How To Use Panegyrist In A Sentence
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Here he administered for the first time the Sacrament of Penance; here he preached from the pulpit of his panegyrist his first sermon; here he entered upon "that career of zeal and usefulness which made his name proverbial in every family of the parish." ...
Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886
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In his province he conducted himself with such versatility as to furnish much material for the panegyrist and not a little for the critic.
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It had become conventional for the panegyrist to condemn flattery and, usually in the same breath, to urge the monarch to accept good advice.
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He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour —
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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Constantine, is he not an author who, in this work, bears throughout the character of a panegyrist, rather than that of a historian?
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Yet their anonymous panegyrist has made them patterns of all the virtues.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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That Zosimus, who seems to have endeavored to diminish the glory of Constantine, has said nothing of it, is not surprising; but the silence appears very strange in the author of the panegyric of Constantine, pronounced in his presence at Trier; in which oration the panegyrist expresses himself in magnificent terms on all the war against Maxentius, whom this emperor had conquered.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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“Your language is wonderfully altered within this twelvemonth,” said Mr Monckton; “the worthlessness of human nature! the miseries of life! this from you! so lately the champion of human nature, and the panegyrist of human life!”
Cecilia
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At the same time he is never less than eloquent as Wagner's panegyrist.
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Lady Hervey, who is your puff and panegyrist, writes me word that she saw you lately dance at a ball, and that you dance very genteelly.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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Gentleman, a circumstance of which an ignorant panegyrist has praised him for not being proud; when the truth is, that the appellation of Gentleman, though now lost in the indiscriminate assumption of Esquire, was commonly taken by those who could not boast of gentility.
The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.
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His calling C.assus his "panegyrist" is explained by Letter XIX, pp. 33-34.] [Footnote 102: C. C.rio, the elder, defended C.odius.
The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order
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It was a golden age for poets and panegyrists, koranists and literati, preachers and rhetoricians, physicians and scientists who, besides receiving high salaries and fabulous presents, were treated with all the honours of Chinese Mandarins; and, like these, the humblest Moslem — fisherman or artizan — could aspire through knowledge or savoir faire to the highest offices of the Empire.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Pious individuals endow recitation of the story by professional panegyrists on a regular basis.
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Through the mouth of his court panegyrist he was claiming to be descended from the Emperor Claudius Gothicus.
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“Envy,” it has been said, “permits every one to be the panegyrist of his own probity, but not of his own wit.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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And we shall assuredly not be without witnesses; there are mighty monuments of our power which will make us the wonder of this and of succeeding ages; we shall not need the praises of Homer or of any other panegyrist whose poetry may please for the moment,26 although his representation of the facts will not bear the light of day.
The History of the Peloponnesian War
