In those long night watches while the lights flared on either side of her mirror, and the luxurious room of a modern young lady lay disclosed, with all its sumptuous fittings of beauty and inutility, Lydia went over her plans of campaign.

A few words of Condivi's show the grief and discouragement which the capriciousness of Leo, and the inutility of the work the master was employed on, caused Michelangelo.

His views on the inutility of water baptism were so decided, that when converted Jews asked him to administer to them this rite, he told them he could not recommend it, for it would do them no good.

" Lord Byron, however, is not singular in his opinion of the inutility of premature classical studies; and notwithstanding the able manner in which the late Dean Vincent defended public education, we have some notion that his reasoning upon this point will not be deemed conclusive.

In the Epistle to the Galatians Paul speaks with unusual boldness and earnestness, severely rebuking them for their departure from the truth, and reiterating with dogmatic ardor the inutility of circumcision as of the Law abrogated by Christ, with whom, in the liberty which he proclaimed, there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither bond nor free, neither male nor female, but all are one in Him.

Nay, do they not talk of the inutility of evidence?

From these concessions however we are by no means authorised to infer their inutility.

[U.S.]. trumpery, trash, rubbish, stuff, fatras^, frippery; leather or prunello; chaff, drug, froth bubble smoke, cobweb; weed; refuse &c (inutility) 645; scum &c (dirt) 653. joke, jest, snap of the fingers; fudge &c (unmeaning) 517; fiddlestick^, fiddlestick end^; pack of nonsense, mere farce.

Inutility N. inutility; uselessness &c adj.; inefficacy^, futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience^; inadequacy &c (insufficiency) 640; inefficiency, &c (incompetence) 158; unskillfulness &c 699; disservice; unfruitfulness &c (unproductiveness)..

Inutility N. inutility; uselessness &c adj.; inefficacy^, futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience^; inadequacy &c (insufficiency) 640; inefficiency, &c (incompetence) 158; unskillfulness &c 699; disservice; unfruitfulness &c (unproductiveness)..

discommodity^, impropriety; unfitness &c (disagreement) 24; inutility &c 645; disadvantage.

But, setting aside all considerations of the inutility or noxious character of luxury, there is one vital difference between the employment afforded in the two cases.

It is needless to dissemble, that Dr. Johnson, in the life of Roscommon, talks of the inutility of such a project.

This shows the perfect inutility of fortifying the old town of Vienna against a foreign enemy.

The inutility of science, written in a merely technical form, is well exemplified in the instance of Cicero.

Thus the Duc d'Epernon was not only powerful in himself, but found his pretensions recognized and sanctioned by a Prince of the Blood, an advantage of which he was not slow to appreciate the value; and he consequently listened to the expostulations which were addressed to him by those who dreaded the effects of his interference in state affairs with a quiet indifference that satisfied them of their utter inutility.

It is easy to see the inutility of such pedantry; and Butler has made it sufficiently ridiculous by this caricature: "For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools.

The inutility of small torpedo boats at sea.

Mr. Corréard persuaded of the inutility of making fresh applications, gave up for the present all farther solicitation for what he had so well deserved by his courage and his services.

However pride, prejudice and personal interest, may deceive themselves respecting the re-establishment of our Western Colonies, nobody will be able longer to dissemble the inutility of attempts to persevere in a false route.

The danger, and the inutility of expressing fears which could only perplex her guide, made Venetia silent, but she was terrified.

It is to the honor of mankind and their consolation under great reverses that political checks and the inutility of their efforts do not obscure the glory of great men.

I believe it will generally be found, that most of the republican reforms are of this descriptioncalculated only to impose on the people, and disguising, by frivolous prohibitions, their real inutility.

Indeed, so conscious are the advocates of government, that the imputation cannot be obviated by pleading the integrity of the parties, that they seem to rest their sole defence on the inutility of a murder, which only transfers whatever rights the House of Bourbon may be supposed to possess, from one branch of it to another.

Afterwards, his tormentors, wearied by the inutility of their violence, left him forgotten in the dungeon.