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Speaking on the character of the _product_ of the English schools, Faraday says, 'The whole evidence appears to show that the _reasoning faculties_ [mark, it is here the failure occurs, and here that it shows itself], in all classes of the community, are very imperfectly and insufficiently developed -- _imperfectly, as compared with the natural abilities, insufficiently, when considered with reference to the extent and variety of information with which they are called upon to deal_.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

This range is very imperfectly seen from Primiero, and still more imperfectly from the Val di Canali, the perspective in both instances being so abrupt as only to show the peaks in line, one behind the other.

Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

Mr Toby Chuzzlewit had either received the name imperfectly from his father, or that he had forgotten it, or that he had mispronounced it? and that even at the recent period in question, the Chuzzlewits were connected by a bend sinister, or kind of heraldic over-the-left, with some unknown noble and illustrious House?

Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

-- a phrase imperfectly translatable, meaning, as near as may be, having flitter-mice in his campanile.

The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878

Modern video players do not reveal video-file suffixes, and captions and subtitles imperfectly capture the spoken words in a video.

Searching Just got Smarter Martyn Daniels 2007

Modern video players do not reveal video-file suffixes, and captions and subtitles imperfectly capture the spoken words in a video.

Archive 2007-02-01 Martyn Daniels 2007

They must not be argued with, for they are convinced they suffer only for God's sake, and cannot be made to understand they are acting imperfectly, which is a further error in persons so far advanced.

The Interior Castle or The Mansions 1921

While these "imperfectly" marked ballots still contain the voter's political expression, their intent, machines, not being human, can not discern the voter's intent on the ballot.

Voter intent: Granite State bedrock for election integrity 2006

To say that New Orleans' urban mostly black youth are "educationally underserved" is like saying the Saints performed "imperfectly" against Seattle: a huge understatement.

Your Right Hand Thief 2004

To say that New Orleans' urban mostly black youth are "educationally underserved" is like saying the Saints performed "imperfectly" against Seattle: a huge understatement.

Archive 2004-09-01 2004