Word: merit
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are some translations which have almost the merit of original works, like Sir Thomas Urquhart's of Rabelais, for instance, but it is almost impossible that any foreigner should acquire that perfect intimacy with the niceties of a language which is essential to the thorough comprehension of an author and especially a poet. Both Tieck and Schlegal have mined very deep in the genius of Shakespeare, of his power and art they were among the first to form an adequate conception, and yet in their translation, where Macbeth says: "Here on this bank and shoal of Time," they give...
...shall merit it shall remain in the college until they shall respectively arrive at between fourteen and eighteen years of age; they shall then be bound out," etc. Progress in the school-room is deemed the only proper standard of merit, and all pupils who become fifteen years of age and fail to reach the fourth school, after from five to nine years' instruction, will be required to give place to those on the list of applicants for admission...
There are several good pieces of fiction in the number. "An Unconventional Detective Story," by L. W. Mott and Louis How, and "Pot Boiling," by H. C. Greene, are amusingly written and have the additional merit of originality. In this respect alone are they superior to E. G. Knoblauch's "Even in Cambridge." Several of the Kodaks are pleasing, but the few other articles are unimportant if not uninteresting...
...United States the civil law does not regulate in any way the entering of the clerical office. It imposes no examinations, and establishes no standard of merit as it does for admission to the bar. Of the three great duties of the clergymen, baptism, marriage, and the burial of the dead, the law only recognizes one, that of marriage, and this has been recognized only for about two hundred years. The first marriage of this kind in New England was performed in 1686. The question as to whether an ordained minister could unite himself in marriage to the woman...
...Kipling, there is a suggestion that the details of the chief character may have been taken from the works of that author. The remaining two stories, "An Undiscovered Sacrifice," by Felix Norris, and "The Murder," by W. T. Denison, are less interesting. They are of that rather negative merit which characterizes most college fiction, neither very good nor very...