A third of a million showed nervous and mental incapacity for the soldier's work.
Arnold had lighted his cigarette by this time, offered one to Page with his incurable incapacity to remember that not every sane man smokes, and on being refused, put his hands deep in his pockets.
As blankly inexperienced of painting and sculpture as any Bushmen, they received this sudden enormous dose of those arts with an instant, self-preservatory incapacity to swallow even a small amount of them.
As a record, however, of the incapacity of a Teutonic to rule a Celtic people against their own wish, his book is not without value.
Gospel; or whether, if we find ourselves in a state of incapacity to work through the Church, we can remedy the defect by the adoption of principles contrary to hers .
It is in fact the proof of incapacity for any large or deep view of human life to be habitually and zealously "patriotic" in the popular sense of the term.
And no less does he incarnate for ever its fatal incapacity for some political compromise.
And in consequence of this incapacity for perseverance, they soon forgot the lessons in medical science which they had once acquired from the Greeks, and have fallen back into a state of the most absolute ignorance.
What greater proof could be given of the incapacity of the Spanish court to learn the lesson which forty years had been teaching?
To have him thrust into teams of cricket and football from which his incapacity for all games naturally excludes him?
Another grievous tendency which grows on me is an incapacity for idleness.
Even the company itself seems to be convinced of its own incapacity so far, and seems, upon that account willing to give them up to government.
If any service is very much underpaid, it is very apt to suffer by the meanness and incapacity of the greater part of those who are employed in it.
For Caterina Ginori had the fame of a fair speaker, and Alessandro was aware of his own incapacity to play the part of a respectful lover.
Vitzthum d'Eckstaedt concludes his account as follows: "It was not for general incapacity that the Marquis d'Argenson was dismissed, nor for having forgotten one day to open the despatches from Genoa.
When he proved his incapacity both as commander-in-chief and as commander of his own force, Turkish jealousy against the quondam German flared forth; and early in October he was replaced by Suleiman.
We have been cheated by blockheads, robbed by people whose incapacity was even greater than their villainy.
We may add here that Murad soon showed himself to be a friend to reform; and this, rather than any incapacity for ruling, was probably the cause of the second palace revolution, which led to his deposition on August 31.
Even the encroachments of despotism on popular liberty must be attributed in no small degree to the incapacity of what should have been the ruling class at Rome.
His one serious weakness is his lack of constructive power and his incapacity to preserve due proportion between the parts of his satires.
The beginning of philosophy, at least with those who lay hold of it as they ought and enter by the door,[1] is the consciousness of their own feebleness and incapacity in respect of necessary things.
But their participation in public affairs has constantly been colored by racial or national affiliations, by a foreign outlook on life, and by incapacity to appreciate the true genius of the American nation.
The pretense of incapacityis impudent in its audacity, and yet it works.
Probably men alone could never have maintained the fallacy of masculine incapacity without the aid of women.
For our own sake we ought to throw off the pretense of incapacityand ask that we be given a half share in them.
It is assuredly no sign of weakness or incapacity that the nearest approach to that absolutism that he had set up as his ideal was made by him after his departure to take possession of the crown left him by Elizabeth.
Others reveal an utter incapacity to come near a subject, except as a strange external phenomena, like the essay on Love.
Before we were demobbed we had to undergo a medical examination to ensure that we couldn't make any post war claims for incapacity due to our service; at the same time we were asked what medals we were entitled to.
If a man dogmatize in a mixed company on Providence and the divine laws, he is answered by a silence which conveys well enough to an observer the dissatisfaction of the hearer, but his incapacity to make his own statement.
For notwithstanding our utter incapacity to produce anything like Hamlet and Othello, see the perfect reception this wit and immense knowledge of life and liquid eloquence find in us all.
No finer site in the world could be found, and none has been so wasted through incapacity to utilise it.
Considering the incapacity of the King, it is unjust to judge her harshly, if she strove with all her powers to save the crown imperilled by his feebleness.
