The baseless law of the Jew is only the religious caricature of the baseless morality and of right generally, of the merely formal ceremonies which pervade the world of egoism.
This view may appear reasonable; but when we examine those first sentences themselves, we find that some of them do not agree with the obvious meaning of the odes to which they are prefixed, and give only rash and baseless expositions.
They respond to you withbaseless stories, And (thus) robbers and thieves are in your court.
Among the many mistaken ideas which obtain currency in England with regard to Spain, perhaps none is more common or more baseless than the fiction about Don Carlos and his chances of success.
And a husband should be very careful about even suspecting a wife unjustly, and thus make the first step towards rendering his baseless suspicions a reality, his unjust accusations justified.
More than one man has, by accusing his innocent wife of infidelity and by torturing her with baseless suspicions, driven her into the arms of a lover.
Edie was too young to regard her as anything but an audience for long and baseless fits of weeping.
But they who accept a [supposed] omniscient on the baseless word of a parviscient know nothing of the meaning of a real omniscient's words.
No friendly bay thy shattered barque received; Ev'n when thy dust reposed in ocean cell, Strange baseless tales of hope thy friends deceived Which oft they doubted sad, or gay believed.
It is quite remarkable how this dwelling on baseless criticism by subjects is accompanied by a constant tendency to invoke the protection of the sovereign, or, in other words, of James I.
On some baseless charge of attempting the dissection of a living subject, the Inquisition haled Vesalius to prison, and would have put him to death "as mercifully as possible," but for the intervention of King Charles V.
We will hail the French Revolution, as shipwrecked mariners might the sternest rock, in a world otherwise all of baseless sea and waves.
Jerome might be the author, was characterised quite openly by Carlstadt as “a baseless supposition,” and his proofs as “frivolous arguments by which he sought to discredit the Epistle of James.
Keep thou thy power from Roman sword secure, So long as loyalty with faith endure; I swear it: ay, the Emperor shall learn The guiltless from the traitor to discern; His persecution baseless as his fear.
Shall we regard these aspirations as idle longings, and this consciousness as a baseless fancy?
It would be a waste of time to explore this field, wherein the baseless dreams of philosophers and scientists have grown like Jonah's gourd, over-shadowing the barren sands.
Ye venerable Sages and holy Flamens, is there probability in your conjectures, truth in your stories, of another world beyond death, or are they all alike baseless visions and fabricated fables?
We have an adequate cause for the fusion of rock at local points without resorting to the baseless hypothesis of perennial lakes of lava, etc.
But though a baseless vision in itself, this airy spectacle assumed very familiar features to Pierre.
The actual artificial objects around him slid from him, and were replaced by a baseless yet most imposing spectacle of natural scenery.
Until then he does not advance, only deceives himself and readers by verbal subtleties and baseless suppositions.
It pleases and satisfies superficial views, but confronted with the facts of nature, it vanishes like a baseless vision.
And so we are not indulging in baseless fancies when we say that we know what passed in that conversation, of which no word ever escaped the lips of either party concerned.
And in that case, the structure which they have built up throughout a decade of years, with such evident self-complacency, collapses "like the baseless fabric of a vision.
Westcott and Hort, is purely arbitrary: a baseless imagination,--a dream and nothing more.
The idea that the greatest moral power which has ever appeared among mankind has had no other origin than a baseless delusion is supremely melancholy.
