At the same time, his keen sense of justice required him to recognize and reward merit and efficiency even among his political opponents.
Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged.
The person whom I considered meet to be the bride of my son, may well merit her proper name from a low person like yourself.
Some one who might merit forgiveness for his other offences by bearing testimony in this matter?
But this has been all accident; and though it has made me very happy, I have had no merit therein.
Although I have relatives here, I shall not inform your Majesty of them, as long as they do not merit my doing so by their time and experience here.
Sanchez "wrote some treatises about the justification of the kings of España, and their right of title to the Filipinas, which merit that time do not bury them, although they exist in the archives of the Council of the Indias.
Therefore I will print some extracts from the book, in the hope that they may make converts to my judgment that the volume has merit which entitles it to publication.
Personal Merit (The Old Man and the Young Man had been conversing.
It is not a MERIT that it does the things which it is set to do--it can't HELP doing them.
In this process of "working up to the matter" is it your idea to work up to the proposition that man and a machine are about the same thing, and that there is no personal merit in the performance of either?
I suppose, then, there is no more merit in being brave than in being a coward?
In the world's view he is a worthier man than he was before, but HE didn't achieve the change--the merit of it is not his.
Neither of them being entitled to any personal merit for what he does, it follows of necessity that neither of them has a right to arrogate to himself (personally created) superiorities over his brother.
And machines may not boast, nor feel proud of their performance, nor claim personal merit for it, nor applause and praise.
A baby born with a billion dollars--where is the personal merit in that?
It has been suggested that the results of so much labour and research should be still further utilised; and that the merit and value of these Essays entitle them to a more lasting form than is afforded by the pages of a magazine.
Why on those shores are we with joy surveyed, Admired as heroes, and as gods obeyed; Unless great acts superior merit prove, And vindicate the bounteous powers above?
The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
Sincerity is an openness of heart, which shows us what we are, a love of truth, a dislike to deception, a wish to compensate our faults and to lessen them by the merit of confessing them.
It is always easy as well as agreeable for the inferior ranks of mankind to claim merit from the contempt of that pomp and pleasure which fortune has placed beyond their reach.
This was a merit which, before him, no one in Europe had attained since the revival of letters.
There are persons whose onlymerit consists in saying and doing stupid things at the right time, and who ruin all if they change their manners.
To awaken a man who is deceived as to his own merit is to do him as bad a turn as that done to the Athenian madman who was happy in believing that all the ships touching at the port belonged to him.
The test of extraordinary merit is to see those who envy it the most yet obliged to praise it.
We should not judge of a man's merit by his great abilities, but by the use he makes of them.
Self love increases or diminishes for us the good qualities of our friends, in proportion to the satisfaction we feel with them, and we judge of their merit by the manner in which they act towards us.
We should allow reason and good sense to fix the value of things, they should determine our taste and give things the merit they deserve, and the importance it is fitting we should give them.
He added that, 'if he appeared to have any little merit in their eyes, he should be amply recompensed by being admitted to their friendship and confidence.
To be armed against the prejudices of the world, and to distinguish real merit from the splendid vices which pass current in what is called society, is one of the most difficult of human sciences.
Perhaps, then, I was mistaken when I taught you that the greatest merit any person could have is to be good and useful.
It is no matter of merit to me to feel strongly on the subject of that change.
Still I must yield those worthies merit Who chasten, with unsparing spirit, Bad rhymes, and those who write them: And though myself may be the next By critic sarcasm to be vext, I really will not fight them.
Whose author is perhaps the first we meet, Who from our couplet lopped two final feet; Nor less in merit than the longer line, This measure moves a favourite of the Nine.
Or prune the spirit of each daring phrase, To fly from Error, not to merit Praise?
Byron, estimating the merit by the difficulty of the performance, rated the 'Hints from Horace' extravagantly high.
Forgetting that their pride of spirit, Their exultation in their trial, [xiv] Detracts most largely from the merit Of all their boasted self-denial.
Its pictorial merit is slight; but it possesses and commands interest of a very different nature from that excited by a mere picture, when we remember the painter's purpose, and the tremendous moral lesson he sought to teach.
We worship merit a little, but success more, and success must have its stamp.
There are narrow, ungenerous souls in every community who regard the success of their neighbours as a personal affront, who can see no merit in anyone, and who are never able to shape their lips to a word of praise or congratulation.
Slowly, too, he realised that in time he would be a rich man, not through any merit of his own, but through the judgment and foresight of his father.
It is the multitude of subordinate writers of moderate merit who obstruct all the avenues to great distinction, which really occasions the phenomenon.
The merit of all lyrical poetry consists in the clearness and cleanness with which it is cut; no tags or loose ends can any where be permitted.
There was one merit about him (due no doubt to his worldly training) which I have no wish to deny.
And there is certainly this merit in people of station, that they are not nearly so quarrelsome among each other as people of no station at all.
This variety has a flavor that no other variety can lay claim to, and another feature of merit peculiar to it is that it is almost seedless.
Inferior sorts have been discarded from time to time as those of superior merit have been produced.
But the sorts which are common to all are those of whose merit there can be no two opinions.
This has the merit of remaining in condition for use longer than any other variety.
We did notmerit it; few of us merit anything, for few of us are at bottom either very good or very bad.
Then, too, we remember that to each of us, at the eleventh hour, and through no merit of his own, was given the one thing worth while in life.
And yet, sir, when on exhibition in Europe this great work here before us received most extravagant praise from transatlantic critics, who are very loath to accord merit to American artists.
I should merit all the wretchedness that would inevitably be my life--long portion if, knowing his crimes, I could consent to link my future with his.
Each of them, in his way, felt the need of appealing to the new class of readers by direct portraiture of the readers themselves, Fielding's merit is his thorough appreciation of this necessity.
Thomson had thus the merit of representing a growing sentiment--and yet he has not quite solved the problem.
It was the one period, as authors repeat with a fond regret, in which literary merit was recognised by the distributors of state patronage.
Nature, he says, works in a cold and singular style of composition, but has the merit of never falling into 'mannerism.
The patrons did not exact the personal subservience of the preceding period; and there was a real recognition by the more powerful class of literary merit of a certain order.
According to Pope Homer's great merit was his 'invention'--and by this he sometimes appears to imply that Homer had even invented the epic poem.
Andrea Doria, who, for his fidelity and goodness, was considered to merit this memorial.
Whatever the age possessed of skill and merit in every branch of art was employed for the beautification of the new Chatsworth.
In giving these outlines I do not mean, fellow-citizens, to arrogate to myself the merit of the measures.
The Government's representatives, civil and military, are doing faithful and noble work in their mission of emancipation and merit the approval and support of their countrymen.
To merit the continuance of this good opinion, and to carry it with me into my retirement as the solace of advancing years, will be the object of my most zealous and unceasing efforts.
She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.
As the expression of their good opinion of my conduct in the public service, I derive from it a gratification which those who are conscious of having done all that they could to merit it can alone feel.
Oh, think not that I would merit your thanks and rewards!
Truly you merit praise, for I am told that you arrived in Berlin before me.
God grant that I may merit my father's favor, and ever show myself worthy of it!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
