And in controversies of this nature, there is unhappily a most perverse combination of the strongest conviction with an utter impotence to force that conviction upon another.
After the extinction of the house of Swabia, they were banished beyond the Alps: and their last coronations betrayed the impotence and poverty of the Teutonic Cæsars.
The emperor Isaac Angelus soon followed his son to the grave; and Mourzoufle, perhaps, might spare the superfluous crime of hastening the extinction of impotence and blindness.
Cobo's air of confidence and authority seemed to emphasize O'Reilly's impotence and bring it forcibly home to him.
He was beside himself now; a terrible feeling of impotence and despair overcame him.
He had led his people, with an incomparable skill and intrepidity, not unequally matched with the genius of Gladstone himself, from a position of impotence and contempt to the supreme point where success was within their reach.
Too late it became a commonplace observation in Ireland, when the impotence of the sordid sections was apparent: "How different it would all be if Parnell were alive.
We have here a fresh example of the wonderful impotence of the Persians.
Plans of Tissaphernes—impotence and timidity of the Persians.
It taught in the most striking manner the impotence of the Persian land-force, manifested not less in the generals than in the soldiers.
Angered at his own impotence to help her, he spoke more gruffly than his wont.
Jonas, groaning at his own impotence to drive the truth home.
For power and beauty on thine impotence Bestowed by fruitful Time's magnificence; For fruit of all things strong, and bloom of fair, Thou still art bare.
Must we behold, with eyes of impotence That universal wrack, even though it whelm These our usurpers in impartial doom Beneath the shards and fragments of the world?
It was this idea of impotence that exasperated him even more than the refusals of the hanging committee.
If it be true that my final impotence is due to that, well, after all, what does it matter?
After this terrible fever he fell into abominable despondency, spending a week of impotence and doubt, a whole week of torture, during which he fancied himself struck silly.
The Moslem heals such impotence by the usual simples, but the girl in the text adopts a moral course which buries the dead parts in order to resurrect them.
Such temporary impotence in a vigorous man, which results from an exceptional action of the brain and the nervous system, was called in old French Nouement des aiguilettes (i.
Virility is destroyed, andimpotence is quite common after a severe attack.
Drugs and treatments by quacks to cure impotence are impositions and fakes.
But this false Gallantry proceeds from an Impotence of Mind, which makes those who are guilty of it incapable of pursuing what they themselves approve.
Contempt and Derision are harsh Words; but in what manner can one give Advice to a Youth in the Pursuit and Possession of sensual Pleasures, or afford Pity to an old Man in the Impotence and Desire of Enjoying them?
I know not why Irresolution of Mind should not be more contemptible than Impotence of Body; and these frivolous Admirers would be but tenderly used, in being only included in the same Term with the Insufficient another Way.
His burning zeal and indignation against idolatry, and the scorn with which he exposes the impotence of false gods-- Cur etiam loca sola petunt frustraque laborant?
The thought of the insecurity of life, of the vicissitudes of human affairs, and of the impotence of man to control his fate, which forced the Greek poets and historians of the fifth century B.
That same sense of absolute impotence is one which we all, if we rightly understand what we need, must cherish.
So, eager desire after offered blessings and consciousness of my own impotence to secure them--these are the initial steps of faith.
There impotence reigns; there ideas have ceased--they have evaporated together with energy amongst the affectations of the boudoir and the cajolements of women.
Amongst old men it turns to vice; impotence tends to extremes.
Her eyes had the cold glitter of a caged tiger, knowing his impotence and being compelled to swallow his rage of destruction.
In fact, it is impossible adequately to explain the impotence of the Assembly which, according to ordinary English ideas, ought to be the source, seat and centre of all powers.
Mr. Goff, who reported this incident to the Commission, deplored the impotence to save the victim of the bondsman and the police.
If their impotence in parliament could no longer be doubted, they were now justified to limit their activity to outbursts of moral indignation.
It thereby resign its own powers; it decrees its own impotence and the omnipotence of the Army by committing itself to the private protection of a general.
His apprehensive indignation left no room for the common courtesies of even coffee-room life, he was seething with the angry sense of impotence before this critical and grievous position.
The prisoner laughed in the veryimpotence of his rage.
This self-impotence does not depend on the pollen or ovules being in an unfit state for fertilisation, for both have been found effective in union with other plants of the same or of a distinct species.
I could simply retire to my own apartments; but I did it in such a passion of wrath and impotence that I could have taken that stupid and credulous old woman by the shoulders and shaken her to reason.
This cooled me, even in the middle of my exasperation and the galling sense of impotence I felt.
