Poole, champion of literature, cannot accept Calef whose " faculties, as indicated by his writings appear to us to have been of an inferior order ;..." and his book " in our opinon, has a reputation much beyond its merits.

He wanted to test whether his new books would be well received on their own merits and without the aid of his established reputation, and they were.

Although he had arrived with a bad character from London, his new supervisor resolved to judge him on his merits ; by Trollope's account, within a year he had the reputation of a valuable public servant.

* Anthony Trollope-Nina Balatka ( published anonymously initially-Trollope was interested in discovering whether his books sold on their own merits or as a consequence of the author's name and reputation )

Galletti's fame is not based on his merits as an academic, but on his reputation as the creator of a few hundreds of stylistic howlers, becoming a legend as Kathederblüten ( teacher's howlers ) originated during his time as a grammar school professor in Gotha.

The permanence of his reputation was secured by the merits of his Lehrbuch der sphärischen Astronomie, which were at once and widely appreciated.

Surtees, to maintain his reputation as an author and to stimulate interest in his literary merits.

The Latin introduction to this work states “ Sibthorp took with him a painter of excellent reputation, Ferdinand Bauer, whose merits our illustrations demonstrate .” Joseph Hooker called Flora Graeca, with its 966 superbly hand-coloured illustrations, “ the greatest botanical work that has ever appeared ” ( On the Flora of Australia, London, 1859 ).

Anthony Quinton began his review column in the Times Literary Supplement of 21 December 1956, writing, " Miss Agatha Christie's new Poirot story comes first in this review because of this author's reputation and not on its own merits, which are disappointingly slight.

The successes they have achieved to date-sold-out venues and snapped-up recordings issued on their own label-have been based entirely on their own merits, hard work and a phenomenal word-of-mouth reputation.

He stated that Mary, rather than being cleansed after sin, was completely prevented from contracting Original Sin in view of the foreseen merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race.

Similar amendments were tabled in 1829 and 1855, with the " most prominent " proponent being Andrew Johnson, who raised the issue in 1868 and considered the idea's merits " so palpable " that no additional explanation was necessary.

This relatively widespread use of VBScript is not because of many special merits of VBScript-several useful features of the full Visual Basic, such as strong typing, extended error trapping and the ability to pass a variable number of parameters to a subroutine have been removed-but mainly because, apart from being easy to learn, royalties need not be paid to Microsoft by implementers as long as the VBScript trade mark is acknowledged.

) is credited with being the first to expound upon the merits of green-manuring crops: " But then whatever weeds are upon the ground, being turned into earth, enrich the soil as much as dung.

To obtain a TRO, a plaintiff must prove four elements: ( 1 ) likelihood of success on the merits ; ( 2 ) the extent to which the plaintiff is being irreparably harmed by the defendant's conduct ; ( 3 ) the extent to which the defendant will suffer irreparable harm if the TRO issues ; and ( 4 ) the public interest.

Ultimately, the couple return to the father's house, where she lectures her sister on the merits of being an obedient wife.

In some posts there, he has expressed his opinion on open-source software, including open source implementations of Lisp and Scheme, as something that should be judged individually on its essential merits, rather than automatically considered good merely by the fact of being free or open.

On November 4, 2011, Ricky Martin was granted Spanish citizenship for his artistic merits and for his grandmother being Iberian born.

Supporters of the stay — such as Charles Fried — contend that the validity of the stay was vindicated by the ultimate decision on the merits and that the only thing that the stay prevented was a recount " being done in an unconstitutional way.

Nintendo Power listed Super Mario Bros. 2 as the eighth best Nintendo Entertainment System video game, mentioning that in spite of not being originally a Mario game, it was able to stand on its own merits and its unique takes on the series ' trademark format.

The " eminent merits " required to be awarded the order require the flawless performance of one's trade as well as doing more than ordinarily expected, such as being creative and contributing to the growth of others.

In 1934 he was awarded a British honour, being created a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ( KCVO ) due to his great merits in Anglo-Finnish relations.

In the Essays Tovey saw his role as being " counsel for the defence " ( Introduction to Volume I ): in speaking up on behalf of the work about to be performed, he was seeking to facilitate the listener's appreciation of its artistic content and technical merits.

Sometimes, the Court may overturn a lower court ruling and judge the case ex proprio motu without being petitioned ( cassation sans renvoi ), as long as the merits and facts of the case are on record.

The historical articles were of the highest quality, and quite unlike anything being published in the historical magazines of the period, since SPI, befitting its gaming orientation, tried to quantify almost everything, providing copious tables of comparative data on, for instance, the merits of World War II-era tanks.

At first they were incredulous at being harangued by a scholar but at the end of his passionate evocation of the duties and merits of the jihad warrior, according to Kamal ad-Din, the contemporary historian of Aleppo, these hardened professionals wept with emotion and rode into battle.

By the 1880s Müller was being courted by Charles Godfrey Leland, Helena Blavatsky and other writers who were seeking to assert the merits of " Pagan " religious traditions over Christianity.

Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned received mixed reviews with the general gaming press being less enthusiastic about the game's merits than dedicated adventure gaming publications.

The merits of laser treatment of these infections are not yet clear, and research is being done to establish effectiveness.

It has high merits of style, being lucid and pointed to a degree.

Calvinist and Evangelical theologians interpret sanctification as the process of being made holy only through the merits and justification of Jesus Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit.

However, Pirie expressed concern as he noted the Norden had become as much political as technical, and its relative merits were being publicly debated in Congress weekly while the Navy continued to say the Norden was " the United States ' most closely guarded secret ".

One memorable instance of such differences occurred during the mid-1960s as the merits of Daylight Saving Time were being debated.

If I now risk some comparisons with Sons And Lovers let it be clear that I am not comparing the two works or judging their merits ; ;

The life as we know now, after death therefore moves on to another form of life based on the merits and demerits it accumulated in its current life.

By the 1830s, the foundations of Czech literature were laid and authors now began to focus more on the artistic merits of their work and less on developing the idea of Czech literature and culture as a whole.

Remember that you were made king and ruler over many not by your own merits but by the abounding grace of God, and now you are making yourself by your own lust the slave of an evil spirit.

Newer bearings on the market now use ceramic ball bearings instead of steel, the merits of which have yet to be determined.

" No one would venture on its merits to defend it now.

As College Bowl had virtually no supporters left in the mainstream quizbowl community by this time, such " format wars " as did occur now focused on the relative merits of NAQT and ACF.

Studios no longer controlled all aspects of production, and from then on, notes Byman, " each film would now have to be sold on its own merits.

Often that use has ceased to be relevant in the modern world but even if that's not the case, in the Victorian era and for some decades beyond, useful items were often decorated to a such a high degree that we can now appreciate them for their artistic or design merits.

Nike's logo, now considered one of the most powerful logos in the world more for its ubiquity than its aesthetic merits, was commissioned for a mere $ 35 from Carolyn Davidson in 1971.

The tide had now turned against the Huguenots, and Schomberg's merits had been long ignored on account of his adherence to the Protestant religion.

Of his merits as a writer and poet we are now well able to judge from P. Bedjan's edition of selected metrical homilies ( Paris 1905-1908 ), containing 146 pieces.

Without entering into the merits of the advice which it proposes to convey, or attempting to defend ( what I now condemn myself ) the language and manner in which that advice was delivered, I solemnly declare, that in writing the passage which regards the Bible ( consisting of a single page, and the only passage which I ever wrote on the subject ) I had not the most distant intention to bring the sacred Writings into contempt, and that, had I suspected it of producing such an effect, I should not have written the paragraph .”

" I believe that the extraordinary technology that we now have merits the use of instant replay on a very limited basis ," MLB Commissioner Bud Selig said.

Colonel Taylor, whose merits were now recognized and acknowledged by the British government of India – although he had never been in the service of the Company – was subsequently appointed Deputy Commissioner of the western " Ceded Districts ".

Although the term has didactic merits, for instance when used in conjunction with the term Denmark-Norway, it is misleading because from the Middle Ages up to 1809 what now is Finland was an integrated part of the Swedish kingdom, whereas Denmark and Norway were two sovereign kingdoms which were united in 1380.

Morgagni, in the preface to his own work, discusses the defects and merits of the Sepulchrelum: it was largely a compilation of other men's cases, well and ill authenticated ; it was prolix, often inaccurate and misleading from ignorance of the normal anatomy, and it was wanting in what would now be called objective impartiality a quality which was introduced as decisively into morbid anatomy by Morgagni as it had been introduced two centuries earlier into normal human anatomy by Vesalius.

On 16 October 1991, following changes to the way ITV contracts were issued ( now via a blind auction rather than a bid on merits and potential ) it was announced that TSW had lost its franchise because of an ' unrealistic business plan ' related to its bid, which was viewed by the Independent Television Commission ( ITC ) as being far too high.

), that obfuscation is in fact the objective, and having in mind also that, setting aside the relative merits of the two different approaches toward that end, vis-a-vis each other, it can hardly be doubted that the employment of both together, as distinct from one or the other, must have a still greater obfuscatory, or perhaps more precisely, obscurantist, impact, a point well evidenced by the fact that this particular instance of circumambagiousness has, as I believe you will discover, successfully diverted your attention from the fact that nowhere in this admittedly now somewhat overlong sentence is there, despite its superabundance of subsidiary clauses, a principal subject or verb.

Still, I'm just now gauging whether he merits my loyalty or friendship.

But it is not on account of this nobility that we now review his life but on far better grounds … However gifted, his claims rest on a higher pedestal – he was the benefactor of his country … hey testified to his merits in the encouragement of every public and private undertaking likely to benefit India.

Many time-periods now have on-line discussion boards where reenactors and historians argue the merits of various items, how to make them, or where to purchase them.

After the match, Lopez convinced Whitmer to discard both the Prophecy name and the managerial services of Allison Danger, claiming that they no longer needed a leader or a manager and could now win matches on their own merits.