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A vicious priest degrades the priestly vocation a hypocrite brings reproach upon the religious profession a dishonest lawyer sinks the legal character and even the bravest men care but little for promotion in an army, when cowardice and incompetency are rewarded with rank and power.
Fill them with tears and sighs, lament separation and suffering, dwell on your loneliness and fears, mourn over the dishonesty of contractors and the incompetency of leaders, doubt if the South will ever be conquered, and foresee financial ruin, and you will damp the powder and dull the swords that ought to deal death upon the foe. Write as tenderly as you will.
This tended in the direction of showing the utter incapacity of the Swiss or French nature to manage a railway, and the discreditable incompetency of the officials of whatever grade. The station-master was properly abashed before the torrent of indignant speech. But he had his turn presently. Calmer inspection disclosed the fact that all the fourteen packets were delivered.
It may be fancied that such a man as Berlioz did not spare the lash, once he griped the whip-handle, and, though no man was more generous than he in recognizing and encouraging genuine merit, there was none more relentless in scourging incompetency, pretentious commonplace, and the blind conservatism which rests all its faith in what has been.
He must have been off his head with worry before he wrote it, or started back to a place he'd left for " "Incompetency, if you want the brutal truth," Dudley broke in not unkindly. "He was too old-fashioned to make good elsewhere, I expect; and if he found it out, I don't wonder if he did go off his head." I glanced over Dudley's shoulder at the letter he and Macartney were studying.
This morning was to place it beyond a doubt, whether the victories of Gustavus at Leipzig and on the Lech, were owing to his own military genius, or to the incompetency of his opponent; whether the services of Wallenstein were to vindicate the Emperor's choice, and justify the high price at which they had been purchased.
They encountered other difficulties quite apart from the incompetency or dishonesty of their directors.
It was a case of moral cowardice rather than incompetency. At rehearsals no one had entirely believed in him, and this, instead of stinging him into a resolution to triumph, had made him take fright and run away. People felt that they were witnessing a great play with a great part cut out, and "The Merchant of Venice" ran for three weeks!
Sensible, therefore, of her incompetency as yet to regulate her imagination so as to escape notice, she withdrew in about an hour to her own room, there once more to give loose to indulgence. Our readers may perceive that the position of Jane Sinclair, in her own family, was not very favorable to the formation of a firm character.
The spirit of the "Times" was up. The voice of the many loudly condemned the incompetency of the few. The conduct of the war had now become a matter of moment, and reforms, in the marine department at least, were imperative. Captain Carden's despatch to Mr. Croker. By the fall of Gen'l. Brocke, the civil governorship of the Upper province devolved upon Major Gen'l.
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