Word: eulogium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
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