Procopius was the author of a history in eight books of the wars fought by Justinian I, a panegyric on Justinian's public works throughout the empire, and a book known as the Secret History ( Greek: Anekdota ) that claims to report the scandals that Procopius could not include in his published history.

The last indication that the Goths whose king reigned at Toulouse considered themselves Vesi is found in a panegyric on Avitus by Sidonius Apollinaris dated 1 January 456.

* Pliny the Younger advances to consulship, giving his panegyric on Trajan in the process.

He became a popular emperor, Quintus Aurelius Symmachus delivered a panegyric on Maximus ' virtues.

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.

In 336, Eusebius of Caesarea gave a panegyric of Constantine the Great on the 30th year of his reign, in which he broke from tradition by celebrating the piety of the emperor, rather than his secular achievements.

He carried his enquiries so far into the occult sciences of abstruse and hidden nature, that, after having given most ample proofs, by his writings concerning physiognomy, geomancy, and chiromancy, he moved on to the study of philosophy, physics, and astrology ; which studies proved so advantageous to him, that, not to speak of the two first, which introduced him to all the popes of his time, and acquired him a reputation among learned men, it is certain that he was a great master in the latter, which appears not only by the astronomical figures he had painted in the great hall of the palace at Padua, and the translations he made of the books of the most learned rabbi Abraham Aben Ezra, added to those he himself composed on critical days, and the improvement of astronomy, but by the testimony of the renowned mathematician Regiomontanus, who made a fine panegyric on him, in quality of an astrologer, in the oration he delivered publicly at Padua when he explained there the book of Alfraganus.

Sidonius had come to Rome to bring a petition from his people ; his contact in the court, Consul Caecina Decius Basilius, suggested that he should compose a panegyric to be performed at the beginning of Anthemius ' consulate, on January 1 468.

Sources for Anthemius's life are richer than for most fifth century Western Emperors, partly because of his origin in Constantinople, where the tradition of court histories was kept alive, and partly because of the details that can be extracted from a panegyric delivered on January 1, 468 by the Gallo-Roman poet Sidonius Apollinaris.

He was also the author of several shorter works, amongst them being a funeral oration on John Vatatzes, an epitaph on his wife Irene Laskarina and a panegyric of Theodore II Laskaris of Nicaea.

Carmen 7 is a panegyric to his father-in-law Avitus on his inauguration as emperor.

Of the former, his panegyric on the emperor Anastasius alone is extant ; the description of the Hagia Sophia and the monody on its partial destruction by an earthquake are spurious.

Cynthia itself, a panegyric on Queen Elizabeth, is written in the Spenserian stanza, of which it is probably the earliest example extant outside The Faerie Queene.

When made bishop of Orléans in 1849, he pronounced a fervid panegyric on Joan of Arc, which attracted attention in England as well as France.

He wrote a panegyric on Louis VI ( Vita Ludovici regis ), and collaborated in writing the perhaps more impartial history of Louis VII ( Historia gloriosi regis Ludovici ).

There is a tradition of a panegyric on the Sunday nearest to or preceding his festival in July.

He went on to complete theatrical frescoes for churches ; the Triumph of Faith for the Chiesa della Pietà ; panel frescos for Ca ' Rezzonico ( which now also holds his ceiling fresco from the Palazzo Barbarigo ); and paintings for patrician villas in the Venetian countryside, such as Villa Valmarana in Vicenza and an elaborate panegyric ceiling for the now nearly-vacant Villa Pisani in Stra.

He alienated Disraeli by tracing a purple patch in his official eulogy of the Duke of Wellington to a newspaper translation from Thiers's funeral panegyric on General St Cyr.

He is said to have delivered a " flowery panegyric on his wife's ears " after which he invited every gentleman present to feel precisely how shell-like they were ; to have misappropriated £ 1500 meant for the defence of New York Harbor, and, scandalously, to have dressed in women's clothing and lurked " behind trees to pounce, shrieking with laughter, on his victims ".

The Latin word Picti first occurs in a panegyric written by Eumenius in AD 297 and is taken to mean " painted or tattooed people " ( from Latin pingere " to paint ",; pictus, " painted ", cf.

Justinian rebuilt his birthplace in Illyricum, as Justiniana Prima, more in a gesture of imperium than out of an urbanistic necessity ; another " city ", was reputed to have been founded, according to Procopius ' panegyric on Justinian's buildings, precisely at the spot where the general Belisarius touched shore in North Africa: the miraculous spring that gushed forth to give them water and the rural population that straightway abandoned their ploughshares for civilised life within the new walls, lend a certain taste of unreality to the project.

Five bishops are known ( Lequien, II, 607 ): Theodorus, a partisan of Meletius ; Phoebammon in 431 ; Sabinus in 451 ; Vincent, author of the " Canonical Solutions ", preserved in an Arabic translation and highly esteemed by the Copts ; Moyses, who wrote the panegyric of Vincent.

His collected works, prefaced by a fulsome panegyric, in the course of which it is said that " he was a miracle of nature, and rather seemed to be the immediate production of God Almighty than born of a woman ", were produced by his son-in-law, Thomas Wilson, in 1619.

The eulogy was published to great acclaim and is considered a classic panegyric.

Then in 1788 ( a year prior to the French Revolution ) she appeared as an author under her own name ( Sophie had been already published, but anonymously ) with some Lettres sur J. J. Rousseau, a fervid panegyric which demonstrated evident talent but little in the way of critical discernment.

He published his autobiography in 1894, concluding with a warm panegyric upon British rule in Egypt.

He is the subject of a special panegyric delivered by the Buddha just before the Buddha's Parinibbana ( the Mahaparinibbana Sutta ( DN 16 )); it is a panegyric for a man who is kindly, unselfish, popular, and thoughtful toward others.

Thompson, it is likely that Sidonius, whose purpose was to write a panegyric and not a history, simply added some spurious names to his list, including the Bastarnae.

Eusebius ' Life of Constantine ( Vita Constantini ) is a eulogy or panegyric, and therefore its style and selection of facts are affected by its purpose, rendering it inadequate as a continuation of the Church History.

Rousseau, who was jealously sparing of his praises, addressed to him, in his Julie, ou la nouvelle Héloïse, a fine panegyric ; and when a stranger flatteringly told Voltaire he had come to see a great man, the philosopher asked him if he had seen Abauzit.

In his first panegyric to Constantius, Julian described the ideal ruler as being essentially primus inter pares (" first among equals "), operating under the same laws as his subjects.

Herodotus presents the Lydian accounts of the conversation with Solon ( Histories 1. 29 -. 33 ), the tragedy of Croesus ' son Atys ( Histories 1. 34 -. 45 ) and the fall of Croesus ( Histories 1. 85 -. 89 ); Xenophon instances Croesus in his panegyric fictionalized biography of Cyrus: Cyropaedia, 7. 1 ; and Ctesias, whose account is also an encomium of Cyrus.

The Gallo-Roman aristocrat and poet Sidonius Apollinaris was an acquaintance of the Emperor and composed a panegyric that is the major source for Majorian's life up to 459.

With the intercession of Majorian ' magister epistolarum Petrus, Sidonius Apollinaris, the son-in-law of Avitus, was allowed to deliver a panegyric in honour of the Emperor ( early January 459 ), receiving in reward the appointment to the rank of comes spectabilis.

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 Romans generally confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead.

A well-delivered, elegant and witty panegyric became a vehicle for an educated but inexperienced young man to attract desirable attention in a competitive sphere.

The poet Claudian came to Rome from Alexandria before about 395 and made his first reputation with a panegyric ; he became court poet to Stilicho.

They differed in the balance they believed essential to the sovereignty of the citizen -- but the supreme sacrifice each made served to maintain a still more fundamental truth: That individual life, liberty and happiness depend on a right balance between the two -- and on the limitation of sovereignty, in all its aspects, which this involves.

The equation was simple: wealth brought them happiness, and their united front to the world was their warning that they meant to keep everything they had, let no one in on the secrets.

Eileen got to dancing, just a little tiny dancing step to a hummed tune that you could hardly notice, and trying to pick up strange men, but each time I was ready to say to hell with it and walk out she'd pull herself together and talk so understandingly in that sweet husky voice about the good times and the happiness we'd had together and there I was back on the hook.

The raising of the $25,000 Improvement Fund two days before the time limit expired, and the spontaneous `` praise demonstration '' held afterward on the campus, were reported as events which had brought happiness to Miss Giles.

But Carla's eyes were on Agnese whose glowing face and softening eyes gave her a look of warmth and happiness.

Many studies have observed the effects of volunteerism ( as a form of altruism ) on happiness and health and have consistently found a strong connection between volunteerism and current and future health and well-being.

Studies have also been careful to note that feeling over-taxed by the needs of others has conversely negative effects on health and happiness.

A study on the relationship happiness to various character strengths showed that “ a conscious focus on gratitude led to reductions in negative affect and increases in optimistic appraisals, positive affect, offering emotional support, sleep quality, and well-being .”

He thinks only of his own personal happiness and the unfairness of the situation in which he has been placed but gradually comes to recognize his membership in a larger human community, which makes demands on him that he cannot ignore.

# Utilitarianism, where the practical consequences of various policies are evaluated on the assumption that the right policy will be the one which results in the greatest happiness

This experience inspired the text, which reflects on how evil can exist in a world governed by God ( the problem of theodicy ), and how happiness can be attainable amidst fickle fortune, while also considering the nature of happiness and God.

It is denied that happiness dependent on conditions will be secure and lasting.

Reward, punishment, happiness and grief all depend on how individuals live their life.

In A Fragment on Government Bentham says ‘ it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong ’ and describes this as a fundamental axiom.

[...] Koheleth's focus on individual experience, in particular the perception of pleasure, bears a significant resemblance to Hellenistic popular philosophy, whose central purpose was to find the way to individual happiness by the use of the powers of reason.

His emphasis on minimizing harm and maximizing happiness in his formulation of the Ethic of Reciprocity was later picked up by the democratic thinkers of the French Revolution, and others, like John Locke, who wrote that people had a right to " life, liberty, and property.

Ivanhoe maintains many of the elements of the Romance genre, including the quest, a chivalric setting, and the overthrowing of a corrupt social order in order to bring on a time of happiness.

God, he taught, predestines all men to happiness on condition of their having faith.

The meaning of life is deeply entrenched in the philosophical and religious conceptions of existence, social ties, consciousness, and happiness, and borders on many other issues, such as symbolic meaning, ontology, value, purpose, ethics, good and evil, free will, the existence of a or multiple Gods, conceptions of God, the soul, and the afterlife.

Thomas Hobbes instead founded a contractualist theory of legal positivism on what all men could agree upon: what they sought ( happiness ) was subject to contention, but a broad consensus could form around what they feared ( violent death at the hands of another ).

Hobbes's philosophy includes a frontal assault on the founding principles of the earlier natural legal tradition, disregarding the traditional association of virtue with happiness, and likewise re-defining " law " to remove any notion of the promotion of the common good.

Simeon was an entrepreneur in trade on the Columbia River ; in his will he suggested that his wife could " devote some portion of my estate to benevolent objects, or to the cultivation, illustration, or development of the fine arts in the city of Portland, or to some other suitable purpose, which shall be of permanent value and contribute to the beauty of the city and to the intelligence, prosperity, and happiness of the inhabitants ".