This living in a world which we do not heartily acknowledge as our own; this subjection to an authority which we do not in principle recognize and welcome as the voice of our own better, larger, wiser, social self,-this is constraint and slavery in its basest and most degrading form.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
The person who yields to this basest of temptations is utterly unworthy ever again to have a friend.
"Practical Ethics"
William DeWitt Hyde
1537, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, a man of great wealth, unbounded ambition, and one of the basest characters of the age, was possessor of Dudley-castle, and the fine estate belonging to it:-He wished to add Birmingham to his vast domain.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton