But through gross incapability of the government the majority of troops were never used, the militia suffering immensely through neglect and hunger.
Brought up in ignorance and isolation, finding rottenness and incapability everywhere, it was no wonder that the king became strongly imbued by the spirit of absolutism, which pervaded all Europe.
This incapacity of the eye must not be confounded with its incapability to comprehend a large portion of lateral space at once.
Some men finish from intense love of the beautiful in the smallest parts of what they do; others in pure incapability of comprehending anything but parts; others to show their dexterity with the brush, and prove expenditure of time.
Mercury is a perfectly opaque body, and its incapability of shadow is entirely owing to the perfection of its polished surface.
Hitherto, however, I have been speaking chiefly of the transparency of water as the source of its incapability of shadow.
But it is somewhat singular that the Newtonian principle, which your correspondent enunciates in conclusion, is the very cause of the incapability of shadow which he disputes.
The discussion respecting the Grotto of Capri is somewhat irrelevant, and I will not enter upon it, as thousands of laws respecting light and color are there brought into play, in addition to the water’s incapability of shadow.
I am most reluctant thus to transplant the thorns from my own pillow to yours, but sooner or later you must know it, and how else could I explain to you the incapability I am under of answering your letter?
I am far from surprised that, having seen what you have seen, and suffered what you have suffered, you should have opened your soul to a sense of our fallen nature; and the incapability of man to heal himself.
It has been said that this group of rocks is distinguished by its incapability of being separated into sheets.
Defn: Inability or incapability of enduring, or of being endured.
Defn: The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption.
Defn: The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.
Law) Defn: Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as, incapability of holding an office.
Defn: Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved; as, the infusibility of carbon.
He was, continues John Yeardley, six years in Kornthal, and seems to be sensible of the importance of the situation he fills, and of his incapability to be useful to others unless assisted by divine grace.
The quality of being incorruptible; incapability of corruption.
The quality or state of being irrefragable; incapability of being refuted.
This is also materially furthered by Kent’s opposition, which displays Lear’s moral incapability of resigning the sovereign power in the very act of disposing of it.
With this is combined a constant overflow of emotions from a total incapability of controlling them, and thence a waste of that energy, which should have been reserved for actions, in the passion and effort of mere resolves and menaces.
His sensitiveness was consequent on these, and so was his frequent incapability of continuous sedentary employment--an employment requiring far stronger health in an individual whose intellectual powers were ever at work.
Such incapability is declared by Scripture and tradition alike.
Incapability and ignorance in the act of being struggled against and cast away are often endowed with a peculiar charm--but both are only contemptible when they are pretended.
Inability orincapability of enduring, or of being endured.
That entire incapabilityof devising administrative measures for the management of large crowds, which is one of the characteristics of Englishmen in authority, is nowhere more strikingly exemplified than at York.
I thanked the great Karoo for his kind intentions, but declared my incapability to part with my wife, for that we were one flesh and blood, and nothing could separate us but death.
Or if Incapability Wood should threaten, in the event of the populace appearing, to produce from the Earl's pocket a surreptitious order on the Treasury for something like twelve thousand pounds?
He was not long in command of troops before he began abusing the staff for its preposterous orders, while the line officer assigned to the staff was soon talking about the incapability of the line to carry out his directions.
I approach no part of our fighting in France with a greater sense of incapability than the battle east of the Meuse--a separate battle, so influential in the fortunes of the main battle, which has never received its share of credit.
This is also materially furthered by Kent's opposition, which displays Lear's moral incapability of resigning the sovereign power in the very act of disposing of it.
