Joseph, three years younger, was like his father, but only on the defective side.
At first he defended his religion, but gradually was forced to admit one thing and another in Judaism to be defective and ridiculous; he was ashamed to be so thoroughly a Jew as to justify all consequences.
I have used the words "up to this time" advisedly, because I am aware upon how little the evil reputation of a gulch rests, and how prospectors deceive themselves by the character of their defective prospect holes.
Sometimes it happened that a first-rate robber was arrested and brought to trial, but from defectiveevidence escaped.
These were too much intermingled with less elementary ideas in consequence of my defective self-command from a dreadful nervous idea, and thus by interweaving they were overlapped and lost.
Not merely that they are disqualified by their defective execution, but often that they necessarily record what has become common property.
Were the foundations defective and subject to internal strain there could be little soundness in the superstructure.
Ergo, their plots are fatally defectiveand often result in ruin.
All over the world the idea of something complete and perfect is associated with even numbers, and of something imperfect and defective with uneven ones.
The more the present defective state of our scientific organization is commented on, the more likely is it to be remedied; for the patency of error is ever a sure prelude to its extirpation.
Illustration: As the Macquarie lay over on her starboard beams, her opposite side was raised, and the defective seams were out of water.
As the Macquarie lay over on her starboard beams, her opposite side was raised, and the defective seams were out of water.
The whole swiftly spreading enchantment of our varied arts and industries is making a garden out of a wilderness; and even the limited and defective education we now offer to our children, makes better people than we used to have.
Moreover, leaving our defectivebodies concealed by garments; what are those garments, as conducive to health and beauty?
The way they make this bread is as follows:--From large round panniers filled with wheat they take out a handful at a time, sorting it most carefully and expeditiously, and throwing every defective grain into another basket.
For nearly ten years his unwise advice and defective statesmanship, in the cabinet and in the parlor, led George the Third into many and grave errors, which finally resulted in the loss of the fairest portion of his American possessions.
This she did sometimes in a very confused manner, the irregularity of her finger-signs corresponding with that defective articulation which persons give utterance to, when they murmur and mutter indistinctly their dream-impressions.
In this new field of observation we find little to commend; defective training is the great cause of our inferiority in the practical performance of music, in all its branches.
With few exceptions, defectivetraining has, in this branch of the musical art, long prevented us from producing performers of equal celebrity with those who have visited us from the Continent.
On the one hand, the equipment was then sodefective that it crippled the powers of the mounted man in the most important points; on the other hand, the employment of the cavalry was conducted on a wholly antiquated system.
It is the root from which the disruption of Germany, the particularism and the defective patriotism of our nation, have grown up.
The sections of the people who have acquired a little superficial learning in the defective Russian schools have sworn to the revolutionary colours, or follow a blind anti-progressive policy which seems to them best to meet their interests.
But to comprehend fully the weight of this proof of their defective hæmatosis, it is necessary to bear in mind one of the great leading truths disclosed by comparative anatomy.
He also called attention to the fact of the defective action of the kidneys.
Defective sensibility" is something De Quincey is forever referring to, often to "depraved sensibility.
The lightly-built elastic houses of the country are capitally suited to withstand these storms; but roofs and defective houses are frequently carried away.
In their agricultural operations the people are industrious, although much labor is lost by the use of defective implements.
It is the same mistake which we frequently see among laborers whose vision has become defectivein one of their eyes, or one of whose eyes is temporarily bandaged.
The children of this couple were all mentallydefective and low-grade, morally as well as intellectually.
He married into a family that was much lower socially than his own, although we have no proof that it was a defective family.
Cases will undoubtedly be found where wealthy parents have worthless or defective children and grandchildren.
I believe that all other definitions of justice are defective mainly because other definitions such as those of Herbert Spencer in his book entitled "Justice" confound justice with liberty.
He points out that we cannot apply to superfluous or defective human beings the system of extirpation which gardeners apply to superfluous and defective vegetables and weeds.
Does this defective narrative of the Acts of the Apostles proceed from poverty of information, or from the arbitrary selection of materials for a special purpose?
It is unreasonable to suppose that a friend or companion could have written so unhistorical and defective a history of the Apostle's life and teaching.
It occasions a smart pain for a few seconds, when laid upon the defective tooth.
Lime-water with a little Peruvian bark is very good to be occasionally used by those who have defective teeth, or an offensive breath.
A lightning rod with defective insulation or broken ground connection is a danger rather than a protection.
His æsthetic sense, ruined with the idolatry of form, and unable to appreciate the thought, regards the Gospels as defective and rude through simplicity.
Such was Hume’s psychology; an attempt to push analysis to its ultimate limits; valuable in its method, even if defective in its results; a striking example of the acuteness and subtle penetration of its author.
Explanation of the defectiveview which would regard it only as reconciling man to God, and would destroy the priestly work of Christ; and statement of the modes in which its advocates reconcile it with Christianity.
Her missives, therefore, were very simple, and somewhat defective in outward form, but they suggested some interesting facts.
That he should become cold toward her, and cynical toward her world of wealth and fashion, was to her but a proof that his character was defective also, and led to the fear that his "absurd notions" might occasion trouble.
