thankworthy

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As yet we have only a most thankworthy preliminary study in Schürer's great work, and beside it particular or dilettante attempts which hardly shew what the problem really is, far less solve it.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

From Elsie Dinsmore by Finley, Martha

In our notes on Jerusalem we shall have, like the “devil” of The Two Songs, to look at it from the inverse side and pass upon it a more laborious and less thankworthy comment.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

If this friendly service appears to you to be thankworthy, you can repay it with like clemency when one of our brethren falls into your hands.'

From Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist by Velde, Carl Franz van der

It is thus a very thankworthy task to try to rescue something—the memory of interesting and important events, or the leading features and personages of some epoch—from the general shipwreck of the world.

From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)