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A eulogy was delivered by former President Jimmy Carter, who said We have known kings and queens, and we've known presidents and prime ministers, but the most extraordinary person whom I have ever known in my life is Mattie Stepanek.
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Mumy read the eulogy at Harris ' funeral and was asked to narrate his longtime friend's life on A & E Biography that same year.
According to legend, Dolley Madison was referred to as " First Lady " in 1849 at her funeral in a eulogy delivered by President Zachary Taylor.
Bacall had asked Tracy to give the eulogy, but Tracy was too upset, so John Huston spoke instead and reminded the gathered mourners that while Bogart's life had ended far too soon, it had been a rich one.
Burke was present on the night Reynolds died, and he was moved within hours to write a eulogy of Reynolds:
His close friend, President Ronald Reagan, gave the eulogy at the funeral, which was held at Manhattan's St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church.
A short obituary for the Russian Academy of Sciences was written by Jacob von Staehlin-Storcksburg and a more detailed eulogy was written and delivered at a memorial meeting by Russian mathematician Nicolas Fuss, one of Euler's disciples.
At Graham Chapman's memorial service, John Cleese began his eulogy by reprising euphemisms from the sketch, stating that Graham Chapman was no more, that he had ceased to be, that bereft of life he rests in peace, that he had expired and gone to meet his maker, and so on, finally calling him an ex-Chapman.
Nine years later, a major source about his life — a monument with a funereal eulogy to Musashi — was erected in Kokura by Miyamoto Iori ; this monument was called the Kokura hibun.
However, Heidegger asserted that his dedicated students would know this statement was no eulogy for the NSDAP.
It is believed that the first person to say " shit " on British TV was John Cleese of the Monty Python comedy troupe in the late 1960s, as he, himself, says in his eulogy for Graham Chapman.
After lying in state in the rotunda of the State House in Columbia, his body was carried by a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, where then-Senator Joe Biden delivered a eulogy, and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he was interred.
He was buried in Lexington Cemetery, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Clay's vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1844, gave the eulogy.
They described James as the embodiment of good monarchy with Mair's eulogy that James '... indeed excelled by far in virtue his father, grandfather and his great-grandfather nor will I give precedence over the first James to any of the Stewarts ' while Boece in similar vein calls James the ' maist vertuous Prince that evir was afoir his days '.
A propaganda video of boys marching in camouflage uniform and chanting slogans of martyrdom was issued in 2009 by the Afghan Taliban's leadership in Pakistan, the Quetta Shura, including a eulogy to a 14-year-old Taliban fighter who killed an American soldier.
" In Barker's eulogy, the Reverend Robert Wright stated he was " undoubtedly one of the very greatest television comedy actors " and " as a performer, he made comedy look effortlessly funny.
His eulogy was read by Brock Peters, whose character, Tom Robinson, was defended by Peck's Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.
In a column on Mitchell's death William Safire wrote, " His friend Richard Moore, in a eulogy, noted that near Mitchell's grave in Arlington National Cemetery was the headstone of Colonel Gregory " Pappy " Boyington, a Medal of Honor recipient, who used to call Mitchell yearly to thank him for saving his life.
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After Caligula delivered Tiberius ’ eulogy, Caligula sailed to Pandataria and the Pontine Islands and returned with the ashes of his mother and brother Nero.
In the middle of the show Bono delivered an emotional eulogy to Brood before the band performed " In a Little While ".
President Richard Nixon delivered another eulogy at the funeral service in the National Presbyterian Church.
The first mention of the Tervingi occurs in a eulogy of the emperor Maximian ( 285 – 305 ), delivered in or shortly after 291 ( perhaps at Trier on 20 April 292 ) and traditionally ascribed to Claudius Mamertinus, which says that the " Tervingi, another division of the Goths " ( Tervingi pars alia Gothorum ) joined with the Taifali to attack the Vandals and Gepidae.
On January 15 Deng Xiaoping delivered Zhou's official eulogy in a funeral attended by all of China's most senior leaders with the notable absence of Mao himself, who had grown increasingly critical of Zhou.
Derrida delivered a eulogy at Levinas ' funeral, later published as Adieu à Emmanuel Lévinas, an appreciation and exploration of Levinas's moral philosophy.
As the President of the Senate, Mansfield delivered the lead eulogy on November 24, 1963, witnessed by Jacqueline Kennedy, as President Kennedy's casket lay in state in the Capitol rotunda: " And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands, and kissed him, and closed the lid of a coffin.
A panegyric is a formal public speech, or ( in later use ) written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.
The most celebrated example of a Latin panegyric, however, is that delivered by the younger Pliny ( AD 100 ) in the senate on the occasion of his assumption of the consulship, which contained a eulogy of Trajan considered fulsome by some scholars.
Historian Henry Reynolds notes of George Augustus Robinson: " His guilt and need for self-justification were clearly apparent in a eulogy he delivered on the death of Manalargenna in December 1836.
In 1995, there was a 10-minute tribute to Guyler, made by Danny Baker and the BBC, which the family used as a part of the eulogy delivered by his son Chris at his funeral service at St. Mark's.
The Wild Angels is still remembered for Fonda's " eulogy " delivered at the fiasco of a fallen Angel's funeral service, which was sampled in the Primal Scream recording " Loaded " ( 1991 ), and in other rock songs.
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