Word: eulogium
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...commonplace books are peppered with lugubrious notices on the passing of old friends, for death disturbed him. Yet, in 1792, he wrote down a wry "Eulogium on Death": "1. It relieves unhappy and discontented husbands and wives; 2. It relieves children from parents who keep them too long out of their estates; 3. It relieves Physicians of incurable patients ... 5. It relieves the world of old men who keep the minds of men in chains to old prejudices. These men do not die half fast enough. Few Clergymen, Physicians, or Lawyers beyond 60 do any good to the world." When...
...first the passengers sat sidewise on seats running the length of the cars, but seats were eventually set cross wise to permit the riders to pair off and to see, dizzily, where they were going. Eulogium over the entrance to one of Coney's ultramodern roller coasters: "This ride is a Memorial to Lamarcus A. Thompson, Inventor of Gravity...
Excerpts from Mr. Morgan's eulogium...
...loses interest. Mr. Parson's free verse seems strained and unhappy; the idea of the same poet's "Art" deserves a better expression. Mr. Allinson contributes to the campaign literature of the day, recently dignified (or chinafied, as many have it), by the pen of Dr. Eliot, a glowing eulogium on Woodrow Wilson, "greater chieftain of the higher mind." With this qualifying phrase many Republicans will no doubt agree; the Presidential mind at present is so high that Germany and Mexico have quite lost sight of it. Mr. Snow's "Post Mortem" is rather gruesome stuff, but it exemplifies...
...notice in the March number of the Virginia University Magazine, a capital account of Harvard and Harvard life as compared with Virginia University and the work of its students. The article is by no means merely a eulogium of our college. The writer, who is evidently a member, and an observant member, too, of Harvard, takes pains to criticize justly many of the failings of our college, but he does it in so admirably impassionate a manner that he deserves the warmest praise of all lovers of Harvard University. As a model of clearness and force, we commend...
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