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Example sentences for "great merit"

  • General Meade was an officer of great merit, with drawbacks to his usefulness that were beyond his control.

  • General Canby was an officer of great merit.

  • There were others of great merit, such as Griffin, Humphreys, Wright and Mackenzie.

  • The old verses to which it was sung, when I took down the notes from a country girl's voice, had no great merit.

  • They are nearly extempore: I know they have no great merit; but though they should add but little to the entertainment of the evening, they give me the happiness of an opportunity to declare how much I have the honour to be, &c.

  • The tune, to a learned ear, may have no great merit; but it is a great curiosity.

  • In the same rank, and perhaps of not so great merit, is the cold painter of portraits.

  • To be eaten up by sacred dogs after death is productive of great merit, and leads to re-birth in higher forms.

  • It is of course a work of great merit to erect prayer-flags.

  • Bantkie, the author of several historical and bibliographical works of great merit in the Polish, Latin, and German languages, has written a Polish grammar and Polish-German dictionary.

  • The Jesuit Niesiecki wrote a comprehensive biblio-biographical work of great merit, which is considered as one of the best sources for the inquirer in Polish history and literature.

  • Du Vair was a writer of great merit, who exactly reversed the course of Charron, beginning with theology and ending with law, though he died in double harness, as keeper of the Seals and bishop of Lisieux.

  • Zaide was published under the name of Segrais, who was a nouvelle-writer of no great merit, though a pleasant poet.

  • Great merit or promise is not claimed for these lines, yet they are worth quoting, if only for the sake of comparing them with the first attempt of another young shoemaker, Bloomfield.

  • He afterward published several theological works of great merit, edited and wrote the chief portion of a history of Cornwall, and finally became an editor on the staff of the Caxton press in Liverpool and London.

  • He lived till near the close of the fifteenth century, and erected some buildings of great merit.

  • Raphael, though best known as a painter, executed works of sculpture of great merit, and designed some other buildings besides the one now under notice.

  • It will not be forgotten that the country we are now considering was fully occupied by the Moors, and that they left in Southern Spain buildings of great merit.

  • In several other places in Siena there are others of great merit, especially where he painted in the vicinity of the works of the best masters of his school.

  • Bartholomew at Borgo, with some pictures of no great merit in the church of S.

  • On his return to England he produced several military works of great merit.

  • He produced some other works of great merit, which mark him a profound antiquary.

  • Her other works, if not equal to Jane Eyre, are still of great merit, and deal profoundly with the springs of human action.

  • Like Gray, he wrote little, but every line is of great merit.

  • His introduction to the study of the great classic poets, containing his analysis of Homer's epics, is a work of great merit.

  • Of great merit in Rome is the Assumption at S.

  • He was a good machinist, and of great merit in his oil pictures.

  • Proceeding next, O lord of earth, to the sacrificial region of the gods known by the name Prayaga, they bathed in the confluence of Ganga and Yamuna and residing there practised ascetic penances of great merit.

  • There in this region is his celebrated asylum productive of great merit.

  • In that region also, O Yudhishthira, is the well-known river Drisadwati, which is productive of great merit.

  • O sinless one, is the well-known celestial tirtha called Agnisiras, which is productive of great merit.

  • It is a great merit of Bergson's philosophy to have pointed this out.

  • It is a great merit of Windelband to have brought this aspect of the Ought prominently forward in contradistinction to the over-importance attached to the Will alone by the Pragmatists.

  • It is a great merit of Bergson, too, to have perceived this fundamental difference.

  • He wrote several moral pieces of great merit, some of which he printed in the “Eurgrawn,” a magazine then carried on in South Wales.

  • He published several works on theology and other subjects, which are of great merit, and enriched with valuable information.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great ability; great builder; great cities; great disorder; great enough; great error; great fancy; great fish; great hole; great houses; great improvement; great medicine; great mistake; great occasions; great people; great prostration; great respect; great show; great social; great speed; great style; great trial; great weight; great word; greater degree; greater share