpetual Secretary of the Academy of Sciences. ❋ Arago, Francois (1859)

If we are sure that we possess the eloge of Charles V. such as it flowed from the author's pen; if we have not reason to fear that the thoughts have undergone some mutilation, we owe it to the little favour that the discourse of Bailly enjoyed in the sitting of the Academy in 1767. ❋ Arago, Francois (1859)

Later, the Academy felt itself authorized to propose the eloge of kings themselves; it entered on this new branch at the beginning of 1767, by asking for the eloge of Charles V. Bailly entered the lists, but his essay obtained only an honourable mention. ❋ Arago, Francois (1859)

The eloge composed by the historian of Astronomy will not, certainly, make us forget that written by the first Secretary of the Academy of Sciences. ❋ Arago, Francois (1859)