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George W. Bush delivers the eulogy at Ronald Reagan's state funeral, June 2004. A eulogy (from εὐλογία, eulogia, Classical Greek, eu for "well" or "true", logia for "words" or "text", together for "praise") is a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment.
But the poor Dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still his Masters own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnotic'd all his worth, Deny'd in heaven the Soul he held on earth. While man, vain insect! hopes to be forgiven,
Former President Gerald Ford, whom Carter ejected from the White House in the 1976 election and who died in 2006, had written a eulogy to a rival who became a great friend, which was read by his ...
After folklorist Calum Maclean died prematurely of cancer in 1960, Dòmhnall Iain Dhonnchaidh composed a famous Gaelic eulogy [27] and said of his friend's death, (Scottish Gaelic: "Nuair thàinig naidheachd na crìche, Gun tug I gearradh nam chridh' mar gu sàbht' e"), [28] "When news came of the end, It was as a saw-cut to my heart." [29]
In his eulogy, her father described the circumstances he believes led to his daughter's death. "Mandisa fell down in her bedroom," he told the congregation , as seen in a YouTube video of the service.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled deliver a eulogy for a Black man who died last month after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards in Milwaukee, his office said Tuesday. The death of ...
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
Anita Bryant, a former beauty queen and pop singer of the 1960s whose career led her to become a spokesperson for Florida oranges in the early ’70s and an evangelical crusader against gay rights ...