panegyric

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Mr. Dryden must be allow’d to be a competent Judge in an Affair of this Nature, and he has given us the true Character and Panegyric of Mr. Congreve in the following Lines.

From A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings From his translation of The Moral Characters of Theophrastus (1725) by Chorney, Alexander H.

Thus Isocrates, speaking of them in his Panegyric, says, "Those who have been initiated in the Mysteries of Ceres entertain better hopes both as to the end of life and the whole of futurity."

From The Symbolism of Freemasonry by Mackey, Albert G.

In the Panegyric of Mamertinus on the Emperor Maximian, one of the Augusti, who shared the imperial power with Diocletian, we have the first mention of the Picts.

From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)

There is no table of contents in the original text, which contains an Introduction, the Apologie and the Panegyric.

From An Apologie for the Royal Party (1659); and A Panegyric to Charles the Second (1661) by Keynes, Geoffrey

It was printed at Oxford in 1683, under the title of Wit against Wisdom, or a Panegyric upon Folly.

From Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 by Various