To unravel plots and weave counterplots; to meet treachery with fraud; to parry force with sleights of hand; to credit human nature with the basest motives, while the blackest crimes were contemplated with cold enthusiasm for their cleverness, was reckoned then the height of political sagacity.
basest הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד