meritorious

• “Buddha, a personal and historical character, 122; repetition of his name meritorious, 235.”

  Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays

• “How bad is it that every time I see the word meritorious I immediately associate it with The Lady’s Tutor?”

  Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary » Racism in Publishing » Print

• “(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) LEAH HOPE, WLS REPORTER (voice-over): Governor Quinn overhauls the prison early release program known as the meritorious credit program.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2009

• “The FM further stated the Government paid half of the research and development costs of electronics firms that proposed so-called meritorious projects.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

• “In regard to this two-fold cause, that is, the meritorious and the material, we are said to be constituted righteous through the obedience of Christ.”

  The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2

• “If this soul prevails over the lower two powers, the man is called meritorious and perfect.”

  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy

• “What one party calls meritorious, the other denominates flagitious.”

  Letters from an American Farmer

• “And will lastly be induced to conceive, that a good education consists in the art of producing such happy hallucinations of ideas, as may be followed by such voluntary exertions, as may be termed meritorious or amiable insanities.”

  Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life

• “But an aftion ever fo right and meritorious, which is only to be periodically performed, at diftaiit intervalsj is lefs burthenfome to cor« rupc iiaturcj than an undeviating attention to fuch fmall, conftant.”

  Internet Archive: Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society

• “All the encomiums bestowed on the ideal of humanity in its moral perfection can lose nothing of their practical reality by the examples of what men now are, have been, or will probably be hereafter; anthropology which proceeds from mere empirical knowledge cannot impair anthroponomy which is erected by the unconditionally legislating reason; and although virtue may now and then be called meritorious (in relation to men, not to the law), and be worthy of reward, yet in itself, as it is its own end, so also it must be regarded as its own reward.”

  The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics

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