| 单词 | baseness |
| 例句 | “No, of course it isn’t necessary. But some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone. I’d like to undergo something nobly. Don’t you see?” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice is agitated, it sounds almost dignified as he says: “I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in the war.” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the entire world was moved by disgust at the baseness of his blood and by the hatred caused by fear of his cruelty. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z I think they gloried in my squalor as proof of my baseness. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “What baseness! Well, if she abuses you, come to me, and I’ll defend you.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z They are merely honest and call a thing by its name; for there is a very great deal of fraud, injustice, and baseness in the army. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He also played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Wolf Hall Parts One & Two,” and captures again the man’s voice, its taint of baseness, its ups and downs and quiet ruthlessness. Review | Three audiobooks to listen to now 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z With Tolstoy, a biblical descent into baseness, to show how human beings, entangled in sex, death and treachery, really are. Appreciation: Philip Roth 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Our baseness is “the most human aspect of our being.” The Charming, Disgusting Paintings of Tala Madani 2017-04-28T04:00:00Z To believe otherwise is to be a monster or a fool, and to insist on the baseness of the species is a mark of intellectual and artistic honesty. Movie Review: ‘Nymphomaniac: Volume II,’ the Rest of von Trier’s Story 2014-04-03T23:45:12Z She heated up the off-Broadway realm with her dark, sensual dance-theater works, where beauty clashed with baseness. Martha Clarke has made a career of movement. Now she cherishes stillness. The interesting existential tidbits about agency, morality and artificial intelligence play second string to the straw-man argument about the baseness of consumerism. ‘Free Guy’ Review: Don’t Hate the Player 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Algeria's ambassador to France said it was an act of "unspeakable baseness". Emir Abdelkader: French sculpture of Algerian hero vandalised 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z He called the case “an entirely new level of baseness and meanness from the presidential administration.” Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny declares hunger strike 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z He’s watching the baseness of human nature, investigating it, trying to find the truth of it. How do you get people to stop believing the lies? Ask artist Alison Jackson 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Cuba is blasting the Trump administration for its “baseness and rot” as it denounces the U.S. decision to impose a travel ban to the United States on former Cuban President Raul Castro. The Latest: Date set for first Syrian constitution talks 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z His portrait suggests that the Trump administration’s reputation for baseness and dysfunction has, if anything, been understated. Review | How we tell the story of America 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z It’s a startling portrait that suggests that the Trump administration’s reputation for baseness and dysfunction has, if anything, been understated and too narrowly attributed to the president. Review | Andrew McCabe’s disturbing account of working for Sessions and Trump 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z It had all the makings of a secular proverb, calling on listeners to meet baseness with greatness and incivility with civility. When Is ‘Civility’ a Duty, and When Is It a Trap? 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z He shows, in excruciating detail, how blackness “served as an easily grasped symbol of the Negro’s baseness and wickedness.” Opinion | How James Brown Made Black Pride a Hit 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z In these stories, Moshfegh’s most educated characters long to merge with a world of baseness and vulgarity. Review: Depravity on display in ‘Homesick for Another World’ 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z In 1984, the Alabama Supreme Court defined moral turpitude as “an act of baseness, vileness or depravity in the private and social duties which a man owes to his fellowmen or to society in general.” Former inmate working to help current inmates cast votes 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z And imagine the pollution, the press of bodies, the baseness of camping conditions, the difficulty to simply move from one site to another. The Kumbh Mela: Inside the World's Single Largest Gathering of Humanity 2013-01-16T05:05:22Z I fear my excellent friend that you have at some time suffered sadly from man's baseness," said Osborn; "but yet I think you are wrong to let the memory thereof affect you thus. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z A sad comment on the baseness of man's nature," answered Woodville; "let it never be so with you, boy. Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX 2012-04-25T02:01:07.457Z But now your baseness fitly ends, "Irregular"—and so You are "neglected" by your friends, Who all pronounce you "low." Punch, or the London Charivari, November 25, 1893 2012-04-23T02:00:30.783Z Jim Broderick, you know that you are deliberately playing on my female nature, on all the baseness you feel sure is in it. Mrs. Balfame A Novel 2012-04-15T02:00:04.827Z Certainly it cannot be pleasing to the gods that such dazzling beauty should be linked to such baseness of spirit. Famous European Artists 2012-04-07T02:00:30.487Z And yet the Lord was with him, and connived at all his baseness! A Legacy to the Friends of Free Discussion 2012-04-06T02:00:26.317Z Whereupon he: "Methinks the greatest torment a husband might inflict on a worthy wife should be to dishonor her love by his baseness; or if he had injured her, to doubt her proneness to forgive." The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z There was a harmony in his proceedings refuting the apology of unintentional baseness. The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 2012-04-05T02:00:39.100Z These documents are neither edifying nor useful: they prove nothing but the baseness of the vocation which gave them existence. Baltimore and The Nineteenth of April, 1861 A Study of the War 2012-04-04T02:01:00.923Z For the worst of Rochefort's colleagues have never been accused of any profligacies and basenesses so bad as those which universal public opinion ascribes to the leading Bonapartes and some of their most influential supporters. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Who is prepared to put the unseen before the seen, honour before life, God before man, chivalry before baseness, the Church before the world? The Red Cockade 2012-03-30T02:00:19.603Z The Philistines rejected the traitor’s aid, and prevented the consummation of this baseness. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z I am disgraced; you have made me realise my own baseness. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z That this should be termed baseness, abjection of mind, or servility, is it credible? Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Did he have the baseness to try and save himself through Lucie? The Mardi Gras Mystery 2012-03-24T02:00:18.017Z It was clear his only chance of concealing his bottomless baseness was to hold his tongue, and meanwhile he chipped with earnest care, and abased his soul before the very shadow of Miss Walshingham. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z And, averting his eyes in shame, seeing now all the littleness, all the baseness of his position, "Has he--married her?" he continued. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z It should be remembered that Voltaire had sometimes to bribe publishers to bring out his writings; and, in such circumstances, the pseudonymity is surely open to no suspicion of baseness. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z I once did hold it a baseness to write fair. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to the most preposterous conclusions.” Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z It has the Epicurean gladness without its exclusiveness, its joy without its selfishness, its naturalness without its baseness, its geniality without its heartlessness. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z At least, in the midst of its malice, misery, and baseness, it is often a relief to glance at the graceful shadows, and take, for momentary companionship, creatures full only of love, gladness, and honor. Modern Painters. Vol. III (of V) Containing Part IV. Of Many Things 2012-02-20T03:00:15.843Z Judging him by my limited knowledge of human nature," I replied, "I should say that Dr. Bethel is incapable of baseness in any form. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z She had plainly shown him how high above his foul and leprous baseness soared her own simple purity. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z For that she had for a moment believed in his baseness--if she had indeed believed--was not the worst. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z They had not fathomed the baseness of the senate--the yawning depth of its abyss of greed. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z Now, gentlemen, there is nothing in this world that a man would be prevented from doing, for its baseness, who would do that. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Legal 2012-02-11T03:04:05.257Z If not—if he cannot forget—surely he cannot forgive himself for the baseness which now he has no opportunity to repair. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z He mocked the arrogance, the cruelty, the impudence, and the unspeakable baseness of his time. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z For she had never, she was sure now, believed in that baseness. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Such perfidious doings as these, besides the baseness of them, are great hindrances of our gaining interest among the Indians.” Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z He could see the full baseness of it now. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z But are Christians guilty of this baseness because they accept the blessings of an institution which their great benefactor died to establish? The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z Did he shudder at the magnitude and baseness of his crime? Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers 2012-02-07T03:00:09.010Z Let us now turn our attention from scenes of baseness and treachery to such as can not fail to draw forth the more noble sentiments of the heart. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z He was above the baseness and the meanness of scorning any brother man. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z He had deserved to be thought willing to commit even such a baseness as that. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z No institution was more shameful and abhorrent, or so vividly reveals the baseness to which unrestricted feudalism sank, than the horrible depravity of maiden-rights, or droits de seigneur. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z O that she may be inclined to revenge herself on him for his baseness to her! and that I may be the happy instrument of effecting it! The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z I threw myself upon the ground; longing that the earth would open and shelter me from the baseness of mankind. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z He noted with life-long sadness the sordid baseness inseparably attending the fact of owning or being a slave. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z How many crimes have been committed in the name of religion! with what baseness and sordidness has it not been sincerely connected! Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z "The praise of a woman in question to bring, Before her own face, is a flattering thing; But we think thy fathers baseness," quoth they,35 "Might by thy beauty be clean put away." English and Scottish Ballads, Volume IV 2011-12-28T03:00:36.217Z His noble, magnanimous soul was wounded to the quick by the ingratitude and baseness of his false friends. The Fourth Estate, vol.1 2011-12-25T03:00:10.170Z In the height of my indignation, I resolved to upbraid Mrs Boswell with her baseness and folly, and then resign my hopeless task. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Each succeeding year and age was marked by the onward degeneracy and baseness of the Roman spirit. Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z Show how this baseness follows him to church, holds him down from praying, weights his songs, dulls his vision of spiritual things. Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z He ventured almost unconsciously, without any baseness of motive. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z In democracy baseness forces its way in, and the base gather together till a man arises who can reduce them to order; he is then admired by the people and raised to be their ruler. The History of Antiquity Vol. VI. (vol. VI. of VI.) 2011-12-15T03:00:18.317Z Unwilling to shock him by a detail of his wife's baseness, I assigned no reason for the resolution which I announced of quitting his family. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z Therefore I saw, and still see, more than two-thirds of my fellow-pupils sunk in a slough of baseness. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z But I swear to you, Prince, that I consented to all this baseness from motives which were not base. Uncle's dream; And The Permanent Husband 2011-12-08T03:00:25.597Z They also respond that since such an assertion as hers served to cover her own baseness, it should not be believed, especially as it was not sworn. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z He was silent for some seconds, as if meditating on the peculiar baseness of human nature. A Second Coming 2011-11-29T03:00:16.693Z Vile were the spirit that would not stir against such inhuman baseness!' Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z He treated the loves and hatreds, the trials and triumphs, the vices and virtues, the heroism and the baseness, of his puppets seriously. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Its baseness reveals itself to more senses than one. Abraham Lincoln and the London Punch Cartoons, Comments and Poems, Published in the London Charivari, During the American Civil War (1861-1865) 2011-11-21T03:00:13.443Z And however far these attestations may occasion belief, a declaration of this kind serves to no purpose, because no one is presumed to be willing to reveal his own baseness. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z That is one reason—and always has been—of my baseness as a correspondent. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z Let those who are conscious of similar demerit cease to reproach the less flagrant baseness, which repays with evil the feeble benefits that man bestows on man. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z The parody turned upon some trivialities of detail and some basenesses of character in dramas written by the two poets. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Think of the baseness of what you said! The Beautiful White Devil 2011-11-11T03:00:24.760Z This also makes some difference in the case, that certain authorities hold that a husband may indeed hide his wife's baseness for the purpose of taking vengeance upon her safely later on. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z What a pitiful horror indeed must that Ypres desolation and desecration be—a baseness of demonism. The Letters of Henry James, Vol. II 2011-11-18T03:00:26.730Z I have often seen greater pictures of human baseness, but never any that was more perfect; and I think it deserves, despite its pettiness, to be brought fully to light. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z Some say that virtue is prized more than all, Virtue that scorns The baseness and ill The decalogue cites And sternly forbids to great and to small. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z To have participated in the revolting cabal of cruelty, there was required the baseness of political intrigue, and to this depth the soldier never sank. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z For a person is not obliged to disclose his own baseness in the face of death, as we have proved in the said present information, � Et quatenus, and the � following. The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book 2011-12-08T03:00:22.847Z Posterity, while they suffer for his baseness, pay the due tribute of esteem to his genius and intrepidity. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z Only that which is fine and high can feed it aright, while baseness can make of it a destructive tool of terrible power. Atlantic Classics 2011-10-16T02:00:18.497Z And I have no motive for such baseness, for I am in equal danger with yourselves. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z Circumstances develop greatly the characters of men, and they sometimes rise to true greatness, or sink into baseness, according to the law of effect, of contact, and example. Martyria or Andersonville Prison 2011-10-22T02:00:28.563Z A storm of indignation swept over the North in the opening months of 1854, gaining in intensity and fury as the baseness of the new scheme of the Slave Power was fully realized. A History of the Republican Party 2011-10-14T02:00:29.980Z Indeed it was one of the curses of the Vedic period that to be a Brahmin of the present Kali yagu would be an impersonation of corruption, baseness and venality. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z He disclosed the dangerous principles of their constitution, their political objects, the oaths by which they were bound, the baseness of their intrigues, their false professions, their horrible deeds, and their disgraceful rapacity and profligacy. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z And the old man, simply and deeply overcome, paused a moment, endeavouring to comprehend the baseness of this world of which he knew so little. Iermola 2011-10-06T02:00:40.637Z I have visited and had a long conversation with the young abb� brought from Saint-Lazare, and have made strong representations to him on the baseness of the calumny of which he has been guilty. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Besides which there was her habit, her beautiful system, of consenting to know nothing of human baseness or of the vulgar side. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z Men appeared to me from a new point of view; their baseness disgusted me, since now that I was rich they treated me so differently from when in poverty. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Now advert to Gregory VII., elected in 1075, and see what baseness, trickery, avarice, and insolence have been consecrated as holy in the character of a vicar of Christ. Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues 2011-10-12T02:00:43.383Z If any one had taken it into his head to prove to the convicts all the baseness of mutual denunciation, no one in the prison would have understood. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z And you, sir, if you are in want of money, take some; after the baseness that you commit at this moment, there remains only this for you to do. The Princess of Bagdad a play in three acts 2011-09-15T02:00:11.723Z This nobility professed love of the chivalric virtues, and hatred of anything resembling baseness or disloyalty. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z "It is nothing short of treason!" broke in Dame Boucher, who although ignorant of arms, nevertheless perceived the baseness of the act. The Executioner's Knife Or Joan of Arc 2011-09-13T02:00:34.817Z Yet, despite her realisation of his baseness, she could not hate the man. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z He offered the most repulsive example of the kind of degradation and baseness to which a man may fall when all feeling of honour has perished within him. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z It was a Thermopylæ reversed, with a friar for its Leonidas; a Balaclava galloped upon quicksands; and it redeems a long catalogue of baseness. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z I cursed the degenerate aborigines, the dirty-breasted host who dared to keep such an inn, the sordid villagers who had the baseness to squat their beastly human nastiness in this upland valley. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z There was still that conviction of utter baseness—his own baseness—to torture him. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z The baseness which some natures reveal is a form of degeneracy,—a sign of mental abnormality. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z The name of convict had no effect but to prepare him for new acts of baseness, and more hideous villainies than any he had previously perpetrated. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z There were universal complaints of the Sultan's want of energy, of his weakness, and his baseness. The Moors in Spain 2011-08-29T02:01:09.183Z Yet there was something about the physical quality of the woman, unlovely though she was, which preserved the occasion from utter baseness. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z But he knew that deep in his inner consciousness lurked the dread knowledge that Taylor was aware of his baseness. The Ranchman 2011-08-27T02:00:21.017Z This, however, is among the least of the basenesses of him of whom I speak. Lost Sir Massingberd, v. 1/2 A Romance of Real Life 2011-08-25T02:00:34.720Z The effect of his baseness was to aggravate my moral suffering, already sufficiently cruel. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z “What I do,” he says, “is owing to perfect rage and resentment, and the mortifying sight of slavery, folly, and baseness about me, among which I am forced to live.” Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z Kitty's bright eyes met mine, and we obeyed that mysterious human impulse to smile triumphantly at the spectacle of a fellow-creature occupied in baseness. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z Yet in this fatal convulsion of the church, generally all were struck with blindness and baseness, that a paper proclamation made them all run from their posts, and obey the king's orders for their ejection. A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods 2011-08-21T02:00:31.760Z It is certain, however, that few men have ever detested more strongly than he did the baseness and meanness of arbitrary power. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z I was terrified by the mass of baseness and cowardice in the midst of which I had been thrown. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z It is not so reprehensible as the former, but it has still a certain character of baseness. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z You look at me curiously, doctor, but my brain is perfectly clear, and I see everything now as it really was, his cowardice and baseness! Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z But passion fed on rebuff, and the maddened nobleman now sought to gain his end by a baseness which many another of his kind, no doubt, would have had recourse to much sooner. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z I have learnt that a true and noble nature has been wrecked by the baseness of man. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z What a monster you are to have the thought of such baseness arise in your young brain! A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z All remorse is more or less accompanied by shame; yet the shame is greater for actions which indicate a certain baseness of soul. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z It is little better than a baseness founded on ignorance. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Of such baseness had that man's revenge been capable! For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z This may show that Shakespeare was alive to the baseness of a spaniel-owner, but not that he appreciated that self-less affection which he describes. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z To submit to baseness and ingratitude with meekness; but Peggy could not bring herself to clasp Benedict Arnold’s hand in greeting. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z Backbiting may arise from ill-will or thoughtlessness, and slander is the work of baseness and perfidy. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z It was the old story of the warfare of baseness against nobility, falsehood against truth. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z He accuses her of licentious behaviour with himself; and as the girl hears the horrible lie, paralysed at the baseness of the accusation, she never dreams that answer is possible to make. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z On closer critical inspection, it is further discovered that their testimony betrays the baseness of their origin by its intrinsic worthlessness. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z In my station, thank God, no one need conceal the truth, or defend baseness, to fulfil the duties of his office. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z “The verse always savors of the baseness of the heart.” Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z But no matter through what mire of baseness and brutality they dragged Him, haling Him from trial to trial--nothing robbed Him of the majesty of the Redeemer! On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z With cool, deliberate baseness, he forsakes me; With scorn as steadfast shall my soul repay it. The Count of Narbonne A Tragedy, in Five Acts 2011-07-03T02:00:12.153Z Do you then suspect me of the baseness,—nay, do you mean seriously to impute it to me,—of introducing “names” “to swell the number” of witnesses on my side? The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z The quality most admired is courage; the greatest baseness, cowardice. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Hatred changes into contempt when there is joined to it the idea of the baseness and inferiority of the person who is hated. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Malicious voices echo far and wide, cynicism exults--baseness has conquered, the divine has become a laughing-stock for children--the Passion Play a travesty. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Yes; and her heart will not suffer her to be convinced as easily as you have been of the baseness of a man whose name and hand she was about to receive. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Not content with taking credit to himself for all that was gained by your extraordinary bravery, he has the baseness to attack your character!... The Widow Barnaby Vol. II (of 3) 2011-07-01T02:00:14.900Z "Good heavens! is such baseness possible?" was all that I could utter. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z That I have never done this, you owe to my reluctance to betray to the baseness of one in whose veins runs the same blood as in his. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Christ had dealt a rude blow to all that was base in human nature, but baseness was the greater power, to which even God must succumb while He remained a dweller upon earth. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z "He's frank enough about his baseness at all events," said Rupert, and then continued the letter. The Mandarin's Fan 2011-06-09T02:00:17.540Z There was no one to supervise his conduct toward us; no appeal from his baseness or cruelty, unless his acts were so flagrant and unconcealed as to call down the vengeance of the laws. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z The pension of three hundred a year obtained for him of the crown by his influential friends was not the reward of baseness or of political tergiversation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z She had to bring a villain whose baseness she thoroughly knew to justice. The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z One thing alone remained unchanged, one image only was untouched by any tinge of baseness amid the turmoil of emotions seething in her heart--Freyer. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Might she not, with propriety, demand an interview, and lay before him the consequences of his baseness? Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:26.023Z Why," cried Ingeborg, her eyes bright with grief and shame for this steady persistence in baseness, "why, I don't think you're to punish me! The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Mr. Buckle speaks of "the incredible baseness of that ignoble voluptuary who succeeded George III. on the throne." The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z The Philistines rejected the traitor's aid, and saved David from the consummation of this baseness. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z There was still the torture that had come when she had learned the baseness of her husband. The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service 2011-05-28T02:00:24.557Z He was more and more unwilling to seem a mere adjunct of the baseness he unveiled. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Even when acting, thought Ingeborg, there were depths of baseness the decent refused to portray. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Words would be too weak to describe Castlereagh's cruelty and baseness towards his own countrymen, or his infernal conduct in connection with the Government of England. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z Entire human nature seems at his disposal, and he reproduces the different scenes of life in their beauty and deformity, in their grandeur and baseness. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z I suppose this is some vile equivocation; you have done worse, you have had the barbarity, the baseness, to attempt to poison his dog; the poisoned meat was found in your pocket last night.' The Parent's Assistant Stories for Children 2011-05-18T02:00:12.733Z It would be plenty to give him a new start in life, plenty to pay him for the trouble he had gone to, plenty even to pay him for the baseness of his present position. The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z In his evidence before the Rural Committee of Inquiry, he has mutilated, travestied this sitting, where the Radico-Liberal bourgeoisie laid bare all its baseness. History of the Commune of 1871 2011-05-07T02:00:33.113Z Earl Grey even admits that "Our national annals, since the Revolution of 1688, present a sad picture of the selfishness, baseness and corruption of the great majority of the actors on the political stage." 4th. The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z What faults, what basenesses occur in the dark, which do not receive merited chastisement! Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Mrs. Turner's face flushed with anger as she read of the baseness of Horace Christian. Overshadowed A Novel 2011-05-07T02:00:24.483Z The Americans behaved in the same way as bin Laden: with treachery and baseness. Obama decides not to release bin Laden photos 2011-05-05T00:43:47Z The Americans behaved in the same way as Bin Laden, with treachery and baseness. Arabs question bin Laden's killing, sea burial 2011-05-04T14:36:39Z Buckle speaks of "the incredible baseness of that ignoble voluptuary." The Impeachment of The House of Brunswick 2011-05-31T02:00:34.353Z And almost all cities, like almost all people, appear to be capable alike of baseness and nobility. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z They were subject to all the meannesses and all the baseness of the least noble of their worshippers. Life of Saint Monica 2011-04-25T02:00:07.817Z Nothing that he or Irène said or did could add to his baseness and infamy. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He, like many another farmer, got into difficulties, and the pitiful meanness and baseness of his landlord have ruined him. Seed-time and Harvest A Novel 2011-04-18T02:00:12.023Z In a flash his baseness was laid bare to me; and the first sensation of numbing pain dumbed me. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z The service I have done you is cancelled by your discovery of the baseness of the instrument. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z Beware! for no deed like that of tyranny and baseness ever passed unpunished. Tales from Blackwood Volume 8 2011-04-09T02:00:09.087Z I could only have effectually answered her by voicing my convictions of her baseness, and that would have driven her away. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z There was something so horrible in the baseness of a mind thus revelling in its own duplicity, that even Nalty seemed struck with dread. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:06.657Z Who but Southey would have had the baseness, under the pretext of reviewing the work of one man, insidiously to make it nest work for hatching malicious calumnies against others?... Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z "I know what's in it," muttered Ladarelle, in confusion, for he was not quite inured to the baseness he had sunk to. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z For enforced repression tends to produce ugly temper, baseness, or subtlety, according to the child's temperament, which is also in imperfect social harmony, if not absolutely quarrelsome. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z Passion lent me strength to strip her baseness bare, and no whit did I spare her. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z She did not know the baseness of that love on his part. At Large 2011-03-27T02:00:14.907Z If you suspected this man of baseness, you simply gave away your own unworthy thoughts. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z I had no very high opinion of his character--particularly lately; but I could not have supposed him capable of such baseness and cruelty. Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z Whence, then, comes the baseness, or the treason, which dictated to it such a vile falsehood!' The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution 2011-03-21T02:00:09.090Z When thoughts of self-conceit enter, let us shut the gates of our hearts against them, and make an act of profound humility and sorrow, seeing our own nothingness and baseness. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z You had even the baseness to corrupt our servants, the sailors employed by us, and encourage them to rob their masters and bring to you the ships and goods they were entrusted with. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z It was an ugly laugh, a laugh that betrayed the baseness of the man, the treachery lurking within. Settling Day 2011-03-08T03:00:36.623Z But gallant freemen man our guns— No mercenary host, Who barter for their honor’s price, And of their baseness boast. Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 2011-03-06T03:00:22.800Z It could not be, it could not be, that she had deceived and deluded him; but if she had—ah, what baseness, what treachery! The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Sure, if they were, why would n't we be prepared for their baseness and iniquity? The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z One is provoked by enormous wickedness: but one is ashamed and humiliated at the view of human baseness. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z To me unworthy of it; 'twas my baseness, My foul ingratitude—what shall I say more? Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z How could I have prepared such a snare, and even were it in my power, how have I ever given you the right to think me capable of such baseness? The Romance of a Poor Young Man A Drama Adapted from the French of Octave Feuillet 2011-02-23T03:00:30.700Z She sighed to sit at the feet of a Byron, grand and gloomy and discontented, baring his white brow to the midnight blast, and raving against the baseness and ingratitude of mankind. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The natural baseness and depravity of the human heart! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z It gives us no tolerable middle way between baseness and greatness. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z I compare thee, with respect to the fairness of thy professions and the baseness of thine intention, to the falcon with the partridge.” Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental 2011-02-22T03:00:06.247Z You'll have learned by this that a lie never prospers—that in the long run it confronts you again when least expected, to make your cheek burn with your own baseness. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) 2011-02-17T03:00:17.787Z The over-haste of the Puritans to drill England into ways of morality and virtue had thrown at least the upper classes into a slough of revelry and baseness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History 2011-02-12T03:00:32.473Z On the other hand, the transition to the baseness of the Renaissance,—without the intervention of the pointed style,—while not so marked here as elsewhere, is yet even more painfully impressed upon one. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Can't you perceive that when a man will descend to such baseness to obtain money, there is no measuring the depth he will go to when pressed to pay it?' The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II) 2011-02-04T03:00:20.520Z I could not betray her baseness except as a last resort. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z For since Caterina's clay-cold form was laid in the Moscow churchyard, and Paul and I have been brought the nearer together for the void, my son has opened my eyes to my baseness. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z So much kindness on your part, and so much baseness on mine! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Did I feel myself guilty of such baseness, I should despise myself more than you could possibly do. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z She felt indignation and disgust at Bertram's baseness, and she was covered with shame that she should ever have had the slightest confidence in him or given him a right to claim her hand. Too Rich A Romance 2011-01-19T03:00:22.440Z I wanted to confront her with her baseness, and demand an explanation of her wanton wickedness. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z In the same letter he writes, "I am minded to issue a broadside to Charles and the nobility of Germany against the tyranny and baseness of the Roman curia." Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume II) 2011-01-11T03:00:31.950Z It is the baseness, the horrible ingratitude, of men. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. IV. (of IV.) 2011-01-05T03:00:52.520Z He would have liked to strangle him, and over the pangs of disappointment floated in his conscience, like a fog, the sense of his baseness towards his friend. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Thus with marvellous clemency he overcame, at last, their baseness. True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z Formerly he had been unfettered indeed by conventional rules but free from any great duplicity; and now, his mind had been cultivated but was sunk in a depth of baseness. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z Gerd Nohl, the presiding judge, described the killings as “murders that could hardly be outdone in terms of baseness and cowardice — beyond the respectability of any soldier,” The Associated Press reported. Ex-Nazi Guilty in Wartime Murders 2010-03-23T14:27:00Z She was unskilled in the fine art of conversation, had only the inborn purity of her thoughts to protect her; and yet she half read this specious flatterer, and felt, rather than realized, his baseness. The Girl From Tim's Place Frederick, as if waking up with a start, saw the baseness towards which she was urging him. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z While, you, you, inordinate, Speak baseness so unto your brother's wife? Porzia Juvenal exhibits the virulence of national animosity towards the Greeks of his time, as well as a well-founded scorn of the moral baseness of character exhibited by many of them. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil Surely scheming baseness could never go so low! By Birth a Lady Linklater, to his eternal credit, devoted the greater part of the five minutes to an abject apology for his baseness and ingratitude. "Pip" A Romance of Youth Then, turning away his face, which reddened with shame as he realised the baseness of the suggestion, the young man added, with a swaggering air: "Very likely his wife pays him back for it?" Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z Ali translates this with a voice shaken by emotion over the human baseness that could forget such gifts. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open And their dull baseness is the more torturing to a modern reader because it is an enduring type. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius "I remember, that, at the temple of Tlascala, thou didst aver, that, notwithstanding the apparent baseness of her origin, it had been discovered that she was descended of very noble parentage!" Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico And now the whole baseness of it, and the news of the marriage with the brewer's daughter, to come on her so suddenly--as if a trusted friend had thrust a knife in her breast. A Divided Heart and Other Stories Their baseness does not take me by surprise. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 No one saw more clearly than he the baseness of the destruction of Carthage and the cruelty of the sack of Numantia; yet it was he who, as general, had to carry them out. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men And so, he is proof against the spitefulness of fortune and the baseness or violence of man. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Know then, that, for thy baseness, the gods have pronounced thee unworthy to be their viceroy, and thy people have confirmed the decree. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Besides, it never occurred to me that cruel suspicions and disgusting ideas of baseness were wriggling round me, like little snakes that peep out from between the rough stones in a ruined wall. Where the Path Breaks For a moment he had fallen to that baseness; it might be that only because life was going out of him so fast was he past such purpose now. The Unknown Sea That he and his brother should be accused before the Roman people was to him an unbearable sign of ingratitude and baseness of mind. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Even the mob of Rome, for whose fickle baseness Tacitus has a profound scorn, now and then reveal a wholesome moral feeling. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Thy father is a most traitor-like and backsliding villain," said Don Amador, "and this baseness in him should entirely cancel in thee the bonds of affection and duty; for thou art not of his nature. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico With all his old passion he disowned the son capable of such baseness, and constituted Waldemar his sole heir, save the legacies left his daughters. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories You are ignorant of this, my son; your honourable mind can entertain no such baseness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 I do not understand baseness, dishonor, and the perfidy of one who has forgotten he is French. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors He was also a pedant who concealed from himself his own baseness by a scrupulous devotion to ancient forms even in religion. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius And dost thou think," said the neophyte, "that these oily words will blind me to thy baseness? or that they can deceive me into belief, when thy actions have so foully belied them? Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico Ingratitude is the extract of baseness, the essence of blackness, the ergot of meanness, a concentrated poison, the spawn of a demon—the fuel of Pandemonium. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Feeling the difference between sins, in their elements and, as far as we see them, their baseness, he treats them variously. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. God may have knowledge of everything, only not of this baseness. The Wish A Novel The love and devotion of women shine out more brightly than ever against the background of baseness. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius Horrible were the basenesses practised in this man-hunting, and connived at by the governments. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. The baseness of Arnold's treason was increased in blackness by his subsequent conduct. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution His ineffective attempts to find any traces of Madame de Fermont, and the ignominious baseness of the vicomte, who had preferred a life of infamy to death, overwhelmed him with grief. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 One may expiate some tragic guilt, one can even expiate some great crime, but a piece of baseness such as I committed, cleaves to the soul for ever! The Wish A Novel Treating love as cavalierly as a man treats it, she pushed as far, nay, further, than a man, devotion, generosity, courage, and, above all, intense horror of all baseness. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 Yes, for this is baseness,—pure cowardice; and the proof is, that for three days I have not dared to write to Martial, my lover, my conscience is so bad. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 3 of 6 Every kind of baseness was practised by the ecclesiastical and temporal judges; the most contemptible grounds of suspicion sufficed to depopulate whole villages. Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. And yet, though I had to lock you up in a prison, so that no one might hear of your baseness, you shall not abdicate your rights. Majesty A Novel Now observe the baseness of the human heart! The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico Nothing is more frequent and more afflicting than those insensate, barren prodigalities which we have now described, and which always entail ruin, loss of consideration, baseness, or infamy. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 He sometimes appeared to regard her with an eye of pity, 134 but it arose from a consciousness of his own errors, bordering on baseness. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Sir," replied I, "your present assurance only serves to aggravate the baseness of your character; and there was a time when I would have chastised your insolence for presuming thus to appear before me. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 She took her little porringer: Of me she shall not win renown: For the baseness of its nature shall have strength to drag her down. Rhyme? And Reason? Their utter disregard of honor and unparalleled baseness were disgusting to him as an honorable man, whilst their corruption and readiness for deeds of meanness were offensive to him as a Christian. The Progressionists, and Angela. "He deserved," says he, "no praise, but rather the greatest infamy for his baseness; since it is as vile an act to wound a prisoner, whether noble or otherwise, as to strike a dead body." View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 He evidently fell a victim to disappointed pride and remorse at the remembrance of his own baseness. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact I reposed my heart upon thine honor, and have found its baseness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Who has not known something of the agony with which one dark deed of passion, lust, falsehood, knavery, baseness, can torture a human heart? Misread Passage of Scriptures She only half caught the enthusiasm of the neighbor to her right, over an address on village improvement, or the indignation of the dames to the left, who were rehearsing the political baseness of Massachusetts. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Great God! to what baseness would she not be obliged to descend; what infamous enormities would she not have to sanction, under the pretext of State policy! Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. He sometimes appeared to regard her with an eye of pity, 134 but it arose from a consciousness of his own errors, bordering on baseness. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact "If I consented to the vile contract, it was that, when I discovered your baseness, any refuge was preferable to being the wife of one like you!" Roland Cashel Volume I (of II) Always lively, generally witty, he is never eloquent, except when emptying out his vials of indignation upon baseness in all its shapes. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Much practical baseness and servility is due to this base and servile creed. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Do you propose to the Emperor of Germany to become a partner in your baseness? Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. He evidently fell a victim to disappointed pride and remorse at the remembrance of his own baseness. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Casti-Piani, upon whose forehead the most degenerate baseness is written in letters of fire! Pandora's Box A Tragedy in Three Acts O cowardly boy! for that base word includes All baseness, doth not shame kill thee, Or fear chill thy dastard blood to an ice, At sight of that most noble injur'd ghost? A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 A good genius saved me from doing so, and I did not even utter one word of reproach for his selfishness and baseness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII Although his relations with the Emperor were such that he had long lost all self-consideration or respect; even his spirit revolted at the baseness of the step which he was advised to take. Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. But this epigrammatic confession of his own weakness and of the baseness of those who environ him, does not seem to me a full expiation. On the Heights A Novel For nothing could more distinctly mark the baseness and malignity of the Jews than their manner of shifting ground when they brought Jesus before Pilate. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II I see all your mean baseness: pursue your scorn. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 The baseness confounds my senses and makes my heart to sicken. The Abbatial Crosier or Bonaik and Septimine. A Tale of a Medieval Abbess Miss Edgeworth does not paint him in repellent colors, but lets him reveal his baseness little by little, and rather against his will, until the final catastrophe presents him in all his native vileness. Maria Edgeworth He craved the secret which even the most obscure Elizabethans seemed to have possessed, that unearthly power of harmony which could fuse all baseness in a glittering song. Plashers Mead A Novel Man’s baseness was the test, The text of His all-power, its proof made manifest. Satan Absolved If you can kneel to baseness, vex them not; If you disdain to kneel, wash off this blot. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 Therefore, meanness and baseness go out of fashion just as whining goes out of fashion on a football team. Careers of Danger and Daring There is not in the compass of language a sufficiency of words to express the baseness of your king, his ministry, and his army. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence I now know the utmost of his baseness. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois And then Dorchester fancied that she had noticed that when such a suspicion had come upon them they had put it hastily aside and locked it up and abused themselves for such baseness. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary Why, 'tis the scorn of all; therefore be rul'd By thy departing brother, do not mix With so much baseness. A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 To call them forth at once, and charge them with their baseness towards me; to dare them openly, and denounce them before that crowded assembly—was my first rapid thought. Jack Hinton The Guardsman There was an epidemic of baseness over the land, and but few escaped the contagion. Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience She knew that baseness and uncleanness existed, and yet clung to her faith in greatness, nobility, and purity. Landolin Wherever Lenz appeared he was compassionated for the baseness of his father-in-law in thus robbing his own son. Edelweiss A Story They themselves held their peace as to what they had done, and, when pressed, referred—crowning baseness—to reports. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel To all seeming, indifferent to the oft-repeated appeals of misery, went by officials, army officers, smoking cigarettes, drunken sailors, and such women as a seaport educates to baseness. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington But there, I know the baseness of your heart. The Sapphire Cross Rascals imposed upon her, and amused themselves in sending her on fruitless missions, and would even give her directions whose baseness she could not suspect. Landolin I could have overlooked a relapse into his old gambling vice, but this—this baseness! Sir Hilton's Sin There was a certain fatherly tone in Sonnenkamp's voice, as he praised Eric's transcendental benevolent intents, at the same time warning him of the baseness of the whole brood of human creatures. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine I confess the baseness of this treachery sickened me. One Of Them But the rebels were weakly led: the greater nobles had for the most part been bought by grants of ecclesiastical lands; and Norfolk, for all his moral baseness, was an experienced and able soldier. The Wives of Henry the Eighth and the Parts They Played in History At the very first step he took all false pretenses fell away and a furious cry of revolt against the baseness of the world and the bondage of life broke forth. Michelangelo We hasten to show that we do not ascribe greater political baseness to one party than another. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Was it for this that a mind was endowed with all the treasures of knowledge, that they might be turned into toys, and masks, and cloaks of baseness? Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Pleasant philosophy that so easily accounts for every baseness and even villany by showing that they are popular. One Of Them "I don't believe it—I don't believe there is that much baseness in a human heart." The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Was there ever such baseness as that of Louis? Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier The revelation of the other’s baseness was like the betrayal of some sacred rite. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half He must lie; it would be double baseness if he did not shield himself with lies,—himself and her! Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine So, then, there is some baseness yet left for him," said she, bitterly, "and I 'm almost sorry for it. One Of Them And, as it is always found congenial to baseness of heart, the most dastardly cowardice completes the description of that of the Chinese. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem Enraged at their baseness, I had commenced my descent, to punish their perfidy, when the terrible sound of a dog's voice broke upon my ear. The Adventures of a Cat And a Fine Cat too! The solemnity of other faiths had no place in her creed, which was free, too, of their baseness. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern That same influence which keeps the mother from her child teaches Montalembert to glorify the corruption, cruelty, and baseness which in the government of the papal states put the gospel itself to shame. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) It is no common baseness that seeks for its victim the widow and the fatherless. One Of Them Never did the history of any court afford such instances of villainy and all the baseness of intrigue as that of the pope's. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem But sorrily will the great folks be encouraged to relax their exclusiveness, either socially, or as proprietors of parks and picture galleries, by representing them as doing so merely in a spirit of baseness. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) All kinds of vice and baseness, every sort of moral infection, every species of distress were there. Toilers of the Sea In women the qualities of the body are beauty and height; those of the soul are temperance and love of work, without baseness. Greek Women After several years had elapsed, this man sought to pass the limits of friendship, and had the baseness to seek to draw her away from the path of honor. Women of England He saw in the slave system those inner depths of cruelty and baseness which Andersonville and Port Hudson have lately revealed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 Pope has omitted every allusion of the kind, and has treated the baseness of the squire as if he regarded it in the light of a joke. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition They feel a satisfaction in the freedom of degradation, and cast an eye of envy at baseness, sitting at its ease, clothed in ignominy and shame. Toilers of the Sea “You wouldn’t do such a action?” said Bags, in a tone strongly expressive of disgust at such baseness. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 To get the upper hand over so many accommodating directors, an entirely new standard of effeminacy and baseness is required. Priests, Women, and Families The filthy condition of the ship, the degradation of the yacht Carmencita to the baseness of the Kalkis, and his own spiritual exaltation, reacted to fill him with an extraordinary vitality of anger. Command The effect, they said, will be, "to open a scene of baseness and foul-dealing that will sufficiently show to mankind his character and conduct." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition You have allied yourself with a mean, dishonorable caitiff—a creature in whose character baseness and wickedness meet; and who has no natural affections. Christine A Fife Fisher Girl It were well if deceit and falsehood, if heartless treachery and calculating baseness, were all that went forward here. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas My reason seemed to her cowardice, my resignation baseness. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors England would ring from end to end with horror at his baseness. A Life Sentence A Novel The proceeding in P. T. would have been to aid in propagating the proofs of P. T.'s "baseness and foul-dealing." The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition It would serve you right to cleave you to the ground for such an insult, and we can only treat such a proposition as arising from the baseness of your own heart. Memoirs of the Extraordinary Military Career of John Shipp Late a Lieut. in His Majesty's 87th Regiment People fancy that they must fight for a possession no matter how miserable, and do not observe that the spirit of romance excites them to annihilate all useless baseness. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. His noble-mindedness renewed my virtuous resolutions; I was ashamed of my baseness and even of the fact that it had cost me so hard a struggle. Tales from the German Comprising specimens from the most celebrated authors Heaven has ordained that the fruit of our mutual guilt shall appear as the witness of my baseness and of Mary's shame. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion As she mentions Theseus, and recalls his baseness to Ariadne, she points to the tapestry on the wall before them, where the story is woven. Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens Then the chief Chamberlain, "O vilest one Of all the Arabs! wilt thou not be done Bandying thy baseness with the Ruler of The Faithful?" spat upon his face. Days and Dreams Poems They move in a world which is polished, agreeable, dignified, averse to baseness and vulgarity, but in which conscience and religion scarcely seem to exist. Studies in Contemporary Biography I could tell you of plenty similar cases, which have made me hard and unfeeling when I have been met with ingratitude and baseness. The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II Wilson knew that to a man like himself there was degradation in such a calling; and he latterly vented his contemptuous sense of it, exaggerating the baseness of the name and nature of packman. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The true baseness is in the bitter reverse—the strange iniquity of our folly. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) His delicacy shrank from the baseness of this conjecture, but his reason, as well as his experience, suggested that the thing was not impossible. The Return of the Prodigal The few shocking and savage traits of the Micronesian he has singled out with the skill of a collector, and planted in the soil of his original baseness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) This chanter of birth and death, disgusted by the banality of existence, has given us, under the title, "The Little Demon," a pathetic picture of human baseness and sordidness, which cannot be read without emotion. Contemporary Russian Novelists I could tell you more such like cases; and these things have made me hard and insensible to emotion when I have to deal with folly and baseness. Weird Tales, Vol. II. And the greater the artist, the more cruel the portrait: cruellest in representation of utter spiritual baseness in the two greatest of these idealistic decorators; Giotto, and his latest disciple, Fra Angelico. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II And there is no greater baseness in literature than the habit of using these metaphorical expressions in cold blood. English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century The career of the Earl Lovel had been to him a sure proof of the baseness of English aristocracy generally. Lady Anna Gradually all the baseness of the world becomes clear to him. Contemporary Russian Novelists If we should paint human nature with a baseness of heart, an hypocrisy, from which all must recoil and humanity disavow, it would be the portraiture of kings, their ministers and courtiers. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 "The noble mind which I feel, on account of this youthful lady who has appeared, makes me despise baseness and vileness," says Lapo Gianni. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II I despised lying as a weakness, cowardice, meanness, the concentration of baseness. Talkers With Illustrations It is yours of right, as my name has been mine of right; and not to assert it, not to live up to it, not to be proud of it, would argue incredible baseness. Lady Anna But he has no right whatever to impute corresponding baseness to others. Inspiration and Interpretation Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford Independently of the moral effect of these deceptive practices upon your own character, is there not in the acts themselves an inherent meanness and baseness, from which a pure-minded youth would instinctively recoil? In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education It makes us wink with leniency at the dishonour, the baseness, the cruelty, to which all this easy virtue is due. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II He does not idealise the sex, like George Meredith, nor yet does he describe the baseness of the Eternal Simpleton, as do so many French novelists. Ivory Apes and Peacocks She made many resolutions; but the first was this, that she would never smile upon the girl again till this baseness should have been abandoned. Lady Anna Uncle Mo may have detected, through the mere blood-poisoning of the prison, the inherent baseness of the man, or may have recoiled from the type. When Ghost Meets Ghost It is a triumph over cowardice, baseness, the love of ease and safety, all the paltrier aspects of our nature; but a triumph over death it is not. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' They lost the effect proposed, but had that, which the show of baseness and violence ever produce on a mind truly virtuous. A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America And there came over him a passing feeling of jealous anger, together with a natural indignation at the baseness of these two—the one his love, the other his friend—who had both betrayed him. A Castle in Spain A Novel And the hearer thought as did the speaker as to the baseness of this marriage with the tailor,—thought as did the speaker of the excellence of the marriage with the lord. Lady Anna O, you are made of baseness!” said she. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) He has set forth to conquer and subdue the world, including the stupidities and basenesses of his own nature. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' Having taken sufficient note of all the baseness of mind which these facts indicate in the people, we shall not be surprised to find immediate signs of dotage in the conception of their architecture. The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) I threw myself on the ground,—I grasped the earth,—I gathered myself as it were into a knot, and howled with horror at my own selfish baseness. Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters I both could and did; and you will live to thank me for that baseness. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 5 (of 25) That incarnate baseness has sunk down, down, too deep for resurrection! The Fate of Felix Brand In the process of soothing her, of course, I made light of her self-confessed baseness. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography “It is not that which saddens me; it is the baseness of those who try to prevent the people from choosing me.” The Casual Ward academic and other oddments Between his dexterity in availing himself of circumstances and his betrayal of Littleton, between the folly of some men and the baseness of others, he has appeared the most prominent character in the drama. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. III Was he dead, slain by his own hand in the baseness of his own heart? The Bondboy And to any one who evades the legal marriage bond, there is a vast range of betrayal and baseness as open as anything can be. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism What wretch art thou, whose misery and baseness Hangs on my door; whose hateful whine of woe Breaks in upon my sorrows, and distracts My jarring senses with thy beggar's cry? Jane Shore A Tragedy Penitence that brings only a headache is like plating over brass; it cannot long conceal the baseness of the thing that lies beneath. The Rustler of Wind River To command him for the sake of commanding is an abuse of power: it is a baseness which will end in disaster. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts For in nothing is his superiority more greatly manifested than in the fact that monsters of baseness, or even thoroughly base men, figure so rarely among his dramatis personæ. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 Vice must be deserted for its inherent baseness, even though it may bring a great reward. Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series How those great outlines lowered at me in the twilight, full of fresh memories and grim anticipations of baseness and violence and bloodshed! The Passionate Friends The defect of character betrays itself in some erroneous mode of thought or baseness of sentiment. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) I expect to see a vast deal of shabbiness and baseness and turmoil, and in the midst of it all I'm sure the inspiration of patriotism will sometimes fail. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Is the wit, characteristic of baseness and every ill quality, capable of attaching the heart and winning the affections? Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare What do we think of a person here who shifts his sins upon another and while that other suffers he goes free and enjoys the fruits of his baseness? Elementary Theosophy Unless––unless she suspected the baseness of her lover and his father, and fear had replaced love. In the Shadow of the Hills But now as his uncle spoke the scales fell from his eyes, and he saw all the baseness, all the villany of the monarch and his satellites in its true light. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 The unfortunate child of Monteblanco had now the most unequivocal proof of her lover's baseness and treachery: Gomez Arias was faithless, but what an aggravation of guilt attached to his infidelity! Gómez Arias Or, The Moors of the Alpujarras, A Spanish Historical Romance. After constructing in his own image a divinity blinded by human passions, man attributed to him, from fear of vengeance, sentiments of anger and indignation regarding his baseness and malice toward his neighbor. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Nobility had sprung out of baseness many times in the painful history of human progress. The Duke Of Chimney Butte The priest-ridden journal speaks of its fellow patriots as caluminators and liars, tries to describe their "baseness," their "inconceivable insolence and inconceivable stupidity," and breaks down in the effort. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Is not the man or woman fortunate who never comes face to face with the ingratitude, the treachery, the selfishness, the baseness and the sin which are the accompaniments of civilization? A Waif of the Mountains Odious she may be, but she is great,—too great to be bribed to baseness by a paltry fee. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 For the baseness of the soul consists in not being pure and sincere. An Essay on the Beautiful From the Greek of Plotinus In such a pretence as that simulated passion—the ultimate baseness, breaks down, creates no illusion, and is foiled. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Laugh at danger, far or near; Spurn at baseness, spurn at fear. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose Men such as Sheridan, Fielding, and Foote, would have represented him as a hypocrite––a feeble and unnatural mixture of baseness and cunning. Leading Articles on Various Subjects This dignity having veiled the obscurity and baseness of his birth, he was sent proconsul to Africa, where he died, after having obtained the honors of the triumph. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. True above all one may call him; a man of perfect veracity in thought, word and deed; there was no guile or baseness anywhere found in him. War Letters of a Public-School Boy I must remove Some thousands of these logs and pile them up, Upon a sore injunction: my sweet mistress Weeps when she sees me work; and says such baseness Had never like executor. Mummery A Tale of Three Idealists Again, in more mature age, who is so unlike a man as not to be moved to a dislike of baseness and approval of what is honourable? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero In the year 1807 there were confined in a common Western jail, amid a swarm of wretches of every degree of baseness, two men as unlike as storm and sunshine. A Breath of Prairie and other stories Grant declined to accept the invitation; and Lewis, after spitting in his face in the presence of several of the French officers, left him to reflect on his baseness. Chronicles of Border Warfare or, a History of the Settlement by the Whites, of North-Western Virginia, and of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the Indian Wars and Massacres in that section of the State Sired and "Cousined" by Lunatics And is there no excuse for so much baseness in high places? Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess She had, however, told him that Bertram, from whom so much was expected, had shown himself a poltroon and, what was even worse, had allowed an innocent man to suffer for his baseness. Blake's Burden For you admit that there are many good things besides honour, and many evils besides baseness; and it is inevitable that the wise man must fear such when coming, and grieve when they have come. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero “But you shall––everything––all my cowardly baseness!” Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation His baseness was well known to the town, for he was one of those whose tongues reveal their degradation as soon as they are intoxicated. They of the High Trails It was easiness which had induced him to condone a baseness in his nephew which he would have been the first to condemn in a stranger. The Wild Geese He saw his own baseness and his own folly; but he did not see God's love. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The villain Quilp and his tool make us forget, in the amusement which they cause, their own baseness. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History She had not yet grasped the baseness of what he had thought and done. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation One more evidence of the man’s baseness, his unscrupulous cunning. Tharon of Lost Valley We had not known that such cruelty, such baseness was in the world and it stood away in such violent opposition to the teaching of our fathers and uncles that it did not corrupt us. A Son of the Middle Border The world seemed out of joint; the radical ugliness and baseness of man an insult to the purity and sweetness of nature. Beside Still Waters I was so shocked at the ingratitude and baseness of the action that I burst into tears. Forgotten Tales of Long Ago It had been self; self, blind in desire, cruel when blindness left it: there had been no real love and no fidelity to redeem the baseness. Amabel Channice Immediately after this reverse the Polish general, Zaionczeck, lost the battle of Chelm, and the Governor of Cracow had the baseness to deliver the town to the Prussians without attempting a defence. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History With us shall right and morality, truth and faithfulness, win the fight against wrong and baseness, malice and falsehood. Gems (?) of German Thought It had the baseness to call General Scott from the head of a victorious army, and to attempt to disgrace him in the eyes of his own country and the world. Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors And, after some time, the stock of toleration bought at the price of this baseness was exhausted. The Countess of Albany Whatever may have been the baseness of Rome under the Cæsars, it was equalled by the corruption in France in the reign of Louis Philippe. Louis Philippe Makers of History Series We are too happy to find critics like you, who stand up against such conventional baseness, and preserve the tradition of honour for human nature. Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 By fair application and long industry my wealth has been obtained; and it shall never justly be said, that the reputation of my latter days was stained with acts of baseness and meanness. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father Oh, he didn't understand, he had no idea why I ran to him, he can suspect nothing but baseness, he judged me by himself, he thought every one was like himself!” The Brothers Karamazov And the baseness, unhappily, was there: baseness of absolute corruption, or of scandalous levity, even in the noblest. The Countess of Albany It is not easy to settle the order of precedence among his vices; but we are inclined to think that his baseness was, on the whole, a rarer and more marvellous thing than his cruelty. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Wendell Phillips has shivered the English language all to pieces in attempts to describe the baseness and utter worthlessness of the Republican party. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II The night he had taunted her about her mother she had taken the measure of his baseness; but she was glad she had helped him to escape. Otherwise Phyllis “Yes,” murmured the other, “a coward and a traitor can but commit baseness and perfidies.” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora To him, who could conceive no virtues beyond independent truthfulness, such things were mere sentimental trash, mere hypocritical nonsense beneath which base men hid their baseness. The Countess of Albany To kiss one girl and mean it for another was, in the Keysian Code of morals, to be guilty of a baseness. The Dop Doctor Hence, as I have just said, the preference for them does not imply original baseness, but only lack of higher energy. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life “The baseness of the French,” pursued Our Missis, “as displayed in the fawning nature of their Refreshmenting, equals, if not surpasses, p. 82anythink as was ever heard of the baseness of the celebrated Buonaparte.” Mugby Junction I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The consequence of this state of things is humiliating to relate, since it shows to what baseness the most high-minded among us may be forced to degrade themselves. The Countess of Albany It is also dangerous to make him see his greatness without his baseness. A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory I did not see that I was often trafficking in unworthiness and baseness.” Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Not to believe that would be to saddle those in authority with a less than human baseness. The Message They had been scandalized by the rudeness, the baseness, and the brutishness, of rabble supremacy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 It banded the Athenians and their allies together in the most enthusiastic and determined spirit of resistance, against a man who had now added the baseness of treason to the wanton wickedness of tyranny. Darius the Great Makers of History His conduct to the American officers was marked with peculiar baseness and indignity. A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. But from the way in which he describes them one feels that he despises their ignominy, and that he is indignant at their baseness. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant The miser cannot realize the baseness of his avarice, nor the mercenary soldier the enormity of war. Buchanan's Journal of Man, August 1887 Volume 1, Number 7 What was this but a baseness, of which no honest man could be capable? Rosin the Beau She’s careful to preserve her own position in the eyes of her lover, knowing quite well that to tell the truth would be to expose her own baseness. The Seven Secrets "I may have been wrong to say baseness in this chamber, however base the worthy Goose may be; and, therefore, with permission of our worthy Grand, I will substitute 'hardihood.'" The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm Now the pessimist, in whose eyes baseness and ignominy are the very essence of man, is no longer capable of indignation or contempt. Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant He was astonished at the baseness and depravity he found there. A Handful of Stars Texts That Have Moved Great Minds I had learned little, save the one thing that was all the world,—that I could not commit a baseness. Rosin the Beau No words can do justice to such baseness as that!' The Giant's Robe "A personal explanation is always allowed," said Robinson, indignantly; "nor did I think that any member of this chamber would have had the baseness to stop my voice when—" "Order—order—order!" The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm There it was soon apparent that he possessed powers of mind equal to the baseness of his conduct. Lectures on the French Revolution And why then should baseness of birth be objected to any man? A History of Elizabethan Literature By God, the sun in the heaven has looked upon such basenesses that I seek only a patch of shade. The Fifth Queen Crowned It was inconsistent on his part, since he had sacrificed much for the very object of concealing from her the baseness of Mark's metal. The Giant's Robe The Christian Church has left nothing untouched with its depravity, it has made a worthlessness out of every value, a lie out of every truth, a baseness of soul out of every straight-forwardness. Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature He has all the nobleness of that temper, but also all its baseness. Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving The exhibition of the baseness of parasites and of the wrath of a noble mind embittered, is contrived, varied and heightened with intense dramatic energy. William Shakespeare After reading accounts of the case in half a dozen papers she could not doubt that her father was justly condemned, and she was horrified at the baseness of the crime. The Explorer It is not easy to conceive of a greater degree of baseness, turpitude, and cowardice, than is manifested by this conduct. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810 From this I became aware that Eva had convinced him of the baseness of the falsehood. The Fixed Period No expressions would be too strong to characterize the social homogeneity of an Indian tribe, and the complete domination of the accepted ideas of right and wrong, of honor and baseness. The Indian Question (1874) Timon, the great-natured, truly generous man, whose mind is as beneficial as the sun, cannot be currish, nor stoop to the baseness of revenge. William Shakespeare If there is any part of man's conduct which proves more conclusively than another the baseness of his ingratitude, it is his indifference to the Fading Flower. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) For the final impression one carries away, after reading Nietzsche, is the impression of "distinction," of remoteness from "vulgar brutality," from "sensual baseness," from the clumsy compromises of the world. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Will any of your correspondents be good enough to explain the circumstances which gave rise to the adoption of "farina" as a term expressive of baseness and disparagement? Notes and Queries, Number 76, April 12, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc The manner in which Judas concluded his foul crime was in perfect keeping with its essential baseness. The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition He is a swollen, soured, bullying man, with all the ingratitude of a king and all the baseness of one who knows his cause to be wrong. William Shakespeare Nothing, of course, can palliate the extreme baseness of your behaviour. Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers They have sought on the other hand to inspire sentiments of mere baseness; but neither is this man’s condition. Pascal Thus all real joy and power of progress in humanity depend on finding something to reverence; and all the baseness and misery of humanity begin in a habit of disdain. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing And how little the Soil or Climate hath influenced or caused their Courage to degenerate towards cowardize or baseness of mind. The Pirates of Panama or, The Buccaneers of America; a True Account of the Famous Adventures and Daring Deeds of Sir Henry Morgan and Other Notorious Freebooters of the Spanish Main In order properly to appreciate the baseness of Reed's conduct, it is necessary to consider the circumstances under which it occurred. Nuts for Future Historians to Crack The baseness of it all came as a shock, even on the top of their knowledge of the man's deep treachery. Two Daring Young Patriots or, Outwitting the Huns Looking from such a height of human dignity, he sees all the depths of p. 191human baseness. Pascal He shall not live to profit by his baseness.” A Cousin's Conspiracy A Boy's Struggle for an Inheritance Anarchy.—The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Pearls of Thought As she told how Madeline had exposed to her the baseness of Percy, Mrs. Ralston started up, her face pale as death, and then sank back in her chair. Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter I turned defiantly, and addressing myself to the invisible as if it were a living creature by my side, I cried, “I must not, will not, do such an act of baseness.” A Stable for Nightmares or Weird Tales The baseness of the metal of which they are often made, and their consequent small value, precludes the possibility of their having belonged to royalty. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture Fitly representing either of these, though born in a Christian city, and bearing about not only the stamp of violated physical law, but of moral neglect and baseness. Humanity in the City We find in the plays the same novel philosophy: "Some kinds of baseness Are nobly undergone; and most poor matters Point to rich ends." Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History You must keep your word to him—it would be an act of baseness to break it. The Hero of Garside School The difference is only, that I soon stript truth naked, and that I acknowledged and felt my own baseness, and that of all mankind, of the world, and everything in it. The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck The inscription upon it is—sans bilinie—“without baseness,”—a motto that may have been adopted by some Bayard of the Middle Ages. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture They show the dryness and the baseness of our social state. Humanity in the City Roman vileness and baseness disgusted Augustine even more than Punic insubordination. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Some years have elapsed since this episode, but a thousand times I suppose the scene has arisen to rack Henry H. Rogers with bitter memories of his baseness. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated He had, moreover, repented of his baseness to his former friend, though death prevented him from showing what his repentance was worth. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura It is no mark of baseness to be unfortunate; "but these must endure," what Zeus lays upon them. Homer's Odyssey A Commentary “What do you think of this baseness, reverend sir?” inquired Mr. Force. Her Mother's Secret We have constantly reflected in our "good society" and "fashionable world" every baseness and vulgarity that is invented outre mer, particularly in Paris. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 He had kept close track of all that had occurred, and the facts he revealed, calloused as I was to the thought of Addicks' baseness, horrified me by their cold-blooded villany. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Women of common beauties and low births, When they are slighted, are allowed their angers— Why should not I, a princess, make him know The baseness of his usage? Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical Monsieur Gillet, the advocate for the parents, represented, in the boldest and most affecting language, the extreme baseness of this religious seduction. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Oh, shame, on you for your baseness, for your vulgar, low suspiciousness!... The Light of Scarthey Once, for one moment, I was still willing to be yours; but I remembered what you would think of me if I should so fall, and I repented my baseness. The Bertrams If that is not enough, they must act as they please; but I will not 'teach my tongue a most inherent baseness,' come what may.... My Recollections of Lord Byron It was Tanqueray, with that passion, that diabolical lucidity, that vision of his, who had made her realize the baseness of her secrecy. The Creators A Comedy |
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