Larivey's family was established at Troyes in the Champagne region.

Little is known of Larivey's biography.

Molière's L ' Avare ( The Miser ) owes much to the scene in Larivey's masterpiece, Les Esprits, where Séverin laments the loss of his purse, and the opening scene of the play seems to have suggested Regnard's Retour imprévu.

It is uncertain whether Larivey's plays were represented, though they were evidently written for the stage.

:" Simonides has a simple style, but he can be commended for the aptness of his language and for a certain charm ; his chief merit, however, lies in the power to excite pity, so much so that some prefer him in this respect to all other writers of the genre.

The merit of these tales lies partly in the delicate finish of the style, but mainly in the graphic and charming pictures of French society under King Louis XV.

He was the joint author with Ferdinand Séré of a five-volume work, Le moyen âge et la renaissance ( 1847 ), a standard work on the manners, customs and dress of those times, the chief merit of which lies in the great number of illustrations it contains.

While some maintain that this doctrine is the opposite of " works ' righteousness " and conflicts with some of the aspects of the Roman Catholic doctrine of merit, it might be asserted that this article, taken at face value, conflicts in no way with Roman Catholic teaching ; while the doctrine that grace is truly and always a gift of God is held in agreement between both views, the difference in doctrine lies mainly in two facts: that of God as sole actor in grace ( in other words, that grace is always efficacious without any cooperation by man ), and second, that man cannot by any action of his own, acting under the influence of grace, cooperate with grace to " merit " greater graces for himself ( the latter would be the doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church ).

Eleazar's great merit therefore lies not only in his new mystical system, but also in his ethical works.

Upon its second release, the New York Times said of it, " If a book such as this can be said to have charm, it lies in the fact that here is a book without one single redeeming merit.

His researches on elliptic functions are of considerable elegance, but their great merit lies in the stimulating effect which they had on later mathematicians.

Laube's dramas are not remarkable for originality or for poetical beauty ; their real and great merit lies in their stage-craft.

His merit lies in the fact that he was the first to deal systematically with the question of Church and State, and the position taken by him, and the manner in which that position was assumed, gave rise to a lifelong conflict between Giannone and the Roman Catholic Church.

The poem's main merit lies in its comparison of English and Italian morals, arguing that the English aversion to adultery is mere hypocrisy in light of the probably shocking, but more honest custom of the Cavalier Servente in Italy.

This characterization has been challenged by other critics who claim either that it is an anachronistic use of the word, or that her beliefs were not progressive enough to merit such a designation.

The tool is typically found on small holdings too small or poor to merit use of animals.

Not only does this increase the merit earned by the wheel's use, but it is a mind-stabilization technique that trains the mind while the body is in motion.

The citation for the certificate of merit read, " For their outstanding contribution to the advancement of the use of sound in motion pictures through the production of Fantasia.

It is also concerned with the use and merit of science and sometimes overlaps metaphysics and epistemology by exploring whether scientific results are actually a study of truth.

Its merit is that it has enabled the Croatian athletes for the first time in history to use their national symbols in the Olympics in Albertville and Barcelona, and are thus permanently incorporated in the global Olympic family.

This was the only time BSA National approved a regional merit badge for any such use.

The Supreme Court is generally careful to choose only cases over which the Court has jurisdiction and which the Court considers sufficiently important, such as cases involving deep constitutional questions, to merit the use of its limited resources.

Phoenix was committed to gaining credibility by his own merit and so he maintained that the band would not use his name when securing performances that were not benefits for charitable organizations.

Velikovsky relates in his book Stargazers & Gravediggers how he tried to protect himself from criticism of his celestial mechanics by removing the original Appendix on the subject from Worlds in Collision, hoping that the merit of his ideas would be evaluated on the basis of his comparative mythology and use of literary sources alone.

" Meritage ", — a combination of merit and heritage, was selected and its coiner awarded two bottles of the first ten vintages of every wine licensed to use the brand.

Carried out in broadside ballads, the Churchyard-Camel debate was concerned with the relative merit of the plain style in native English literary tradition and the proper literary use of the English language itself.

Later that year, he was appointed as the Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police and, before his retirement in 1931, introduced a number of changes to the force, including a system of promotion based on merit rather than length of service, improvement in discipline, retirement of inefficient senior officers, an irregularity to policemen's beats ( which had previously allowed criminals to work out the system ), police boxes, the extensive use of police cars, and a central radio control room.

On the one hand " art glass " is not quite of the size, uniqueness and scope to be considered as " art "-unlike glass art-but on the other, was designed or has come to be appreciated more for its decorative excellence, artistic merit or design distinctiveness than for any possible or originally intended use.

The Missouri Non-Partisan Court Plan has served as a model for thirty-four other states that use merit selection to fill some or all judicial vacancies.

Several figures of merit to describe the adequacy of step response are in common use.

The perspectives of those Jewish groups opposed to the use of intercessors is usually softer in regard to beseeching the Almighty alone merely in the " merit " ( skhut ) of a tzadik.

" They also praised designer Jo Mielziner's use of desert tones, projections, scrims, and lighting to create the atmosphere and mood of the desert Southwest, but found little else of merit in the show.

Therefore, people will use T / V deference entailment in 1 ) a first-order indexical sense that distinguishes between speaker / addressee interpersonal values of ' power ' and ' solidarity ' and 2 ) a second-order indexical sense that indexes an interlocutor's inherent " honor " or social merit in employing V forms over T forms in public contexts.

The advantage of being admitted into the university of Dublin will be very great to Catholics ; they need not be obliged to attend the divinity professor, they may have one of their own ; and would have a part of the public money applied to their use, to the support of a number of poor lads as sizars, and to provide premiums for persons of merit, for I would have them go into examinations and make no distinction between them and the Protestants but such as merit aught claim ".

Which nation to this time retains its position in those settlements, and has a very high character for justice and military merit ; now also they continue in the same scarcity, indigence, hardihood, as the Germans, and use the same food and dress ; but their proximity to the Province and knowledge of commodities from countries beyond the sea supplies to the Gauls many things tending to luxury as well as civilization.

The other use is in relationship to the merit of Ruth being an ancestor to King David, with the name again having same gematria as Brit, linking Davidic covenant with that of all previous, since Ruth was a Moabite by birth, and related to Noah also.

Sonar saw extremely limited use and was mostly tested in the Atlantic Ocean with few naval officers seeing any merit in the system.

No human understanding of the Bible can be so exhaustive and authoritative as to merit use as an “ instrument of doctrinal accountability .” Mainstream Baptists think it more prudent to leave every believer free to interpret the Bible according the dictates of a conscience that is guided by the Holy Spirit.

The DNA from the two families did not match, and so the study concluded that the famous Shawnee war chief was in fact a Native American and that the popular story surrounding his relatedness to Dutch settlers is without merit.

Some true crime works are " instant books " produced quickly to capitalize on popular demand, while others may reflect years of thoughtful research and inquiry and may have considerable literary merit.

* The play features an argument between Beverly and Laurence over the artistic merit of the memorable 1970s painting Wings of Love by Steven Pearson, popular yet controversial at the time due to its portrayal of a naked man and woman with a giant swan.

" This phrase, if it means anything whatsoever, would appear to mean that the appraisal of the novels shall be made not according to their actual literary merit but in obedience to whatever code of Good Form may chance to be popular at the moment.

The last manor house to occupy this park was built circa 1835, a large square brick stuccoed building of no particular architectural merit – old photographs show a slight Italianate influence in the design, a style later made popular by Queen Victoria at Osborne House.

Few women composers became more popular in the early 20th century than did d ' Hardelot, and her success was won on merit alone.

In popular culture, sets of precious substances may form hierarchies which express conventional perceived relative value or merit.

A popular, but unproven, etymology is an allusion to the merit badges obtained by Brownies for carrying out good deeds.

On occasion, a character or concept will appear in a series of one-shots, in cases where the subject matter is not financially lucrative enough to merit an ongoing or limited series, but still popular enough to be published on a regular basis, often annually or quarterly.

The popular derivation from the French “ barre à choir ” is without historical merit.

The series has since aired on the European version of Jetix and was popular enough to merit a few DVD releases in the region.

* Unique film schedule-Films are often shown on merit ( or on a whim ) rather than because they are new, with popular demand sometimes swaying the scheduling decisions.