With less discretion than good-humor, Erskine gave countenance to the representations of his enemies by ridiculing his own unfitness for the office.
Cooper proposes, in view of the unfitness of the military courts for judicial investigation, that they be stripped of all jurisdiction in such cases: and his opinion strongly addresses itself to the legislative authority.
The answer then was, an exclamation ofunfitness to die, and a wish to live longer to get ready.
Ignorance and unfitness were, however, pleas which they had no business to make.
Indeed, Mr. McIlhenny's unfitness by training and experience for the delicate and important position which he is filling was one of the most generally admitted facts which I gathered in Haiti.
Under the first, much stress will be laid upon the "anarchy" which existed in Haiti, upon the backwardness of the Haitians and their absolute unfitness to govern themselves.
If she binds herself secretly to a man whose moral unfitness is objected to, she is courting certain misery and possible disgrace.
In foreign countries there are many superstitions as to the fitness or unfitness of days, times, and seasons; but in England May appears to be the only month supposed to be unlucky for weddings.
Alcoholism is a sign and a symptom of degeneracy and is a distinct indication of unfitness for parenthood.
We must concede, however, that in many instances the teacher's unfitness is a direct product of the pernicious system itself.
So long as young society women go into hysterics over pedigreed dogs and horses and then marry men reeking in filthyunfitness for parenthood, mothers cannot expect any other standard of morals.
In another note the author says: "Mr. Fox in his late harangue in the British House of Commons, in favor of more equal suffrage, concedes the unfitness of females to share in elections.
Although so much has been said of woman's unfitness for public life, it can be seen, from Semiramis to Victoria, that she has a peculiar fitness for governing.
In demanding a place in the world of work, the unfitness of her dress seemed to some, an insurmountable obstacle.
If at the expiration of one day from the publication of the last notice, no charges have been filed with the recorder alleging the applicants' unfitnessto marry, license shall be granted.
Such unfitness makes more probable an inheritance of low intelligence.
The unfitness of workhouses for the detention of the insane, and the evils attendant upon it, have been repeatedly pointed out by the Commissioners in Lunacy in their annual reports, and by several able writers.
Abstract of its contents:--unfitness of workhouses for lunatics, 75.
Huxley goes more at large into the question of unfitness for asylum admission, and the vigour and clearness of his remarks induces us to quote them at length.
It was this sense of unfitness for his work that made him fall back at first on the sermons of his student days, and which made the pulpit services, praised by his hearers, seem to him like a mockery.
He had wished as delicately as possible to rouse in Gwendolen a sense of her unfitness for a perilous, difficult course; but it was his wont to be angry with the pretensions of incompetence, and he was in danger of getting chafed.
Rash personal conduct which might be tolerated in a lieutenant would in a lieutenant- general be conclusive of his unfitness to hold any general command.
But many I met there fell by the way, not alone by the accidents of battle but because of unfitness for command or general inefficiency.
But a certain sense of unfitness or disinclination stopped me after a few sentences, and I did not again refer to my new friends; though I had been thinking a good deal of Constance Grey and her plain-faced, plain-spoken aunt.
And this proportion would be increased by the number who withdrew in advance from the consciousness of their unfitness for a position to which ambitious and influential friends had promoted them.
These will be probationary, and revocable in case the unfitness of the incumbents shall be demonstrated by practical trial in their work.
In the history of instruction at West Point, we have stated the total absence in the beginning, of text-books on some subjects, and the unfitness of those on others, even the common studies of Mathematics.
Justice, in her decisions, never regards the fitness or unfitness of objects to particular persons, but conducts herself by more extensive views.
Harrington Emerson, efficiency engineer, says that the average man is only twenty-five per cent efficient and that his inefficiency is due to unfitness for the work he is trying to do.
The almost universal cry for leisure is due to the almost universal unfitness of men and women for their tasks.
Unfitness for manual labor results merely in bare living, a life of comparative poverty, and general lack of success.
From this period on, the picture to be drawn of him is of a man retiring more and more into himself as his growing experience with the world shows him his unfitness for it.
There is a kind of ludicrous unfitness in the idea of a time-stricken and grandfatherly lilac-bush.
The consciously unfit rage and roar loudly; while the unconsciously unfit bestir themselves mightily to overturn the whole theory upon which the distinction between fitness and unfitness rests.
The cause of Milton's thoughts about divorce, in that case, must have been the agony of a deadly discovery of his wife's utterunfitness for him when as yet she had not been two months his wife.
This assertion that adultery is more venial than mentalunfitness is reiterated in another place, with a bold addition: "Adultery does not exclude her other fitness, her other pleasingness; she may be otherwise loving and prevalent.
The idea never occurred even to Henderson; and that it did not occur to him constituted his unfitness for leadership, out of Scotland, in the complex crisis which had at last arrived, and was the one weakness of his career near its close.
The husband was still left sole judge of his wife's fitness or unfitness for him, and whether he should exercise his right of putting her away was a matter finally for his private conscience.
Kurrachee Harbour, its present unfitness as a harbour, note, 264.
He goes on to protest his unfitness for the task and especially to defend himself against the charge that he had given Colet reason to believe he might accept his suggestion.
