standing-point

And we claim further that by investigations of the higher phenomena of mesmerism, and of the automatic action of the mind, we have confirmed and expanded this view in various directions, and attained a standing-point from which certain even stranger alleged phenomena begin to assume an intelligible aspect, and to suggest further discoveries to come.

Henry Sidgwick Schultz, Barton 2006

We now, from this standing-point, therefore, completed our inspection of all Kebrabasa, and saw what, as a whole, was never before seen by Europeans so far as any records show.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Whatever she saw she judged, as most women do, from her own standing-point.

An Autobiography 2004

Still everybody here stuck to his own rights, and would knock down anybody across them, though finding it very nice to talk as if others could have no such standing-point.

Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

It might remain in the background as the future standing-point for some great political struggle, in which it would be again necessary that every Liberal should fight, as though for life, with his teeth and nails.

Phineas Redux 2004

He felt completely carried off his moral and intellectual legs, as if he had lost his standing-point in the invisible world.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

In the preface to the Confession, which Owen is understood to have written, and from which we have already made some beautiful extracts, this blessed temper shines forth in language that seems to have anticipated the standing-point to which the living churches of our own times are so hopefully pointing.

Life of Dr Owen 1965

Baxter and he held substantially the same truths, their views, even when they seemed the most divergent, differing in form and complexion more than in substance; but still it is evident that the two great men had each his distinct and favourite standing-point.

Life of Dr Owen 1965

But the one who missed had rather a difficult task to perform, for the rule of the game was that he must be blindfolded and carry the successful player round on his back until he could go directly from the standing-point to the Dioroe.

Harper's Young People, March 16, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

There were the marks on the turf where his easel and camp-stool stood; there was the spot his feet were wont to press, and her own standing-point against the glimmering gorse; but that was all.

Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911