half-imbecility

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The low faithlessness of Harley, who seems to have been carrying on a Jacobite correspondence at the foot of the throne the infamous treachery of his brother-minister, St John the undenied and undeniable corruption of Walpole, and the half-imbecility which made the chicane of Newcastle ridiculous, while his perpetual artifice alone saved his imbecility from overthrow, altogether form a congeries, which, like the animal wrecks of the primitive world, almost give in their deformity a reason for its extinction.

Various - Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847