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A somewhat panegyrical biography�� and a scholarly travel book�� concerning Edward of Wales are current.

From Time Magazine Archive

Consider what Rome is;” and now he had got into the magnificent commonplace, out of his last panegyrical oration with which he had primed himself before he set out.

From Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by Newman, John Henry

From these gazettes could be collected “a greater number of panegyrical paragraphs upon ‘le grand Franklin’ than upon any other man that ever lived.”

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George

A fulsome editor is pardonable though tiresome, like a panegyrical son whose pious sincerity would demi-deify his father.

From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas

Becattini, in his panegyrical biography of Pius VI., declares that it was the worst after that of Turkey.

From The History of Freedom by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron