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Even Jefferson's most panegyrical biographer declares Marshall to have been "an earnest and sincere man."
THE LIFE OF JOHN MARSHALL (VOLUME 2 OF 4)ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE
Erasmus had a panegyrical humour towards his friends, of whom there were many in England.
INTRODUCTION TO THE LITERATURE OF EUROPE IN THE FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES, VOL. 1HENRY HALLAM
But in these panegyrical orations, they oftimes rather exceed than excel.
BIOGRAPHIA SCOTICANA (SCOTS WORTHIES)JOHN HOWIE
Some panegyrical, directly contrary to the former; many of which we have in Martial upon the Emperor Domitian, and in others.
LECTURES ON POETRYJOSEPH TRAPP
It is rather satirical than panegyrical in character, and its poetical worth is very far from high.
A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATUREGEORGE SAINTSBURY
There is no panegyrical emphasis, no calumnious innuendo, in his sketches.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY, VOLUME 2 (OF 7)JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
He is perhaps weakest, like all poets with the signal exception of Dryden, when he is panegyrical.
A SHORT HISTORY OF FRENCH LITERATUREGEORGE SAINTSBURY
We have studiously avoided portraying fashionable life according to the vulgar notions, whether depreciatory or panegyrical.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUS
A fuller report of the above speech is given at f. 108, some panegyrical verses at ff.
THE LYON IN MOURNING, VOL. 1ROBERT FORBES
A fulsome editor is pardonable though tiresome, like a panegyrical son whose pious sincerity would demi-deify his father.
LIFE OF LORD BYRON, VOL. 6 (OF 6)THOMAS MOORE

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