| 单词 | imbecility |
| 例句 | She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z In his life, Donald wrapped himself in a kind of quiet that, depending on the observer, signaled imbecility or a reservoir of mystery. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He describes these instructors with pimples popping from their skins, fangs sprouting in their mouths, their tongues hanging out like those of dogs, their eyes crossed in permanent, girl-inspired imbecility. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z And Samuel Johnson, its chief tormenter, said that to discuss the play “were to waste criticism upon unresisting imbecility, upon faults too evident for detection, and too gross for aggravation.” Fiasco Theater Company Rides Shakespeare to Success 2011-09-02T19:00:54Z These “conventions for abstract thought,” as he called them, include a gaping mouth to stand for “dangerous brooding,” a pair of blank eyes for “imbecility” and two black whirlpools to represent fear. Art Review: ?Paintings of Charles Burchfield? at the Whitney 2010-06-24T21:53:00Z A year after that “triumphant election,” he was deriding the “pro-slavery interference of President LINCOLN” and the administration’s “helpless imbecility.” When Frederick Douglass Met Andrew Johnson 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z Rice, breaking away from the anti-intellectual imbecility of her political party, also lamented that great cultures are known for their “architecture and art,” but that America no longer cultivates widespread appreciation for creativity and ingenuity. We let the idiots take the wheel: Donald Trump, Fox News and how we let our democracy rot 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Optimism is not a sign of imbecility in such a situation, it's a necessity. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z Lee is a master of comic caricature and the Klan members offer scope for a full range of racist imbecility. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z But the question remains: How will we survive the mendacity and imbecility of American politics and the media that cover it without Jon Stewart? Jon Stewart doesn’t give a damn anymore: Why the “Daily Show” host has never been more watchable 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Cora, left behind when her mother escaped years earlier, lives in the plantation’s lowest shack, a place for the dying and insane, those flogged into imbecility and permanent disability. Oprah’s book club pick: ‘The Underground Railroad,’ by Colson Whitehead 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Rio Bravo suffers from a similar approach to polite imbecility. Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z It was a two-year process and somewhat complicated, and I watched him never get angry at anyone, never write 5,000-word emails lambasting the stupidity and imbecility of everyone. Tony Kushner, at Peace? Not Exactly. But Close. 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z It’s about the soul-draining imbecilities of office life at an organization that resembles the United Nations. Shirley Hazzard’s Stories Observe Pain and Disappointment With a Witty Intelligence 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z By constantly interrupting his fellow would-be presidential aspirants with a firehose of cocksure imbecilities, Ramaswamy captured the attention of the political chattering classes. Column: Vivek Ramaswamy's idiotic play for airtime is working, God help us 2023-08-31T04:00:00Z Those numbers are disappointing reminders that voters could definitely be smarter, of course, but it's not the slam dunk evidence of American imbecility that Republican politicians seem to think it is. SOTU fallout: Kevin McCarthy's Medicare face-plant 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The new show maintains the imbecility of the original, though some episodes, alas, have more developed plots. Your Thursday Briefing: U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind a Killing in Russia 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z Artistic expression and intellectual inquiry are replaced by a new dark age, the triumph of tawdry spectacle and the celebration of crowd-pleasing imbecility. We won't be the first civilization to collapse — but we may well be the last 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z And southern inferiority was no accident, he scoffed, for the “shameful imbecility of slavery” could never equal “the manifold and endless intellectual activity” that prevailed in Massachusetts. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z In 2008, imbecility ran for vice president on the Republican ticket. Liz Cheney stands up to mutiny, mendacity 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z This one was fondly remembered by the Salon staff as an iconic example of the way Trump's racism amplifies his imbecility in an almost exponential fashion. Remember that stupid thing Donald Trump did? Hard as it is to pick, here are the top 10 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z It is not merely Trump's ignorance and imbecility that creates a country unprepared and ill equipped to deal with a health problem, but the entire ideology that underwrites his incompetence. The right wanted to destroy the "administrative state": Coronavirus is why we need it 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z “As someone said, they seem to have been picked for their IQ: that’s to say their quotient of imbecility, inability, idiocy, incompetence, ineptitude or impiety.” 'Unqualified, dangerous': the oddball officials running Bolsonaro's Brazil 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, imbecility remains a key battleground, with debate over which party is fielding the more extravagantly or malevolently stupid candidates. Lurching and rambling, Boris Johnson is in charge. But he’s lost control | Marina Hyde 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z This GOP lawmaker gets the booby prize for moral imbecility. Opinion | 187 House Republicans have lost their moral compass 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s difficult to pick the craziest of the arguments that President Trump is making about the shutdown — there’s a vast buffet of imbecility to choose from — but here’s my good-faith effort. Opinion | Trump’s Five Craziest Arguments About the Shutdown 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z In a democracy, the frequent imbecility of decision-making is a vice we willingly live with because of democracy’s great virtue: its many and constant feedback loops that allow idiotic policies to be reversed or ameliorated. Opinion | A Kavanaugh Hearing Without Facts Would Be a Sham 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z He mortified them with tales of imbecility and treason. Opinion | Edwin Stanton Was Part of the ‘Resistance’—in 1860 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Reduce it to imbecility in the name of prettiness? Things that matter, in the words of Charles Krauthammer The attorney general bloviates, the DHS secretary parades her moral imbecility and the president deflects and denies. Immigrant children are real children 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Let us put aside the constitutional imbecility of forcing a child to read the Bible — at all. ‘Faith’ vs. Jesus’ example 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z And their withdrawal at this point would be an act of strategic imbecility. Opinion | Would you trust America? 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z He praised Buchanan’s policy unequivocally and contrasted it with the “imbecility” of his successor. Opinion | Edwin Stanton Was Part of the ‘Resistance’—in 1860 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z These collective failures demonstrated the “imbecility” of the Continental Congress and the Articles of Confederation. In terms of political stalemate and crisis, is today very different from the 1780s? 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z It allowed the state to sterilize 7,000 people “afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy.” Death of ‘a devil’: The white supremacist got hit by a car. His victims celebrated. 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Review: The surprisingly bearable 'Transformers: The Last Knight' displays Michael Bay's genius for imbecility » 'Transformers' breaks down at box office with $69-million debut 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Like few auteurs or hacks before him have managed, Bay has a genius for imbecility; he turns incoherence into its own form of hyperkinetic abstract art. 'Transformers: The Last Knight' is Michael Bay's robot-orgy swan song 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z “He mangles songs; his voice is flat; and his face is the epitome of pouting imbecility,” wrote a Post reader. One for the money, two for the show: Chasing down a long-ago love story 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Insanity or imbecility are the worst excuse to remain among the living if you kill. Supreme Court to Consider Legal Standard Drawn From ‘Of Mice and Men’ 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z So this was a heck of a time for a handful of acolytes to grab at his spotlight, some parroting the imbecilities of the Trump campaign. There’s no Bernie Sanders revolution without him 2016-07-30T04:00:00Z It disparaged the presidential nomination of Warren Harding as “the fine and perfect flower of the cowardice and imbecility of the Senatorial cabal that charged itself with the management of the Republican Convention.” The Left Loses Control 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Tony Blair, the prime minister who introduced the law, later berated himself for his naivety, saying he was an “irresponsible nincompoop...I quake at the imbecility of it.” A little less free 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z “If the motivation is immaturity and teenage imbecility, there ought to be alternatives available in all 50 states.” Prosecutors Weigh Teenage Sexting: Folly or Felony? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Today, any idiot with an ETrade account has instant access to a megaphone to broadcast his own imbecility. Hey, investment cranks: The Internet never forgets 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z That allowed the state to sterilize individuals “afflicted with hereditary forms of insanity that are recurrent, idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy.” How a long-dead white supremacist still threatens the future of Virginia’s Indian tribes 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z The Virginia Eugenical Sterilization Act, signed into law on March 20, 1924, declared that “heredity plays an important part in the transmission of insanity, idiocy, imbecility, epilepsy, and crime.” Va. General Assembly agrees to compensate eugenics victims 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “Neither ignorance nor imbecility can justify any person in establishing himself as a distribution centre of pestilence,” the editors wrote. Don't Make Vaccines a Partisan Issue After Christie Remarks 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z It can be an act of communal madness, reflecting the emotional imbecility of those who believe the best way to express joy at their ball team’s win is to overturn a car. Listen to the screaming in Ferguson 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z Too often, we bear witness instead to moral cowardice, to ethical imbecility that welds us to the unthinking mob like cows in a herd. Courageous or spineless? Our actions, or inactions, decide 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Unquestionably in cases of imbecility it is easier than in insanities to pass conclusive judgment on the inheritability of the condition in a large class of cases. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z It is true that there is occasionally a real “blockhead” among children, but such cases are quite as rare as imbecility and physical deformity. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z Mr. Hutton adored her for the virgin imbecility of the words. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z After having shown the imbecility of government, by which failure became inevitable, they stop as though their task was done. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z But the Government stooped to the imbecility of arraigning the author of the device. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z They have spread their ill-favored spawn over various of the central states in a veritable flood of imbecility and petty crime. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z Men were straining the vocabulary of imbecility to coin phrases for her. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z "The treachery, cowardice, and imbecility of the men in command has sunk our spirits at home and our character abroad." The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z We acknowledge, too, that the only reason why the deep tones of nature are not more audible, may be found in the imbecilities or transgressions of man. The Portland Sketch Book 2012-03-28T02:00:28.847Z The painter's strange, selfish life ended in imbecility, and the patient wife who had nursed the youth of twenty-three, soothed the last hours of the man of seventy, whose fame she had never shared. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z It is characterized by goiter, marked deformities and imbecility. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z The situation was only a foil to his imbecility. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z If a potent faith, it degrades to imbecility alike the teacher and the taught, by its abhorrent mercilessness; and if mere form instead of a faith, then is the Devil doctrine a misleading sham. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z The number who by reason of the same indulgence have brought on a degree of imbecility that may ultimately land them in the asylum or in the penitentiary cannot be reduced to an exact estimate. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z In addition to this very natural cause of dislike, these dukes had been rivals for that political power which the imbecility of Charles the Sixth placed within their grasp. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z The records of the inheritance of insanity, imbecility, feeble-mindedness and other forms of nervous and mental defects are truly startling. Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics 2012-05-22T15:16:53.140Z His features were imbecility itself, rendered almost horrible by the contrast of the cardinal's red cap. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z Less common are the following: mental hebetude, lasting some days or even weeks after the close of the last paroxysm, or, as in a case of Carter's, gradually increasing mental feebleness, terminating in imbecility. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but, by most thorough culture, relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity 2012-03-22T02:00:38.537Z Madame de Cochefor�t has spent this afternoon--thanks to your absence and your imbecility--with her husband. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z These early specimens of superior intellect are sometimes followed by a state of imbecility. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It was a melancholy chronicle of imbecility, and the book was suppressed, but there were two or three circumstances narrated in its pages which were interesting. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z So Azrael devised an odd sport for the man on the verge of imbecility. The Slaves of the Padishah 2012-03-06T03:00:24.060Z I can only pity men who exhibited such woful ignorance and imbecility as to be led away by misrepresentations that had not even the appearance of truth. The Trial of Henry Hetherington 2012-03-06T03:00:21.680Z No! our imbecility shall keep fast the door against any thing short of proofs that in the hyena a god is incarnated. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z The result of this erroneous management was a deficient development in their intellectual faculties, and a debilitated frame, which gradually led to a state of imbecility. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z As a rule where the patient has passed through the various stages of paranoia, dementia, with symptoms of imbecility, closes the scene. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z So understand, please, after this explanation, that I shall look upon any expression of gratitude from you as a glaring mark of imbecility, apart from which it will annoy me exceedingly.” Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z Only in a moment of imbecility could he have dreamed of resigning for this, the golden opportunities that the new world, opening before him, offered to all who had the courage to seize them. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z Such people as these are never pessimists, though they may be sinners; and they will be trusting, to the verge of what a real grown-up would call imbecility. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z “Unlimited scepticism,” Dugald Stewart observes, “is as much the child of imbecility as implicit credulity.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z We keep these unfortunates most of their lives in jail, while we fine their drunken fathers, the cause of the imbecility, "five dollars and costs." Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The use of such tests in discovering such departures and variants as idiocy, imbecility and general stupidity has been amply justified by experience with them. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Our hostess, after conducting us to her own apartment, relapsed into imbecility, and seemed little conscious of our presence. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z For all firm aid and steady use, we must look to harder realities; and, as far as the painter himself is regarded, we can only receive such work as the sign of an amiable imbecility. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Malt liquors render their victims heavy, stupid, and more obstinate than violent, and a long continuance in their use produces a state of imbecility, observed so early as Aristotle. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z In imbecility the fault is in the will, rather than in the intellect, in the middle and highest grades. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z The abatement is painfully just; but while Coleridge lived, this very indolence and moral imbecility added to the interest he excited, and gave a mystic splendor as of a divine inspiration to his mental performances. Transcendentalism in New England A History 2012-02-18T03:00:16.210Z The insurrection was evanescent; accompanied by much intermittent bravery on the part of the peasants, much imbecility on the part of the leaders, awful retribution on the part of the Hessians and squireens. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z But their kindness has been abused, their clemency regarded as evidence of imbecility, and the humane policy of the Government totally misconstrued. The Iron Furnace Slavery and Secession 2012-02-14T03:00:24.963Z Instead of being permitted to subside into hopeless imbecility, her lord must be aroused,--must be exhorted to tighten the cords of his nervous system, in preparation for a sudden strain. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The grades of imbecility can not be clearly marked off from one another, but, roughly speaking, there are three. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Let us test all these theories about marriage and divorce—all this sacramental, indissoluble imbecility, with a real case—with a fact in life. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z "It is the ultimate preserve of a privileged imbecility." Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z Children should not be taught the absurdities, the cruelties and imbecilities of superstition. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 2 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:51.557Z Volumes might be written upon the follies and imbecilities of great men. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z It does not shorten life so much as alcohol does, nor are the children of a person addicted to the use of the drug so liable to idiocy and imbecility. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Like every other eastern dynasty, they gradually sank into impotence and imbecility, and their throne was finally occupied by the renowned Koord Saladin. Secret Societies of the Middle Ages 2012-02-09T03:00:11.637Z His spell of imbecility had worn itself out. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z Ignorance is the only plea that can acquit them of the charge of imbecility. The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors Or, Christianity Before Christ 2012-01-19T03:00:18.027Z And it will be clearly shown, in the course of this investigation, that, as far as the principle contended for has prevailed, it has been the cause of incurable disorder and imbecility in the government. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z More mortified than ever by my own imbecility, I turned from them all, uttering some impatient reflection on the inattention of my hostess. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z They were afterwards to reunite for a time by the mutual attraction of brains opposed to imbecility. Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections 2012-01-02T03:00:18.893Z I dimly recognise this great truth, and hence hold more to a present imbecility than to a too eager efficiency. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z She found her father in a pitiable state of total imbecility. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us: Our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. The Crisis of Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-One In The Government of The United States. Its Cause, and How it Should be Met 2012-01-12T03:00:13.627Z The old man stood by with a wandering look, as if stricken with sudden imbecility; but his bolder companion regarded the furious visitor with absolute sang-froid, fixing upon him a glance that never wavered. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z After two hours of this sort of imbecility the troupe found itself consuming ices in Bond Street, having become possessed so far of two bath-mats and a waste-paper basket. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z I never knew his equal for a manly force competent to itself in every emergency and seeking none of the ordinary subterfuges that men so often seek to hide their imbecility. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z The patient or his relatives may be reduced to a sufficient state of imbecility to seek the aid of the church's pretended miracle system or of some of its holy relics. Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice 2011-12-24T03:08:02.973Z The unfair efforts that Christians have been putting forth to drag Lincoln into their waning faith betray a pitiable imbecility. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z Philip IV., and Charles II., pursued the same course, stimulated by similar fanaticism and imbecility, when the re-union of Portugal to Spain led to the discovery of many Jews. The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. 2011-12-22T03:00:10.443Z Philip, who had lived in serious company hitherto, and had no idea that grown-up people ever descended to imbecility of this description, began to like this strange gentleman. A Knight on Wheels 2011-12-24T03:08:07.830Z But it is certain he will never recover from his imbecility. The Herriges Horror in Philadelphia A Full History of the Whole Affair. A Man Kept in a Dark Cage Like a Wild Beast for Twenty Years, As Alleged, in His Own Mother's and Brother's House 2011-12-14T03:00:19.043Z Only one thing saved Mrs Vane from falling into hopeless fretfulness or helpless imbecility—this was the constant presence of her eldest and dearest child, Selina. Frederica and her Guardians The Perils of Orphanhood 2011-12-05T03:00:50.157Z When she floundered in a French verb, or came to dire grief in compound fractions, the imbecility provoked no laughter; it bore a sort of gilded pardonableness, like the peccadillo of a princess. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Had he been able to speak, he would have asked idiotic questions, of that special breed that exact from their victim a reply of equal imbecility. In Mr. Knox's Country 2011-11-21T03:00:16.010Z This great Government, one of the most powerful on the face of the globe, is falling to pieces just from its own imbecility. The Life of Lyman Trumbull 2011-11-20T03:00:11.243Z You know these Anglo-Saxons are always chivalrous to the verge of imbecility. The World Masters 2011-11-18T03:00:31.543Z Dramatically, I confess to some impatience over the imbecility of the girl. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Probably in disgust at the ingratitude and imbecility of his flock, Recafred embraced the creed of Islam, and died cursed and abominated by the people whose utter extinction he had averted. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z Although his clothes clung to his skin he was making violent, meaningless gestures as he ran, and appeared to be gibbering or muttering something as if in that stage of fright which borders on imbecility. 'As Gold in the Furnace' A College Story 2011-11-07T02:00:16.163Z She had, however, not yet reached the stage of imbecility which her Yammakka sister had attained. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z One may have freinds, who have a will To further his felicity, And yet be wanting to him still, Because of imbecility, In power and ability. Divine Songs and Meditacions (1653) 2011-10-29T02:00:17.500Z To avoid the inevitable conclusion of his logic as just stated, Hamilton erected the subterfuge of mental imbecility. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z They would rave over any imbecility rather than not be in the latest fashion—rather than not be thought clever enough to find a meaning in things that had no meaning. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z Men were seen here in all stages of idiocy and imbecility from the effects of starvation. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z Chevy Chace there is not much of either bombast or affectation, but there is chill and lifeless imbecility. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z It was saved by the imbecility and disunion of the hostile powers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Each is inconceivable; and the inconceivability of each is referable to the same cause, namely, mental imbecility. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Such a plan of superstition, as far as it obtains credit in the world, subjects mankind to sacerdotal empire; which is erected on the imbecility of human nature. Reason, The Only Oracle of Man Or a Compendius System of Natural Religion 2011-10-12T02:00:53.110Z Without knowledge or the means of obtaining it, the mind of man necessarily falls into a state of weakness and imbecility. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z Pope Celestine was elected solely on account of his ignorance and mental imbecility. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z Fortune appeared to favour him in all he undertook; and even Q. Metellus, with a large army, could produce no effect,—a failure that was attributed to the age and imbecility of that illustrious veteran. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z They cannot be known, because of mental imbecility. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z "I don't see where the imbecility comes in, much less what can happen now," said Denis, encouragingly; as he spoke, he loosened the severed coil, and the late captive stumbled stiffly into the open. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z But it is only a person well acquainted with the House of Commons at this period who could believe that Mr. Canning's defence of such ministerial imbecility received enthusiastic applause! Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:34.837Z Although the desire of perfection is a natural and noble one, yet she has established laws by which alone it is to be obtained, and punishes the aggressors of them with deformity and imbecility. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z The imbecility of the king, owing to circumstances formerly noticed by us, as well as the horrors of a ruinous war, must also be ascribed to the dictatorial conduct of Queen Charlotte. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z If man can know nothing because of mental imbecility, why suppose that he has a mental faculty at all? Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z "The imbecility of Charles IV., the vileness of Ferdinand, and the corruption of Godoy were undoubtedly the proximate causes of the calamities which overwhelmed Spain." Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 2011-09-23T02:00:21.947Z A number of onlookers at the game may have seen the little side-plays of the Indian, but they only grinned at each other over the hopeless imbecility of the young man from Chicago. Taking Chances 2011-09-21T02:00:36.667Z Unprecedented and fabulous were indeed the events of those crazy February days, when the wisdom of the wisest was brought to naught, and the chosen ones of imbecility were raised aloft in triumph. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z While these base deeds were being accomplished, no thoughts were bestowed upon the people's wretchedness, which stood in dread array against ministerial imbecility. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Not that Bosch is remarkably erudite, but nevertheless he contrives to reduce me to a state of imbecility, which I catch myself noting with a pained surprise. Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z I have full as much contempt of their imbecility, as they can have of my insanity. The Wanderer (Volume 4 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:32.663Z Worlds seem to have a longer infancy taken out of the progress of their duration, even than the long imbecility of the childhood of poor mortals. The Wanderer (Volume 1 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:27.667Z That the letters were written and received is unquestionable; but it is doubtful whether folly and imbecility or a wish to hoax and mystify, directed the pen. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The king was evidently declining in health, and strong signs of imbecility were apparent. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z Are not you ashamed, at your age, to attach any faith to such imbecilities, and to have the impudence of coming here with such yarns to me? The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Till at last one sees the southern Holy Family as an unholy triad of imbecility. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The voevodas lost their heads, and did not even try to restore order; and the imbecility of the general militia appeared as clearly as on the palm of the hand. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z The sarcasm and indignation are for the English selfishness; the scorn for Irish imbecility and weakness. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z But this was only the commencement of the reign of imbecility and Germanism. Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte 2011-10-01T02:00:31.450Z The deadly monotony of the occupation drives him either to imbecility or desperation. Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club 2011-08-20T02:00:11.973Z One principle, covetousness of the attainment of power, has nevertheless constantly predominated, and has derided and endeavoured to stigmatize as weakness and imbecility, the stopping short of great acquisitions, territorial especially, for moral considerations. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z This was supposed to be merely a fresh proof of his imbecility, and the lady escaped. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z She would have been as arbitrary in her conduct as Elizabeth, but that her actions were restrained by the imbecility of her mind. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z She nurses him, and buries him after two years of "complete imbecility." Romney 2011-08-02T02:00:24.233Z In Cuts 'Is An Offer You Can't Refuse' “I agree with you, Agustino- at least so far as to say that there is some serious imbecility in the...” Amazon Beats Top And Bottom Line Despite Falling Profits 2011-07-26T20:30:04Z And if it is a choice of imbecilities, we would prefer to believe in the lunacy of ghost-seers rather than in that of the dead, our dead. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z It stands clearly revealed as "a monstrous crime, man's crowning imbecility and folly." Religion and the War 2011-07-18T02:00:22.307Z The acme of imbecility seems to be reached when the lady asks if Mr. L. plays any instrument? John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 2011-07-10T02:00:25.223Z Put morality and the 's phone-hacking imbecilities to one side for a moment, parked on a shelf marked "Unacceptable, Deplorable Ordure". News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary 2011-07-09T23:06:14Z Yet if I know anything of my fellow-creatures, you are in a fair way towards perpetrating that identical suicidal imbecility. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z They destroy their reason, the principal instrument of human emancipation, and reduce them to imbecility, the essential condition of their slavery. God and the State 2011-07-02T02:00:10.230Z These symptoms may be present in a variety of degrees, and in advanced cases even imbecility or paralysis may ensue. A Statistical Inquiry Into the Nature and Treatment of Epilepsy 2011-06-21T02:00:28.890Z With regard to mental deficiency, we think it possible to formulate precise definitions which will enable all competent persons to agree as to the diagnosis of idiocy, imbecility, and feeble-mindedness. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z A quick, generous imagination, feverishly excited, will project theories of character and intention far more ridiculous and uncomplimentary to humanity than the lowest surmises of ignorance and imbecility. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z Why, therefore, hastily brand them with the imbecility of being unequal to a fair, common-sense estimate of the adequacy of causes to produce observed effects? Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z If I thought it possible for me to sink again into imbecility so ignominious, I should be disposed to kill myself. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z Her attainments, indeed, were suitable to the imbecility of her sex; but did she not surpass in those attainments, the ordinary rate of women? Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z No doubt every doctor, especially if he is an alienist, is called upon to estimate the intellectual level of children, and to sign certificates of idiocy, imbecility, and feeble-mindedness. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z Session after session presents one unvaried waste of provincial imbecility.' The Viceroys of Ireland 2011-05-24T02:00:11.197Z In persons of a superior type, the condition is mainly due to moral causes, although physical imbecility has some share in facilitating the result. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Slavery lies at the root of all the shame, poverty, ignorance, tyranny and imbecility of the South; slavery must be thoroughly eradicated; let this be done, and a glorious future will await us. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z It is hopeless to reckon how far the timid, the perverse, or the malignant irrelevance of human remarks will go; to set bounds to the incompetence or devise landmarks for the imbecility of men. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Tendency to diseases of the nervous system, such as epilepsy, imbecility, idiocy, deaf-mutism, paralysis, and various cerebral affections. e. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z And all the time we know As small grains fruit in small grains, even man In fifty matters of pathology Transmits what’s in him, blindness, imbecility, Hysteria, susceptibilities To cancer and tuberculosis. Domesday Book 2011-04-30T02:00:13.397Z A son was born to the couple, but he brought no joy, for as he grew up he developed an infirmity of intellect amounting almost to imbecility. The Lure of the Camera 2011-04-27T02:00:25.413Z It converts the energy of a community into indolence, its power into imbecility, its efficiency into weakness. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z With the imbecility of the timid and the erring, she took too much time in a fruitless and unintelligent search before she went, trembling, into the house. Loveliness A Story 2011-04-27T02:00:23.450Z The conventional notion associating idiocy and imbecility with quantitative deficiency of the forebrain only is, as Spitzka remarked, a very imperfect one. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z I extract this beautiful passage, my boy, from the forthcoming speech of a fat Congressman, who is a friend to the human race, and charges the Administration with imbecility and with mileage. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z That sort of tenderness which makes us useless, may indeed be pitied and excused, if owing to natural imbecility; but, if it pretends to loveliness and excellence, it becomes truly contemptible. Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady 2011-04-19T02:00:19.607Z Scan it well, Messieurs lords of the lash, and learn from it new lessons of the utter inefficiency, and despicable imbecility of slavery. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z This is, however, as palpably imbecility as anything they could do, and one symptom, when a leading one, is as good as ten thousand. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z It is not difficult to perceive the relation existing between a defective brain weight, paucity of the gyri, deficiency of properly developed cortical cells and such an elementary form of mental aberration as simple imbecility. Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results 2011-05-02T02:00:17.657Z Little Dorrit, commenced in 1856, dealt with imprisonment for debt, the contrasts of character developed by wealth and poverty, and executive imbecility, idealized in the Circumlocution Office. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z A mild imbecility may be an enviable dower, now and then in life. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z In the former, wealth, intelligence, power, progress, and prosperity, are the prominent characteristics; in the latter, poverty, ignorance, imbecility, inertia, and extravagance, are the distinguishing features. The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z “I am a fool,” I said, overwhelmed by my imbecility and want of spiritual understanding. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z His faith in the dignity of man is paradoxically associated with a realisation of his weakness and imbecility: Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z The most prejudiced, on perusing the work, must be convinced of its imbecility as a satire, and its insipidity as a poem. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The Quarterly in March of the same year in which it appeared said: “The last wiggle of expiring imbecility appears in these days to be a volume of personal Reminiscences.” Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z Surely in his remark on that old man's imbecility he could not be supposed to insinuate anything against the sanity of the others! Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Accordingly, when we look to Lord John Russell's manifestoes, we are quite delighted with their imbecility. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Protestants, and above all, philosophical Protestants, regard transubstantiation as the most signal proof of extreme impudence in monks, and of imbecility in laymen. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z The difficulties of his position do not excuse his own imbecility; and while the paralysis of the nation was complete, he was himself deficient in the manly virtues of a sovereign. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z The formidable imbecility of the Senate rivaled the fantastic irritability of the President. Psycho-Phone Messages 2011-03-27T02:00:12.363Z You have time, let me tell you, to have your own opinion of the imbecility of setting one highly civilized man down in filth and degradation to shoot at others. Home Fires in France 2011-03-22T02:00:24.093Z And then the clergy, or at least a part of the clergy, committed another imbecility—they rallied to the Third Estate. The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z They have other persons in power under them, and these latter again have underlings, who enrich themselves with the spoils of the poor man, fatten themselves with his blood, and laugh at his imbecility. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Am I to sit still and witness another wreck in our unhappy family through your weakness and imbecility? The Haute Noblesse A Novel 2011-03-10T03:00:50.577Z Stupid humanity! we weld and weld With the vile toil disease beyond reclaiming, And imbecility, and discontent, Murder, and hate that sets the mansion flaming, Bloody revolt and heavy punishment. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z Here was Viscount Verney with, as respected Cleve, the issues of life very much in his fingers, dropping through sheer imbecility into the coarse hands of that odious attorney! The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z I visited him in prison, but he did not know me—he only stared at me with a look of stupid imbecility. Sharing Her Crime 2011-03-04T03:00:54.907Z He is evidently in the last stage of imbecility. Mrs. Geoffrey 2011-02-27T03:00:29.460Z From that time my memory returned, and with it so acute a feeling of what I had lost, that I fear I was ungrateful enough to regret my imbecility. A Wife's Duty A Tale 2011-02-17T03:00:19.313Z He hated and despised the voluptuousness, the imbecility, and the tyranny of the effete monarchy. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z He was a pious young man, simple to the verge of imbecility; a little later he developed actual insanity, the heritage of his grandfather Charles VI. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z I'm just beginning to realise my capacity for imbecility. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Through the imbecility of my superior officer, I lost the chance of a triumph calculated to have given me considerable fame; while Mexico missed finding an avenger. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Similarly, men think that this doctrine in some way jars with the actual lethargy and actual imbecility of men in their corporate action. The French Revolution 2011-02-10T03:00:50.577Z The applicant, Kitty explained, would be granted exemption if suffering from imbecility, extreme feeble-mindedness, any form of genuine mania, acute, intermittent, chronic, delusional, depressive, obsessional, lethargic.... What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z No great loss you 'll say, if the four or five smooth-faced imbecilities we have spoken of are not to the fore! The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z No, without doubt; but the grace of God comes in to their assistance, and sustains the imbecility of Nature and Reason. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine 2011-01-31T03:00:14.710Z Ever since there have been phases of stupid imbecility, alternating with violent mania. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z Don Luis Perenna had begun to read in emphatic tones, bringing out the imbecility of the words and the triteness of the rhythm. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z I have long discharged an office which I must soon quit at the call of nature, and shall rejoice in the hour of imbecility and pain to devolve it upon thee.’ Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z A judge of the United States Court was once displaced on account of mental imbecility. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z I ate up every purple adjective sacrificed to the cause of telling the story, including this gem from coach Raymond Domenech, who described his rebellious team as “an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name.” Celizic: Euro-whining makes this Cup loads of fun 2010-06-22T20:07:00Z Domenech himself called the strike “an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name” on Monday. Minister reduces French Cup players to tears 2010-06-22T13:03:00Z Domenech himself called the strike "an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name" on Monday. Bachelot reduces French World Cup players to tears 2010-06-22T13:12:00Z I tried to convince the players of the foolishness, their imbecility and the unprecedented stupidity of what they were about to do. Domenech rounds on player revolution 2010-06-21T22:23:00Z "I tried to convince them that what they were doing was an aberration, an imbecility, a stupidity without name," Domenech said Monday. Domenech criticizes French players over protest 2010-06-21T19:07:00Z She went out of one strong convulsion into another for many hours; and then sank into a lethargic unconsciousness, which terminated in mental and bodily imbecility, which ended, in less than twelve months, in death. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 The agony of grief subsided into a stupor approaching imbecility. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 Yet in the coloring and youthful contour of that round little head lay a charm, which was not lessened even by an evident trace of absent-mindedness, or downright imbecility. A Divided Heart and Other Stories Amen′tia, imbecility from birth, especially when extreme; idiocy. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide This task performed, he sank into a total imbecility both of mind and body, which continued for two years, till his death in January 1782. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" He tried to speak further, but in vain; then, looking around the hall, he broke into a senseless laugh, and fell on the floor of the platform in a state of imbecility. The Man Who Rose Again All admitted the justice of this measure but some opposed it on the ground of the physical imbecility of the colonies—already crowded with a hireling army and their shores lined with a powerful navy. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution With the gesture, he threw away all imbecility, and followed the inexorable call of some impulse which he could not yet fully understand, but which was neither vague nor haphazard. The Key to Yesterday All I can say is, that I hope they will like the trap into which their own patent-leather-headed imbecility has led them. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 26 1890 It is easy to talk of a Flora Indica, and Thomson and I do talk of it, to imbecility! Springtime and Other Essays He had actually appeared on a public platform in a state of drunken imbecility. The Man Who Rose Again About this time the cowardice and imbecility of General Hull tamely surrendered to the British the important post of Detroit, with the gallant force which composed its garrison. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The time of the Ashtarkhanides had been for the most part a time of dissolution and decay; fanaticism and imbecility went hand in hand. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Know you not that human imbecility in those identical comments reaches its absolutely 'lowest deep' of abject folly and crazy inconsequence. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 93, September 10, 1887 The kind of coyness which she had displayed had been the very infatuation of feminine imbecility. Ayala's Angel But what solace is there for him whose reverses spring from childlike weakness and imbecility,—whose life becomes the plaything of parasites and flatterers! Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) Any specially peevish or weakly baby was regarded as a changeling, the word coming at last to be almost synonymous with imbecility. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" I pause for a reply, but knowing the anserous, venomous imbecility of the vermin who infest the turf, I think it will be a long time before I get one. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 31, 1890 Charadchambeul returned perfectly furious, vehemently exclaiming that we had induced him to commit an imbecility in giving up the jars to the ambassador, who had presented him with nothing in return but empty words. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 And the old Captain followed her, glancing about him in a mild imbecility of astonishment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 On the walls were innumerable flashlight photographs of famous suppers, suppers that had reduced potential judges and incipient statesmen to helpless imbecility. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle The territory which in 1658 they had slowly gained by undaunted and obstinate bravery, they as rapidly lost in 1796 by imbecility and cowardice. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" The handkerchief performance seemed a fair example of the unreasoning, futile, incredible imbecility of the whole theory and practice. Within Prison Walls being a narrative during a week of voluntary confinement in the state prison at Auburn, New York He found his step-mother in a state of desperation bordering on imbecility. Maximina And, so far as I can see, it is our own imbecility of mind that prevents us from accepting this assurance and living in the joy and strength it brings. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I Thus the Connecticut act provides that loss of sight, the loss or paralysis of certain physical members, and incurable imbecility or insanity, resulting from the accident shall be "considered as causing total incapacity." Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman And then, again, I laughed at my folly of the imagination, and cursed that clairvoyant of Bond Street, who made a living by trading upon the latent imbecility of human nature. Bye-Ways Laughing at the imbecilities of a common friend one day, somebody observed, "It was very surprising; and Tom D —— knew him very well, and thought him far from being a fool." Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 When its imbecility led to civil war, the courage, patriotism, and persistency of the people sufficed to purchase victory; and though the Government was tasked heavily, its tasks were of a simple kind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 Had he not on the moment believed, he would have doomed himself to permanent and hopeless imbecility. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I But this cowardly imbecility was most extensively represented in the Frankfort Assembly. Revolution and Counter-Revolution or, Germany in 1848 "You've been at the Exhibition, Mr Silky," said Mrs Greenwood, recalling him from the state of mental imbecility into which he was fast sinking. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 A horrible sight they presented, their once smart uniforms filthy with blood and grease, their faces lolling with intoxicated imbecility, their speech thick and their legs tottering. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising Neither are the assassins the most to be feared,—the sudden collaring by the iron hand of the law reduces them to temporary imbecility. Paris From the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 2 It is a record of naval imbecility," said the captain; "there is no reason why our expedition cannot at least touch the 85th degree. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar He sang, with accompanying action, some dozen verses of doggerel, remarkable for obscenity and imbecility. The Night Side of London Its rulers have usurped despotic powers, and the people have been sunk in utter imbecility, or have looked upon life as a May-day game, and nothing more. About London All such ideas she looked upon as imbecility, and scorned. The Galaxy, May, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—May, 1877.—No. 5. Every one knows that America was lost in consequence of the imbecility and selfish views of the commanders, whom the corrupt system of government in Great Britain had raised to the head of affairs. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 He would have entertained even graver doubts could he have witnessed a still further stage of imbecility into which I lapsed. A Frontier Mystery Graves, the landlord, laughed as he hurried down the street, and told me that the poor wretch had been for two years in the county almshouse, at times helpless from imbecility. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Piety is the childhood of the soul: on the very verge of imbecility it spreads a mild and gentle lustre over the presence and bearing. Black Forest Village Stories No! our imbecility shall keep fast the door against anything short of proofs that in the hyena a god is incarnated.... Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) During peace, influential imbecility is constantly rising to the head of affairs, and the consequences immediately appear on the first breaking out of hostilities. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Wholly intolerable state of affairs if science and technology indeed subject to political imbecility. The Brain The poor, persecuted, weather-beaten Huguenots of France, had been active in plans of Colonization for escape from the mingled imbecility and terrorism of Charles IX. Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania He was not far from imbecility, and had to be transferred to the hospital. Black Forest Village Stories But his being there gave the conversation a turn to progress and ideal subjects, and Carlyle was fluent in invectives on all our 'rose-water imbecilities.' Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) The patients lived in hopeless imbecility until their death. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Claudius, her son, never ceased to stand in awe of her, and during his childhood her severity to him was such that it is supposed that it helped to induce his imbecility. Roman Women No monument they can raise will be so eloquent of their imbecility and his genius.' An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The old pews and galleries in the choir, which had hidden the very capitals of the piers, were indeed removed, but with them the medieval stalls were destroyed and replaced by work of indescribable imbecility. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Besides, some of the more prominent and elder authors still persevere in their sad mournful silence, while others have sunk from a state of patriotic gloom into mental imbecility. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 "He will have one qualification rare in an English foreign minister,—daily growing rarer, thanks to the imbecilities of examinations: he knows how to bow and he knows what to say." A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June The era of feminine imbecility and cowardice is passing away, and in its place we see about us a new age of well-rounded, exalted womanhood. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The badly fed or underfed baby quickly departs from the normal; imbecility, crime, pauperism all are directly or indirectly due to the lack of food or its poor quality during the plastic years. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 If the eagle is one of the striking emblems of power, he is also upon occasion, as before remarked, a specimen of decided and almost pitiable imbecility. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 Blessed gift of imbecility! how infinitely more pleasurable to its possessor than all the qualities and attributes of genius! The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life And from that impersonal view-point I would wonder if my brain had already crumbled to madness and imbecility. The Portal of Dreams Even when the moral and intellectual imbecility and dependence were at their height, the great mass of the people remained uncorrupted and unperverted. The Pictures; The Betrothing Novels The too great profusion of them protracts the imbecility of childhood. Coelebs In Search of a Wife My poor grandmother believed me devoid of reason, the retainers at the castle, the courtiers, and later the King himself amused themselves with the imbecility of Yvon the Calf. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium Disgusted at such imbecility, the deputy stalked away from the sheriff, leaving the latter with his mouth open, and utterly obsessed. Our Southern Highlanders There is something abhorrent from every sentiment in man's breast to see, as we too often do, imbecility advanced to high places by the mere accident of high birth. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) And, as fearful imagery is associated with the weakness of fever, so it seems to me that imbecility and love of terror are connected by a mysterious link throughout the whole life of man. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) But his imbecility and unmanly terror in the moment of danger, had been too conspicuous. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 And not many days after he was to be observed in a state of smiling and lop-sided imbecility, the Casco ribbon upside down on his dishonoured hat. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) But what he did not exaggerate and what weighed him down much more than the suffering of the world was the imbecility of it all. Pierre and Luce To open the mind to unreserved communication, is imbecility; to cover it with a vail, to dissever its internal workings from its external manifestations, is dissimulation and falsehood. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 His forte lay in old men, his pictures of whom, in all their characteristics, passions, infirmities, cunning, or imbecility, was perfect. Old and New London Volume I Peradventure, it was the mate-boy of the cook who is of an imbecility past understanding, owing to his extreme youth. Banked Fires And this imbecility how plainly we witness before the scene finally is closed. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition "The Jesuits," he said, "were grenadiers de la folie, and united imbecility with the vilest passions." The History of Freedom They accuse him of imbecility in not rendering this reason more perfect. Letters to Eugenia or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices Insignificance, imbecility, childhood, dotage, want of moral character; in fine, every defect serious or laughable unite to hold up the hereditary system as a figure of ridicule. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 Drowning men catch at straws, and the spectacled visage of the auctioneer, as he clings wildly to his rostrum, is a perfect study of terrified imbecility. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. Even if we overlook the time antecedent to birth, how complete is the imbecility of his The whole cycle must be included, early days! History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition I'm an hour before my time," I replied, then continued, exasperatedly: "Chief, I hope this latest imbecility will convince you that you ought to turn him in. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 So I try to keep up my strength, and I work as much as I can to save my mind from imbecility. Home Life of Great Authors This wax-work order has assumed the name of aristocracy; and the disgrace of it would be lessened if it could be considered only as childish imbecility. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 There was nothing to be made of them, Cervantes thought; and nothing to be done, but to laugh off what they had left, among living Spaniards, of pompous imbecility or mistaken pretensions. Spenser The East and the West had equally displayed the imbecility of ecclesiastical rule. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition The profession of faithfulness we hail with pleasure: the imputation of imbecility we accept with unconcern. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford They believe the famine is owing to the imbecility, or worse, of the government. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital Had no injurious consequences arisen from the conduct of that Administration, it might have passed for error or imbecility, and been permitted to die and be forgotten. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 The intrepid Marshal Biron disgraced his exit by womanish tears and raging imbecility; the virtuous Erasmus, with miserable groans, was heard crying out, Domine! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 All sadness, all "these imbecilities" were gone, only a strong, quiet feeling of life warmed his limbs. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 If we are shocked too severely, we become totally and permanently impaired, and suffer violent fits and fearful rages, insanity or imbecility. Tyranny of God I know nothing in the shape of error so dark as this, no imbecility so absolute, no treachery so contemptible. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) If the former decides, and the latter does not perform, it is a state of imbecility; and if the latter acts without the predetermination of the former, it is a state of lunacy. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 What that period was, to what a blank of imbecility the human mind had fallen, can only 16 be known to those who have waded in the chronicles. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) You would despise in a common banker the imbecility that you expect to find in us.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 4 (of 25) Austin is a very good-looking man, apparently about 40 years of age; and though, beyond doubt, mentally enfeebled, has no betrayal of such imbecility in the expression of his face. Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign "It is true," answered the Elder,—"the Fates are against us: I know of nothing more fatal than imbecility." The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 To care for imbeciles without increasing imbecility, and to care for criminals on the basis of the prevention and decrease of crime, are among the most vital questions of modern social life. History of Human Society I have heard of his behaviour, however, which was worthy of his former imbecility. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II This is the reason of the frequency of nervous disease and imbecility among the opulent, as intermarriages among near relations are more frequent with this class than among the poor. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Consider the essential imbecility of allowing the nation’s life and the nation’s thrift to be preyed upon for profit in this way! New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism The want of general benevolence made him very impatient of imbecility, and of all faults which grated on his strong, shrewd nature; it left no check to his cutting sarcasm. Shirley This is natural, because he has most room to store his imbecility. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 29, May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The details are ample, and to be met with everywhere; nothing could exceed the ferocity of the populace, the imbecility of the magistracy, or the good conduct of the troops. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II The high and noble talents that characterized their progenitors are not seen, but there is now exhibited, among their descendants, imbecility and the most revolting forms of nervous disease. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) Military delays and tardy movements were nevertheless charged to the imbecility of the Government. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 To let slip a favorable opportunity is the greatest proof of imbecility. Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order The lowest class of Atheists are "Atheists of imbecility," persons of stunted intellect, incapable of comprehending the idea of God. Arrows of Freethought What a picture of secret degradation and imbecility in the towering and apparently haughty Lord Grey! The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. II They devoted amazing industry, and sometimes remarkable ingenuity, to its development; frequently glossing the very scriptures of their religion with dexterious imbecilities that raise a sinister admiration in the midst of our laughter. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Sometimes, indeed, a writer puts all his head into the title, and the rest of the book displays his imbecility. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) Especially is it the duty of those who feel that they have attained the necessary condition of "transcendental imbecility" to test the enormous pretension of a doctrine of whose reception they alone are capable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 How, by way of conciliation, Mr. Byles would carry sweets in his coat-tail pocket and offer them at unsuitable times to the leading anarchists, who regarded this imbecility as the last insult. Young Barbarians I’m not yet reduced to imbecility and prefer to examine my own correspondence,” returned the invalid, fretfully. Jessica, the Heiress A single "lost soul" would prove the malignity or imbecility of "our father which art in heaven." Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Jeffrey had vainly attempted to make a country witness understand his meaning as he spoke of the mental imbecility and impaired intellect of the party. Law and Laughter One must be a misogynist of very high degree to introduce the pathological notion of imbecility into the evolution of the normal mentality of woman. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Epilepsy, congenital criminality, and moral insanity alone are capable of comprising in one clinical form intellectual divergencies which range from genius to imbecility. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso From Slavatsky's records I find that I will have enough if I reduce all of his men to a state of imbecility except Willis. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Now to deprive woman of the right to express her thought with authority at the ballot-box in regard to the laws under which she is governed, puts a mark of imbecility upon her at once. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV The sultan is a man past fifty years of age, short and puffy in person, with a countenance which expresses, very obviously, the imbecility of his mind. Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 In spite of my protests, imbecility was not admitted, and the somnambulism was looked upon as simulated. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study A man so gifted could express all the imbecilities he liked. The Paliser case This little gem set in the silver sea, this isle, this realm, this England, is becoming a paltry concern, is fast being Gladstoned into drivelling imbecility. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule The policy of conciliation, if conduct so feeble deserves to be called a policy at all, had now reached its limit; and it amounted to confessed imbecility. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. Nothing but imbecility or treachery could have controlled his conduct. Three Years in the Federal Cavalry Within sixty days after the commencement of hostilities in 1812, the imbecility of Hull lost to the country its Michigan territory, and fearfully jeoparded the whole northwestern region. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. The hopeless imbecility of this tenet of faith is only equalled by the depth to which it has taken root in the popular mind. The Curse of Education He had not guessed that, however these men polished their verses, they doubtless addressed their sweethearts with all the imbecility of sincerity. In a Little Town —Love, with Greece and Rome in ken, Bade her scribes abhor the trick Of poetry and rhetoric, And exult with hearts set free, In blessed imbecility Scrawled, perchance, on some torn sheet Leaving Sallust incomplete. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning Owing to the negligence or imbecility, or both, of the medical department on board, little or no provision was made for the sick. An Old Sailor's Yarns They are neither idiots nor madmen, and only from a McClellan, or some bright pupils of the McClellan school, could such imbecility, such gratuitously ruinous playing into the hands of an enemy be expected. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 But, notwithstanding we should speak of the inconstancy, imbecility, and levity of fear itself, yet it is of very great service to speak contemptuously of those very things of which we are afraid. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero There are two immortal imbecilities that I have no patience for. In a Little Town To attempt to arouse any interest or show any intelligence is wrong, but then neither must you betray any sign of actual imbecility. Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 In the Assembly, as in Congress, Mr. Madison's aim was to increase the powers of the federal government, for want of which it was rapidly sinking into imbecility and contempt. James Madison The details of that slaughter, and of the imbecility displayed by our officers in high command,—those details, when published, will be horrible. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Carlyle's denunciations of the imbecility of our system began to be more congenial to his temper, and encouraged him in his heresy. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Driven by fear of her departure into a state of helplessness, almost of imbecility, he wandered about the house. The Rainbow New regiments pour in, the people are sublime in their devotion; only may these regiments not become sacrificed to the Jaggernaut of imbecility. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 How does insanity differ from idiocy or imbecility? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Among others, hear the following query: Whether this unconquerable and irresistible nation shall suddenly perish through imbecility? etc. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 Even the fortune which she had easily seized through the alcoholic imbecility of her semblance of a man brought no gratitude to her. The River Prophet The influence of the vaudeville has, on the whole, been so elevating and refining that its audiences cannot stand either the impurity or the imbecility of the fashionable drama. Imaginary Interviews This plan reveals an utter military imbecility, and its plausibility can only catch�——. 1st. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Idiocy or imbecility is weakness of mind, while insanity is disorder or abnormal action of mind. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Or has imbecility exasperated even the merciful but rational Christian God to that extent, that God turns his back upon us? Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 On studying them more closely, we shall discover the cause of this seeming imbecility. Practical Education, Volume II Those who have the misfortune to be born deaf and dumb, continue for ever in intellectual imbecility. Practical Education, Volume I Ah! to witness here the meanest egotism, imbecility, and intrigue, coolly, one by one, destroy the honor and the future of this noble people. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Stupidity is dulness and slowness of mental action which may range all the way from lack of normal readiness to absolute imbecility. English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions The new era rises above darkness, selfishness, and imbecility. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 The imbecility of our government even forbids them to treat with us: our ambassadors abroad are the mere pageants of mimic sovereignty. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I If men did not think, reason, and act, our undisturbed, slumbering intellects would not excel the imbecility of the brute; we should live in chaos, hardly aware of our existence. A New Illustrated Edition of J. S. Rarey's Art of Taming Horses With the Substance of the Lectures at the Round House, and Additional Chapters on Horsemanship and Hunting, for the Young and Timid Imbecility in a leader is often, nay always, more dangerous than treason; the people can find out—easily, too—treason, but is disarmed against imbecility. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 No bacchanalian shout rent the air; no man was seen reeling in maudlin imbecility to his home. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III Oh, eternal reason, send the feeblest breath of divine emanation and arrest this all-devouring torrent of imbecility, selfishness and conceit that is reigning paramount here. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 They are sometimes a little faulty in rhyme and melody: but they are never lame from imbecility. ——he has the happiest wit, Who has discretion to attemper it. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Your head is full of the imbecilities of the studio. The Belovéd Vagabond If it is not direct, naked treason which prevails among the nurses, and the various advisers of the people, imbecility, narrow-mindedness, do the same work. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Industry had been ruined by civil wars during the long imbecility of Charles VI., and the succeeding ravages made by the English. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History My hope and confidence is in the logic of events always stronger than man's helplessness and imbecility. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 She could not be blind to the trickery by which money was wrested from tortured consciences, and from ignorance, imbecility, and dotage. Madame Roland, Makers of History And all the time I was athrill with pride and joy—suffused therewith into imbecility. The Belovéd Vagabond Poor Stanton, to be hampered by imbecility and intrigue! Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 In a word, he was fast relapsing into utter imbecility. Richard II Makers of History This is true also of other forms of idiocy and imbecility. The Sexual Life of the Child Suttner with regard to the horrors of modern war, they are imbecilities to which we can make a statistical answer. Gems (?) of German Thought Had the Irish Court of Queen's Bench held the contrary doctrine, it would have been universally scouted for its imbecility and ignorance. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Some second-rate mistakes in the execution did not virtually endanger its success; but, to say the truth, McDowell and his army were defeated by the imbecility of the supreme military authority. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Every art which had its absolute technique is, to a certain extent, guarded from the intrusions of mere left-handed imbecility. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete But I hardly think you expected such a wretched flare up as you see here, such a fizzing, spluttering, ragged exhibition of imbecility. Violin Making 'The Strad' Library, No. IX. It converts the energy of a community into indolence—its power into imbecility—its efficiency into weakness. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans I myself, as much as any participator, was impressed, on the 20th of March, 1815, with the blindness, the hesitation, the imbecility, the misery of every description, to which that terrible explosion gave birth. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 If he, Scott, was ignorant, then it shows his utter imbecility; if he knew that the fortifications were insignificant, and did not tell it to the troops, then he is worse than an incapable chief. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 A recent example of this heavy imbecility is “Adonijah, a Tale of the Jewish Dispersion,” which forms part of a series, “uniting,” we are told, “taste, humor, and sound principles.” The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete Suppose, moreover, aware that I could not thus oblige them, unless they were inferior in intellect to myself, I should forbid them to read, and thus consign them to intellectual and moral imbecility. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject Departure on the part of parents from organic laws entails misery, even to imbecility, on the children. The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election Indeed, as the imbecility of a shallow 210 pate is made all the more apparent by a position of distinction, so is the utter unfitness of certain words for their position painfully manifest. English: Composition and Literature The next evening he began again, however, as emphatically as before; but Beth could not stand such imbecility a second time, so she ran out of the back-gate, and seized Sammy. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Like the writer of imaginary conversations, he may put what imbecilities he pleases into the mouths of his antagonists, and swell with triumph when he has refuted them. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete It is scarcely necessary to add that this idea of equality prevailed, not in the better days of the Athenian democracy, but only during its imbecility and corruption. Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject These are they who by their ignorance and folly curse almost every fireside with some human specimen of deformity or imbecility. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I Let them lollop along in their own wretched fashion to some final imbecility! Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange Insanity or imbecility are seldom the result but more often the cause of such habits. The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Walford was next put up, but the miserable condition of the unfortunate man, and his vacant look of imbecility, excited nothing but laughter and ridicule, and no one would make a bid for him. The Voyage of the Aurora Hence would appear to arise that remarkable imbecility of body and mind which distinguishes the Gentoos. Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease They are compounds of tears, hysterics, frettings, scoldings, complainings; made up of craftiness and imbecilities, to be wheedled, and coaxed, and coerced like unmanageable children. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I It is probable that blindness, deafness, imbecility, and other infirmities, are more likely to be the lot of the children of parents related by blood than of others. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes Now there is a great difference between inability to manage a man's affairs, and imbecility of mind taken as evidence of unsoundness of mind. A Letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect Julia comprehends all, and secretly congratulates herself on his imbecility which releases her from embraces that are repugnant to her, though she assumes an air of tender concern at his distress. City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston Want of power, and want of will—fear, hesitation, and imbecility—were so conspicuous in the conduct of these Courts, as to destroy all confidence in their professions. Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 It is built upon a "mental imbecility," and buttressed up by "contradictions!" Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles It is often in the maternal womb that we are to look for the true cause not only of imbecility, but of the different kinds of mania. Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes By the common consent of philosophers and physicians, mental imbecility in the extreme degree is termed idiotcy; and this state may exist "ex nativitate," or supervene at various periods of human life. A Letter to the Right Honorable the Lord Chancellor, on the Nature and Interpretation of Unsoundness of Mind, and Imbecility of Intellect What are we to think of the imbecility of the judge, or of his horrible connivance? The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 But when the "punishment-of-crime" system is applied to criminals of the type here described, the imbecility of it must be apparent to all. Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Detective Stories His health continued to decline more and more to the close of his life in June, 1722, though the notion of his imbecility appears to have been erroneous. Political Women, Vol. 2 And they had displayed a strange political imbecility, contrasting with their spirit and intelligence in war. Lectures on the French Revolution Late in 1785, when the Virginia legislature had wrangled itself into imbecility over the question of clothing Congress with power over trade, Madison hit upon an expedient. The Critical Period of American History Her imbecility was due, we found, to her having had a fall as a baby. Indian Conjuring Account of Claudius.His apparent imbecility.Every one against him.Mode of teasing him. Nero Makers of History Series Their courage and enterprise achieved that which the imbecility of your countrymen had either neglected, or left for centuries unaccomplished. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader He might have obtained hope of life by betraying the mendacity of his accomplices, and the imbecility of his dupes. Lectures on the French Revolution The least soft of Shakespeare's critics calls it "unresisting imbecility." William Shakespeare Political squibs, paltry chapbooks, puny satires, and penny imbecilities, too numerous for mention here, with an occasional publication of merit, have been printed and sold at the expense of the man in the moon. Moon Lore But suddenly the official notes which the envoy addressed to the reis-effendi began to exhibit a sagacity and an evidence of far-sighted policy which contrasted strongly with the imbecility which had previously characterized those communications. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf The next step will, I dread to think, be hopeless imbecility!” The Stretton Street Affair In another family of daughters, the first is a smart, active girl, with an intelligent, well-balanced mind; the others are afflicted with different degrees of mental weakness and imbecility, and the youngest is an idiot. Select Temperance Tracts It is sad to think that the strength and intellect and spirit of manhood should thus be conquered by that very imbecility which it is their desire to banish from the world. The Fixed Period James was simply astounded; he tried not to hear the cruel words that buzzed in his ears, but he could not help it—imbecility, crass idiocy, madness. The Hero You see, I had reached the stage of imbecility when I was talking to myself. Humorous Ghost Stories Whom she marries—whether a man old enough to be her father, whether a pattern of imbecility, whether a man of a notoriously debauched character—this matters not a jot. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) I blush for the imbecility of the man who must have an article on his farm which eats up his substance and his vitals, and may turn his son into an idiot and a brute. Select Temperance Tracts It consists altogether of the abolition of the miseries, weakness, and fainéant imbecility of old age, by the prearranged ceasing to live of those who would otherwise become old. The Fixed Period So really there is a chance of making a pretty little sum of money for old age, imbecility, and those young ladies afterwards.... Stories of Authors, British and American The Learned Judge could only suppose such a state of Civic imbecility was due to the decadence of the times in which they had the misfortune to live. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy We never experienced a more stinging sense of our own humbleness and imbecility than on such occasions, and never had we greater need of patience and lowliness of spirit. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Some suffocated, some blinded, and millions probably mad and sightless, stumbling over the bodies of the dead to cut each other’s throats in the frenzy of sudden imbecility.” The Mystery of the Green Ray He had no great ideas as to the imbecility and weakness of human life when protracted beyond its fitting limits. The Fixed Period For instance, tall parents will probably have children taller than either, and mental imbecility is the usual attendant of extreme size. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Pope Clement, with his usual avarice-blinded imbecility, had, immediately on concluding a treaty with the Neapolitan viceroy, discharged all his troops except a bodyguard of about six hundred men. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 "Ah, that's just it," he answered as seriously as if she hadn't known that her speech bordered on imbecility. Virginia If in the previous Book we beheld the depravity of the Suitors, we now witness the imbecility of the People. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Oh for an adamantine law to protect the human race from the imbecility, the weakness, the discontent, and the extravagance of old age! The Fixed Period They curse his policy of mercy as imbecility, and swear to make the South a second Poland. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Miss Burney is quite sensibly frank in her inability to fathom this imbecility. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Sorely missing Miss Charlecote, he took his meals in the west wing, where his presence was highly appreciated, though he was often pained by Bertha’s levity and Maria’s imbecility. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Erroneous opinions are sometimes the consequence of unavoidable ignorance, or of mental imbecility, or of a weak and erring judgment, or of false testimony from others, which cannot be rectified. An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism With reference to the duty of American females But I cannot look with satisfaction to a condition of life in which, from my own imbecility, I must necessarily retrograde into selfishness. The Fixed Period This rational flexibility of policy you and your fellow radicals have been pleased to call my vacillating imbecility.” The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Many a congenital criminal is born in the purple, who shows his moral imbecility in many ways. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire His four lines could not have been surpassed for clumsy and laboured imbecility. Marge Askinforit "It began with those two spluttering imbecilities you asked me to dine with." The Creators A Comedy But imbecility it often brings and childish discontent. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings Mary and Georgina acknowledge the condition of imbecility to which we have become reduced in reference to your kind reminder. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Savages have paresis, apoplexy, and imbecility, seldom or never insanity. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire It is mere imbecility after the four hours' sitting. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 All things and all men must be reduced to a dead level of imbecility. American Sketches 1908 The representation of confidential imbecility could not go further. Picture and Text 1893 The meanest reptile which crawls on the earth, nay, every herb and flower which we behold, baffles the imbecility of our limited inquiries. A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. The face was vague to apathy, the mouth looked the incarnation of meekness or imbecility; even his hands had taken on a helpless feebleness in the clutch in which he held his worn-out hat. The Diamond Coterie The bullet lodged somewhere about the brain, and it has produced, by its pressure, this peculiar form of imbecility. Witness to the Deed But as the ceremony proceeded and he observed her absent-ness, her vacancy, her pathetic imbecility, he began to be oppressed by an awful sense of her consciousness of error. The Manxman A Novel - 1895 If he gave her a hint that she had reduced him to a state of imbecility before his moment came—if it ever did!—his chances would be done for—dished. Black Oxen A projecting forehead indicates imbecility, immaturity, weakness, stupidity. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science They have a great name, it is true; but, in fact, all their plans and arrangements are governed by imbecility and folly. Xerxes Makers of History But it may have passed for imbecility, or worse, on Mars. Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner I turned from such infantile imbecility to the exhilarating reflection that I was the only one to whom Lucy had shown herself—her chosen knight! Explorers of the Dawn Some writers have even attempted to prove that genius or excessive intelligence is a form of madness as bad as its opposite form, imbecility or defective intelligence. Notes on Islam To show distrust might give offence, and court attack—no trifling matter, notwithstanding the age and apparent imbecility of the savages. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure I have never seen a body of intelligent men reduced so nearly to imbecility as my shipmates then were. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life For the first few years our prosecution of the Canadian war was marked by a weakness little short of imbecility. The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) In his other character of legislator, we have seen, that already the earliest stages of Mahometan experience exposed decisively his ruinous imbecility. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 As respects the general mind, there is no such imbecility abroad; no such disposition to traffic or go halves, temporize or capitulate with treason. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 There are men to-day who pretend to believe that my father's mental state is as perfect as ever—that he is merely shielding himself from punishment by shamming imbecility. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science She forbids man to labor continuously, and if he persists in disregarding her prohibition, she will revenge herself by imbecility, uselessness, or death. Amusement: A Force in Christian Training But, as the events of the year 1802 showed more and more the imbecility of the Addington Cabinet, torturing doubts preyed upon his mind. William Pitt and the Great War A face indicating mental imbecility, or even low mediocrity, is very rarely met in those streets where the greater portion of the Romans seem to work and live. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. The ladies—girls I had supposed them to be—were, in fact, women and mothers, and had reached an age that with us would be associated with decrepitude, wrinkles and imbecility. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Even the cats of the settlement were present, including that celebrated kitten which had been reduced to a state of drivelling imbecility by the furious advent of the Wild Man. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains The Catalan insurrection, the loss of Jamaica, the Low Countries, and Portugal, were the results of his misrule and imbecility. A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges I see that some little popguns were let off at you on the occasion, but they are too puny to excite anything but a smile at their imbecility. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada The Sabbath mind was very much in evidence, and the Sabbath mind verges on imbecility. The Green Carnation His state was truly pitiable—all his fine faculties lost in paralytic imbecility, and yet not so entirely so but that he perceived his deprivation as in a glass darkly. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Thought beat, for a while, like a caged bird, against the bars of necessity, and then fluttered back into panting imbecility. The Last Penny and Other Stories M. Stewart, for the great wrong which my natural imbecility has impelled me to do them in penning and publishing the foregoing sanguinary absurdity. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Some of us realized their importance, not so much in arriving at a correct decision on the questions at issue, as in preventing mental stagnation likely to result in imbecility if not actual idiocy. Lights and Shadows in Confederate Prisons A Personal Experience, 1864-5 Clothed in a profusion of words, the charge of imbecility or falsehood was understood. The History of Tasmania, Volume I Her Ladyship, shamefully neglected by her husband, resided in England during the remainder of her life, and from disease and poverty was reduced to a state of extreme imbecility both of body and mind. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Consternation ruled supreme, treason and imbecility were everywhere charged against the authorities. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) It is a misfortune that Nietzsche, the great keen thinker, should have been misled into an opposite conclusion by the mental weakness, the paralytic imbecility, which gradually enveloped his brain like a growth of mould. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour They must indeed pity us, and set themselves to expiate the imbecility of a world which treats them as hysterical fools, for it cannot even understand the joy in suffering of souls like these. En Route Carlyle dismissed with just contempt the absurd paradox that the greatness of the book was due to the imbecility of the author. Dr. Johnson and His Circle I did not recognise him then; he looks now more as he used to do, except that he has a more unmistakable air of mad imbecility.” Romola The power of this ruffian is a standing proof of the imbecility of the Turkish Government. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure How few there are who can pick out of the desolate morass of growing imbecility the scanty grains of higher intelligence! The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour Another man: but here we must speak of crowds and classes, for imbecility affects whole regions of society at once. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 Oh, to have a world where imbecility wasn't entrenched! A Matter of Proportion If he said “Yes,” his quick mind told him that he would shake the credibility of his story: if he said “No,” he risked everything on the uncertain extent of Baldassarre’s imbecility. Romola Grant it that one of your political measures is rank imbecility, your acts in exposing the essential knavery of our phenomenal humbugs are beautiful and full of goodness and wisdom. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 He has endured her; aye! he has even been happy with her at times—the relationship has been endurable—'twere imbecility, and death for both, to break it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators |
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