juste milieu

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She and Clarendon are so totally opposite, that it is quite absurd, and I only believe the juste milieu....

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount

Last year a noble address was delivered by R. W. Emerson, in which he broadly showed the juste milieu views upon this subject in the holy light of a high ideal day.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

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

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