Which preposition to use with eulogies

of Occurrences 96%

In the same discourse he pronounced the eulogy of Dr. Mason, who had died a few days before.

on Occurrences 37%

These are figures which in the history of wars will form a magnificent eulogy on the heroism of these troops.

in Occurrences 14%

Every priest has met with many such eulogies in his reading.

to Occurrences 7%

As it was, she devoted no little volubility and emphasis and eulogy to the importance of a genealogist in the eternal scheme of things; and gave her father candidly to understand that an inability to appreciate this fact was necessarily indicative of a deplorably low order of intelligence.

from Occurrences 6%

For some governors by arranging for testimonials and eulogies from their subjects were doing much harm.

with Occurrences 3%

On one occasion he speaks of coming out of a tavern with the dramatist, when they both found the staircase in a very cork-screw condition: and elsewhere, of encountering a Mr. C, who "had no notion of meeting with a bon-vivant in a scribbler," and summed the poet's eulogy with the phrase, "he drinks like a man."

for Occurrences 3%

He went to work with extraordinary courage and energy, writing plays, poems, prefaces for other men, eulogies for funeral occasions, every kind of literary work that men would pay for.

over Occurrences 3%

At the time he entered the senate, delivered the appropriate eulogy over his child, and departed homeward.

as Occurrences 2%

"Le gentilhomme," said one of the generals, in acknowledgment of their readiness at a peculiarly critical moment, "est toujours gentilhomme, et se montre toujours tel dans besoin et dans le danger"a eulogy as applicable to them as it was in later days to La Tour d'Auvergne, styled the first grenadier of France.

for Occurrences 1%

Though Poets have a licence which they use As th' ancient priviledge of their free Muse; Yet whether this be leave enough for me To write, great Bard, an Eulogie for thee: Or whether to commend thy Worke, will stand Both with the Lawes of Verse and of the Land, Were to put doubts might raise a discontent Between the Muses and the I'le none of that.

of Occurrences 1%

He made up for the loss by presenting his bookseller with another anonymous work entitled the "Eulogies of Howard, a Vision," in prose.

by Occurrences 1%

And then, seeking to relieve these eulogies by some strong contrast, she twisted her face into a wrathful expression.

Which preposition to use with  eulogies