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Usage examples of merit.

That is my opinion as an honest scholar, viewing the question academically and on its merits.

Next to the merit of infallibility which you appear to possess, I rank that of candidly acknowledging a fault.

Raby had that touch of generosity in her own character that never permitted her to see merit without openly acknowledging, and endeavouring to reward it.

Although he was ignorant and devoid of any merit save a handsome face, he thought that an ecclesiastical career would insure his happiness, and he depended a great deal upon his preaching, for which, according to the opinion of the women with whom he was acquainted, he had a decided talent.

It must not be forgotten that his modelled work derives an adventitious merit from the splendour of the frescoes with which it is surrounded, and from our admiration of the astounding range of power manifested by their author.

Further than this, a physician of merit will not advertise himself in the newspapers, except to announce the location of his office or residence.

The sermon had at first been entrusted to the Reverend Father Agaric, but, in spite of his merits, he was thought unequal to the occasion in zeal and doctrine, and the eloquent Capuchin friar, who for six months had gone through the barracks preaching against the enemies of God and authority, had been chosen in his place.

He opened the first agenda and leafed through the pages, stopping to point out several of the entries that had merited his attention.

As often as he is pressed by the demands of the Koreish, he involves himself in the obscure boast of vision and prophecy, appeals to the internal proofs of his doctrine, and shields himself behind the providence of God, who refuses those signs and wonders that would depreciate the merit of faith, and aggravate the guilt of infidelity.

After the preliminary investigation the attorney general could determine the allegation had no merit and drop it.

The impossibility of examining into the merits of individuals by tens of thousands, and of establishing the quality and degree of their offenses, was so obvious that representatives on both sides of the House demanded an Act of general amnesty, excepting therefrom only the few classes whose names would lead to discussion and possibly to the defeat of the beneficent measure.

The broken army of the Goths abandoned the field of battle, the wasted province, and the passage of the Danube: and although the eldest of the sons of Constantine was permitted to supply the place of his father, the merit of the victory, which diffused universal joy, was ascribed to the auspicious counsels of the emperor himself.

But the sinful priest, being defiled, has neither the life nor the merits befitting this sacrament.

At this reply, the quickness of which constituted its chief merit, everybody present began to laugh and applaud.

Poor Poinsinet put him in a little one-act play called Le Cercle, which, though of very ordinary merit, was a great success.