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. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
There is a great eloge upon the Cambrians, but whether Mr. Campbell would be flattered with it I am not sure. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life] Reference
I have been particularly glad to get your splendid eloge of Lindley. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
Each number is flattering as a lover's tale; every article an eloge. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
In 1767, the Academy of Berlin proposed a prize for an eloge of Leibnitz. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
I could have almost cried with delight at this cordial, unlaboured eloge. '. From Wordnik.com. [Life Of Johnson]
M. le Cat, in his ` eloge of him, gives the following account of his dying words!. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
Till Alcibiades ends the splendid eloge that Plato puts into his mouth with these words. From Wordnik.com. [Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)] Reference
Tack TPB för att ni finns och även en stor eloge till Deathmule .. fjong90 - 06-01 12: 32. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Bay - Blog] Reference
As I dine at -- House, I shall have an opportunity of making your eloge before your arrival. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
Bailly had said in his eloge on M. de Tressan: “French gaiety produces the same effect as stoicism.”. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
I have run on, and not thanked you for your letter and M. M.gnet's beautiful eloge of M.. Hallam, which pleased me greatly. From Wordnik.com. [Letters from the Cape] Reference
When the French Academy, in 1768, proposed an eloge of Moliere for competition, our candidate was vanquished only by Chamfort. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
The eloge of Charles V. was the starting point, followed by a long series of works, and it ought to arrest our attention for a while. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
This circumstance would formerly have occupied a large place in the eloge of our learned colleague; thanks to the progress of enlightened ideas. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
Thank you for the ` eloge on your friend poor Cocchi; you had not told me of his death, but I was prepared for it, and heard it from Lord Huntingdon. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
The fruits of inftruftiori were communicated, perhaps at different times, t 7ored by the mathe - inadcal dirinaCton of Viviani (fee hit eloge in PofUenclle, torn.y. p. 59, fee.). From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: By Edward Gibbon ...] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character]
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. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopaedists]
What an eloge is hers! ” an eloge that not only delights at first, but proves more and more flattering every time it is considered!. From Wordnik.com. [Selected English Letters]
He was the author of a. paper in "The Mirror;" a work, in the train of which I am proud to walk, and am glad of an opportunity to plead my rela - tion to it, by inserting the eloge (I take that word as custom has sanctified it, without adoi) ting its abstract signification) of one of its writers. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ...] Reference
The subject was the eloge of Peter Corneille. From Wordnik.com. [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men]
231) The latter won by the address of a little English postilion, who is in such fashion, that I don't know whether the Academy will not give him for the subject of an ` eloge. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
1058, 1082.) - Hooker's eloge of. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2] Reference
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