To disabuse the public mind as to the error, that what is punishable in one can be praiseworthy in another; and what is excellent in the court can be execrable in the city.
It was in connection with the latter that the perplexing question of the danger of permanently lowering wages at such a crisis, in the praiseworthy effort to bring speedy relief, was brought home to me.
In what we considered a praiseworthy effort to unite it with other organizations, the president of a leading Woman's Club applied for membership.
It appeared to the superior that such an act, besides being praiseworthy in itself, would serve still more to reconcile the family to the monastery.
At Carlsruhe a decent refitting might be obtained, and he could return from exile that very day, thanks to thepraiseworthy early hours of brave old Germany.
These are indeed great and praiseworthy efforts, in which utilitarianism has assumed a new character, and found a new field of action.
The other gentlemen having lost nothing by the various failures, discussed matters with philosophy and praiseworthy decorum.
I have done nothing good and praiseworthy but as the instrument of Him whose servant and whose minister I am.
It rejoices me to find you have formed such a praiseworthy resolution, dearest Chetwynd," said his sister.
With praiseworthy punctuality, all the boxes and portmanteaux were ready at the appointed time, having been packed by the young ladies themselves, as they did not mean to take a lady's-maid with them.
For today becoming superior to our foes in point of prosperity as also of duration of rule have we become praiseworthy of men.
Who will regard as praiseworthy the act which was done by Kesava, as also by Bhima and Arjuna, in the matter of Jarasandha's death?
They therefore took up a less exalted position, limiting themselves to mere agitation, and to the promotion of the science of Judaism,--certainly a praiseworthy enterprise and a pressing necessity.
To raise them from their degraded condition is the praiseworthy object of the Viennese Alliance.
You've tackled the business with most praiseworthy skill.
With praiseworthy devotion the soldiers still hung on to the guide ropes till the foremost of them were hauled to within a few feet of the barbed-wire fence.
Why are they said to corrupt our minds, they who are as the ardour of our souls, stimulating us all, men and women alike, to grand and praiseworthy actions?
Mr. James, who took a praiseworthyinterest in prisons and their inmates.
Defn: Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthy action; he was praiseworthy.
Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield.
It ispraiseworthy for a religious man to go seldom abroad, to fly from being seen, to have no desire to see men.
And supposing it were, hadn't it very charming and praiseworthy turns to it--witness Felicia's rather noble gathering in and acceptance of Faircloth yesterday.
She credited herself with emotions of the most praiseworthy and purest; ignorant that the picture conjured up before her provoked obscure physical jealousies, obscure stirrings of latent unsatisfied passion.
By which cajoleries and expression of praiseworthy sentiment, Henrietta raised herself notably in Damaris' estimation--as she fully intended to do.
William Jennifer had many comments to make in the matter, and with praiseworthy reticence concluded to make them mainly to himself.
But with praiseworthy promptitude she stifled her astonishment and now really rampant curiosity.
It is praiseworthy in a prince to govern well; but it is not less praiseworthy to provide a successor who shall govern better than himself.
Such, reader, be it known, was my own praiseworthy determination when drawing nigh to the eastern shore of the stream opposite the ancient French village Kaskaskia.
Blessed Francis did not, however, desire that we should put ourselves to the constraint and discomfort of avoiding good actions simply because of their being praiseworthy in the eyes of others.
