juste milieu
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This disputatio in utramque partem—this debate for and against—is certainly calculated to drive us into accepting the juste milieu morality of Aristotle; a conclusion that is also supported by the following consideration.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature by Saunders, T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey)
In stirrups, as in most other things, there is a juste milieu; and if the American dragoon is on one side of that, so is the Arab of the Desert on the other.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
One's toilet must be a delicate compromise between ball attire and full visiting dress, but Mademoiselle Melanie has hit the juste milieu; and succeeded in carrying me through all the perils of Scylla and Charybdis.
From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt
The juste milieu of brandy, so favored in 1832, if we can believe Mr. Hamilton, was not thought of in 1857.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
He is the juste milieu of the day, and, biding his time, he offers to his contingent supporters “chameleon’s diet—eating the air promise-crammed.’
From The Real Gladstone an Anecdotal Biography by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
