But I hope you don't call yourself my 'enemy'?" "I don't know of a more appropriate nameafter the baseness that you haven't even tried to hide, in your dealings with me.

Austerlitz is the most brilliant battle of history; the Nephew set himself this problemhow to commit a baseness equal to this magnificence.

or is it because you find me with red hands that you presume such baseness?

He exalted the dignity of labor, and scorned all baseness and lies.

To paint this baseness, nature is too base; This darkness yields not but to beams of grace.

Alessandro, later on, was made to feel the baseness of his origin, for he was greeted contemptuously as "Alessandro da

"Sir," replied I, "your present assurance only serves to aggravate your baseness.

Had the earl of Mulgrave been guilty of any offence, capital, or otherwise, the ministry might have called him to account for it; but their contriving, and the king's consenting to so bloody a purpose, is methinks such a stain upon them, as can never be wiped off; and had that nobleman and the ship's crew perished, they would have added actual murther, to concerted baseness.

She comes to Christ for mercy, He repelleth her, reproacheth her, tells her she is a dog; she confesseth her baseness, is not discouraged for all that, but still resteth upon the goodness and mercy of Christ, and is mightily resolved to have mercy whatsoever befalleth her.

That is what her aunt, a terrible woman named Martha Dean, told me, although now I know it was a lie, told to cover her own baseness in sending an unprotected child to the far West to seek an unknown uncle.

He heartily despised the fellow's unutterable baseness, but reflected that he had been an old friend of his father's.

The following letter to Giovan Simone shows how terrible Michelangelo could be when he detected baseness in a brother: "Giovan Simone,It is said that when one does good to a good man, he makes him become better, but that a bad man becomes worse.

When I watched her as she walked on the veranda I was tempted to reveal myself, and disclose your baseness.

And were it not, such baseness I disdain; I would not stoop, to purchase all above, And should contemn a power, whom prayer could move, As one unworthy to have conquered me.

The early missionaries who had to combat the influence of the Arioi may have exaggerated its baseness.

"This world is a great ball where fools, disguised Under the laughable names of Eminence and Highness Think to swell out their being and exalt their baseness In vain does the equipage of vanity amaze us; Mortals are equal: 'tis but their mark is different.

"What," said he, with the utmost contempt, looking to the party, "is there any one that wishes to exhibit his devoted baseness?

But when the power is affirmed, and something else is denied, the words are written separately; as, "The Christian apologist can not merely expose the utter baseness of the infidel assertion, but he has positive ground for erecting an opposite and confronting assertion in its place."Dr.

She has no father; you be a father to her instead; and impress upon her in fatherly fashion the baseness of her conduct, and the fact that she must obey my commands.

But I more fear the baseness of the thing: Remorse, you know, bears a perpetual sting.

Will you forgive my baseness; and take me, and teach me, about this Father in heaven, through poverty and wealth, for better, for worse, as my wifemy wife?

Neither is it admissible to represent the misfortunes of a thoroughly good man, for that is merely painful and distressing; and least of all is it tolerable gratuitously to introduce mere baseness, or madness, or other aberrations from human nature.

Indeed, a high-spirited London Jew-boy will not stop at Mogador, though the adult merchant will, to get money, for mankind often learn baseness with age, and pass to it through a golden door.

I'll flatter no such proud companions, 'Twill do no good, therefore I am determin'd To leave such baseness.

But I disdain to plead my cause with so unwomanly a heart,that measures the baseness of others by what it knows of its own.