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“This last enconium by Mr. Charles Pettigrew, the Bishop-elect from Edenton, added when he visited us.”
“The preface contains a very liberal enconium on the blooming excellence of Mr. Theophilus Cibber, which Mr. Savage could not in the latter part of his life see his friends about to read without snatching the play out of their hands.”
“Polly, we knowed of course that wuz the highest enconium possible for us to give.”
“His exordium was for the most part a beautiful and highly wrought enconium on the character and history of the Indians; particularly of his own people, in the past.”
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
“His remarks on peace were introduced by a beautiful reference to a picture of Penn's treaty with the Indians, and an enconium on the governors of”
An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830
“Walsh then goes to relate this rather boilerplatish enconium”
“561 For the style of this enconium (of the nomimos) cf. “Ages.” i. 36; and for the”
“I thank you most sincerely for your polite notice of me in the elegant lines you inclosed, and, however undeserving I may be of such enconium and panygeric, the style and manner exhibit a striking proof of your poetical talents, and as a tribute justly due to you, I would have published the poem had I not been apprehensive that, whilst I only meant to give to the world this new instance of your genius I might have incurred the imputation of vanity.”
“The movement was so well executed as to call forth from the division commander the following enconium: "I observed this movement from the Fort San Juan”
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