Merits

Examples

• His merits in this respect resemble those of Kepler in astronomy. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• That was to be expected of a man of his merits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I hate to dwell long on any subject, unless indeed it were the merits of these my most interesting and valuable memoirs! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• If it fails on its merits, he doesn't worry or fret about it, but, on the contrary, regards it as a useful fact learned; remains cheerful and tries something else. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The lawyers have twisted it into such a state of bedevilment that the original merits of the case have long disappeared from the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Every Christmas Day, he retorted, as he now retorted, It's no more than your merits. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• We discussed his chances, the merits of the other candidates, and the dispositions of the voters. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• His very merits he used as a means of offence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We are discussing the merits of the young Marquis of Worcester, Prince, Fanny observed to him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Not according to your merits, you know, said Mr. Bucket in friendly explanation to Mr. Smallweed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Indeed, it was through the intrinsic merits of his improvements in stock tickers that he made his real entree into commercial life. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Sergeant got on the subject of roses and the merits of grass walks and gravel walks immediately. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Perhaps his exalted appreciation of the merits of the old girl causes him usually to make the noun-substantive goodness of the feminine gender. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I think them injudicious, but I am not paid for giving any opinion on their merits. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• And betwixt ourselves,' sinking his voice lower yet, 'that woman's name ain't Missis Gummidge neither, though she has a world of merits. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A dark, keen, clever face, and a nice clear voice, and a beautiful brown head of hair counted among her merits. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His own merits must soon secure it. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I am never warm, Miss Halcombe, she remarked, with the modest air of a woman who was confessing to one of her own merits. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Of course you cannot enter fully into the merits of this measure at present. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• On the ground of your own merits? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• It's a spot to find out the merits of; little by little, and a new'un every day. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Judges were appointed to decide as to the merits of the different machines, and in most of the tests McCormick’s reaper outdistanced all its rivals. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The merits of such a light work as this, stupidly says he, is, that it is written without study, and naturally, and just as you converse. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Another's merits have had their weight, and have had far more weight with Me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• If her beauty or her brains will not serve her so far, she merits the sharp lesson of experience. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So remarkable a phaenomenon merits our attention, and must be traced up to its first principles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Criticism is the best test of such work, for it will show her both unsuspected merits and faults, and help her to do better next time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Thus does the world give us credit for merits we have not. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At length she replied: Do not be offended, Elinor, if my praise of him is not in every thing equal to your sense of his merits. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Editor: Sweeney