juste milieu
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The system of the juste milieu means little more than to profess one thing and to do another; it is a stupendous fraud, and sooner or later will be so viewed and appropriately rewarded.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore
This last is a juste milieu view by no means in favour with the inhabitants of either place.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
As an attempt to prove that the juste milieu met with popular approbations I think the experiment was a failure.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore
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
And the mode of thinking thus designated is already manifesting its importance by one of the most unequivocal signs, the appearance of thinkers who attempt a compromise or juste milieu between it and its opposite.
From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart
