"Base" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... while he thrashed about in his cup with a spoon, much as he might have wielded a glass rod in a delinquent mixture. Then, his spoon poised in mid air, he asked, with a sudden show of curiosity, "On what do you base your theory, Olive?" ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... its very base, and the rock rocked. I threw myself upon my face, and clung to the scant herbage in an excess ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester
... rejoiced I had got out of his clutches!—So I write you this, that you may see how matters stand; for I am resolved to come away, if possible. Base, wicked, treacherous gentleman ...
— Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded • Samuel Richardson
... determinist. Logical Pantheism rules out the possibility of sin against man or God—"for who withstandeth His will," seeing that He is the only real Existence? Let a further quotation make this plain. "What," asks Mr. Picton, "are we to say of bad men, the vile, the base, the liar, the murderer? Are they {49} also in God and of God? . . . Yes, they are." [5] And this amazing conclusion—amazing, though involved in his fundamental outlook—is sought to be defended on the ground that we have "no adequate idea" "of the part played by bad men in the ...
— Problems of Immanence - Studies Critical and Constructive • J. Warschauer
... is in erring human will, and this will is an outcome of what I call mortal mind, — a false and temporal sense of Truth, Life, and Love. To 12 heal, in Christian Science, is to base your practice on immortal Mind, the divine Principle of man's being; and this requires a preparation of the heart and an answer 15 of the lips from ...
— Rudimental Divine Science • Mary Baker G. Eddy
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