That is, a defect in the chain of co-operation, balance and compensation among the internal secretions is the basis for the weakness of the nervous system the term neurasthenia is supposed to explain, actually only names.

For some of them, Ferragut's only defect was his good luck.

The main defect of the work was a lack of knowledge.

IMAGINATION, the name appropriate to the highest faculty of man, and defined by Ruskin as "mental creation," in the exercise of which the human being discharges his highest function as a responsible being, "the defect of which on common minds it is the main use," says Ruskin, "of works of fiction, and of the drama, as far as possible, to supply.

" Here, in the lowest class of city poor, moral defects are the direct cause of distress in only 18 per cent.

His defect is a purely personal matter.

Her only real defect, perhaps, was a slight inclination for pilfering; she appropriated some linen that was lying about, but madame would not hear of the matter being mentioned.

Another defect in Ford's poetry, proceeding from the same source, is the alloy of pedantry which pervades his scenes, at one time exhibited in the composition of uncouth phrases, at another in perplexity of language; and he frequently labours with a remote idea, which, rather than throw it away, he obtrudes upon his reader, involved in inextricable obscurity.

The greatest defect in his theory was his complete failure to recognize the services promised by mathematics to natural science.

The defect of his older arrangements was undue complexity and consequent trouble to keep in order.

Defects in roads, to which mishaps may be fairly attributed, are only those unlooked for conditions which make trouble for all other vehicles, such as wash-outs, pit-holes, weak culverts, broken bridges,in short, conditions which require repairs to restore the road to normal condition.

"So then," replied Buonarroti, "the defect is nature's, and see you spare neither the brush nor art.

The only defect is a little clumsiness in the Madonna's hand.

But his great defect is shameful cupidity, which would employ, to attain its ends, even criminal means, and likewise great duplicity, whence comes his habit of scarcely ever saying that which is.

His intellectual defect was his idea of special divine illumination, which made him visionary and rhapsodical and conceited.

The great personal defect of Thiers was vanity; that of Guizot was austerity: but both were men of transcendent ability and unimpeached patriotism.

His chief defect was an irritability of temper in the latter part of his life, which shewed itself principally towards those who differed from him on speculative questions.

She had always liked him; had always given him credit for good qualities; had always believed that his early defects were the consequence of his mother's injudicious treatment; and that at heart he was an amiable, generous, and trustworthy being, one who might be depended on, with a naturally good judgment, and substantial and sufficient talents, which only required cultivation.

To Froude it was neither the whole Truth nor Antichrist; but like the English Church itself, a great and defective Church, whose defects were the opposite to ours, and which we should do wisely to learn from rather than abuse.

The great defect of this play is the emptiness and narrowness of the last act, which a very little diligence might have easily avoided.

The defect of his features was the thinness of the lips, and a want of character in a nose which did not accord with a good forehead.

This defect in arrangement is natural in writings intended, as these were, for the use of judges and professors, experts in the subjects with which they deal, but makes the task of presenting a concise statement of them difficult and uncertain.

This defect, as has been said, was the root of much evil; it destroyed his independence, detracted from the dignity of his character, created enemies, and led to a laxity of the moral sense which prepared the way for corruption,thereby furnishing another illustration of that fatal weakness which degrades any man when he runs races with the rich, and indulges in a luxury and ostentation which he cannot afford.

The capital defect of cold, arid natures is the want of animal spirits.

The defects of the law, and of the administration of justice, were the subject on which that paper rendered most service to improvement.