thankworthy

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If thou lovest good scholars, this is not thankworthy in thee.

From The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 by Various

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)

And St. Peter says: “This is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief.”

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann

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

And to me, indeed, the services of Caius Caesar have always appeared the more thankworthy, in proportion as they were less to have been expected from a man of his age.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius