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Considering the extraordinary power he elsewhere displays, it is more probable that I have failed to follow his meaning, than that he has been, on the points in question, incompetent to deal with his task.
The marvel is that in this succession of vicious and aimless tyrannies by shameless women and incompetent men, Russia did not fall into anarchy and revolution. But nothing was undone. The dignity of Moscow was preserved by the fact that the coronations must take place there. But there was no longer a reactionary party scheming for a return to the Ancient City.
Any really great artist is almost sure to be thought incompetent by those among his seniors who would be generally regarded as best qualified to form an opinion. And the mere fact of having to produce work which will please older men is hostile to a free spirit and to bold innovation.
No braying of trumpets, clashing of cymbals, or hoarse groaning of gongs; no roaring through broad-mouthed horns, smacking of canvass, or pattering of incompetent rifles. All these vulgar noises belonging to a fair, are banished out of the gates of the city: which is itself deeply occupied with sober, earnest trading. Leipsic has the privilege of holding three markets in the year.
But it is not, we believe, in Protestant countries that Protestants are proscribed; it is not in Catholic countries that Catholics are incompetent to serve the State. It was left for a free country to establish, practically, civil disabilities against freemen, for Republican America to proscribe Republicans!
But Attalus proved utterly incompetent, and the next year Alaric publicly and insultingly degraded him to a private position. In 410 a fresh insult and wrong inflicted on the Goths by Honorius brought Alaric once more to Rome.
He thought: 'My shrewd, capable girl has to sacrifice herself and me in order to look after incompetent persons who can't look after themselves! 'You'll be all right, said she, still in the same tone. 'Can't I run down and see you? he suggested. She laughed briefly, as at a pleasantry, and so Henry laughed too. 'With four sick people on my hands! she exclaimed.
In Sardinia the same burden of misgovernment was felt; and the people, like the Sicilians, were impoverished by a government so utterly incompetent to perform its first and most essential duties that it did not protect its own coasts from the Barbary pirates.
The inefficient were gently tolerated; severe punishment was held to be alike cruel and useless; an incompetent servant was carried as a burden from which there was no escape. Such endurance was the way of all good masters and mistresses at the South, "and I have known very few who were not good," adds the writer.
"Do you mean to leave her?" cried the officer. "She seems to me to lie nicely; can't we get your ship off?" "So we could, and no mistake; but how we're to keep her afloat's another question. Her bows is stove in," replied Wicks. The officer coloured to the eyes. He was incompetent, and knew he was; thought he was already detected, and feared to expose himself again.
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