| 单词 | equipoise |
| 例句 | I was neurologically developing as she was neurologically regressing, and that winter we were at a moment of equipoise. A Place Beyond Words: The Literature of Alzheimer’s 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z In those moments, the explorer's body is losing its lifelong fight against the equipoise which nature always seeks. Anatomies by Hugh Aldersey-Williams; Extremes by Kevin Fong – review 2013-02-24T00:07:13Z Through every change of style, Thorn’s voice — low, smoky and pensive, rarely indulging in vibrato or ornamentation — gave the duo’s songs an emotional equipoise. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z The writing of code and the writing of fiction exist for him in tense equipoise; “the stark determinisms of code,” he writes, “were a welcome relief from the ambiguities of literary narrative.” How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z Even the Northern European countries they repeatedly hold up as examples went through a fair amount of social strife before reaching their happy social- democratic equipoises. Authors dubious that economic growth leads to happiness 2011-12-08T21:37:04Z Microphone box and pesky neighbor aside, Ms. Schumer was the picture of equipoise. Amy Schumer Teams With Judd Apatow on 'Trainwreck' 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Their dances show us the architecture of their relationship: the tensile strains, the outward-leaning curves, the hesitant equipoise. Friends – review 2013-06-29T23:05:32Z Modeling the required equipoise gets sharply more difficult mid-mission when Sergei begins to suspect that the simulation itself is simulated and that they are actually on Mars. Review | The first step to Mars takes place in the Utah desert 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z He started taking illegal performance-enhancing drugs, including testosterone, equipoise and nandrolone, two years ago. Gym, eat, repeat: the shocking rise of muscle dysmorphia 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Creative feeling and creative thought are always in equipoise — and I’ll give you a fine exemplar in my answer to the next question. Martin Amis Is Committed to the Pleasure Principle in Books 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z If Mr. Watts marshals his percussive energies as a cyclone, Mr. Nash more readily suggests a strong breeze, a study in steadiness and equipoise. Music Review: Winds of Jazz: Energies of a Cyclone and an Ebullient Breeze 2011-01-19T22:51:35Z Fellner is a serious fellow, and the polite formality of his platform manner and the outstandingly sustained equipoise of his playing seem designed to exclude all displays of self. Till Fellner – review 2013-06-26T16:59:42Z Everything is held still and in perfect equipoise – the sky above, the river below, the bridge a pale platonic ideal over the silver water. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z Whether in port or at sea, Strangelove holds herself in marvelous equipoise. Mary Wells 2009-11-01T00:00:00Z It’s also safe to assume that Chuck McGill will try hard to make Jimmy’s equipoise impossible. ‘Better Call Saul’ Season 2, Episode 2: What’s Hoboken Got to Do With It? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Their temperaments were decidedly different: Elizabeth was self-assured and occasionally grandiose; Emily was quieter and more methodical, though her apparent equipoise concealed an inner turmoil. Two Sisters Who Changed the Medical Profession 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Her voice finds equipoise in those mixed emotions. Rosanne Cash Takes the Long View on ‘She Remembers Everything’ 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The real goal, he suggests, is not the final eradication of the Jews but the constant eradication of the Jews — a re-establishing of what one government official calls the “equipoise of hate.” Book review: ‘J,’ by Howard Jacobson, is a chilling tale of our anti-Semitic future As we picked up the action a decade after said wedding, we found an unhappy family enduring in a kind of uneasy equipoise. ‘House of the Dragon,’ Season 1, Episode 6 Recap: A Scandal Spills Over 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z Often we think that if we are not happy, it's our problem, and we just have to show more grit, or the new terminology, more "mindfulness," and we'd achieve greater equipoise. Held down by our bootstraps: The myth of American individualism is a poor excuse for inequality 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z When it’s complete, the mobile sits in perfect equipoise. Perspective | How do you rehang a massive Alexander Calder mobile? Very carefully. 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Principle of clinical equipoise principle that states that randomized trials should be conducted in a way that balances the interests of participants and aims of science. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “There was a sort of equipoise to make it happen,” he said. Chuck Schumer Has Found a Way to Get It Done. So Far. 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z It seems secrets can persist in uneasy equipoise with widespread knowledge of their existence. Opinion | The power to keep secrets is gone 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z The official term for that stance sounds both scientific and strangely poetic: “clinical equipoise.” The Covid Drug Wars That Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z If you valued lumbar support above clean design, you would likely opt for another chair; but, as a piece of sculpture that you could plop down on, the Wassily chair’s equipoise has never been surpassed. The Man Who Built the Bauhaus 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z The principle of clinical equipoise offers a way to conduct randomized trials in a way that balances the interests of participants and aims of science. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z My father’s health had attained a confusing state of equipoise. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z It requires an emotional equipoise, a blend of relaxation and concentration, stamina leavened by cheerfulness. Opinion | Amy Klobuchar may be best equipped to send the president packing 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z Clinical equipoise is an elegant characterization of a humble admission: I have no idea which of these two choices is better. The Covid Drug Wars That Pitted Doctor vs. Doctor 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z His default expression is one of good-natured equipoise, relaxed but attuned to the minutiae of the shifting world around him. Yan Lianke’s Forbidden Satires of China 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z If it obtains, clinical equipoise suggests that a trial does not sacrifice the interests of participants in the pursuit of scientific information and data. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z These little affectations only add to the overall equipoise, in the same way that a completely bare waiting room is eerie but a waiting room with a ficus evokes no feelings at all. Letter of Recommendation: Airport Layovers 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Lucie ran the Columbia poetry program with perfect equipoise, taught her classes, held meetings, hired visiting poets — all on her own schedule. Stay, illusion: a tribute to Lucie Brock-Broido by Carol Muske-Dukes 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z The exquisite equipoise of Lamar’s wordplay makes him a strong contender, and the same is true to a slightly lesser extent with Big Sean. Grammys 2018: who will – and should – win the major categories 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z The best dessert wines amount to lessons in the lost art of balance, where sugar sweetness and restorative acidity are held in such suspension that neither gets the upper hand, just pure, unfettered equipoise. 4 wines for the holidays that splurge on flavor 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Policymakers sometimes need to “hold two contrary ideas in equipoise,” he explained. Opinion | Mattis and Trump: The odd couple that works 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z At a social occasion earlier this year, someone asked Michelle Obama how it was possible for her husband to maintain his equipoise amid so much hatred. Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z The sport of the long season requires emotional equipoise, a continuous combination of concentration and relaxation. The task ahead for today’s conservatives 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z “I’m in equipoise. I really hope it will, but I’d like to see the evidence at scale.” Mosquitos to be infected with bacteria in fight against Zika virus 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Barnett noted that veterans get extra points only “when prospective candidate qualifications are in equipoise,” meaning when a veteran and non-veteran are equally qualified for the job. American Legion: Pentagon officials ‘turned their backs’ on veterans to get around hiring them 2016-06-20T04:00:00Z The back nine of Augusta on a Sunday required Spieth to find the equipoise between two warring impulses, to be aggressive and to be conservative. Nicklaus, Palmer, now Jordan Spieth: The Masters has tripped them all 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z So it’s a question of finding the right equipoise. Hillary Clinton's Resurrection 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Such power would result if its branches behaved as partners in harness rather than as wary, balancing rivals maintaining constitutional equipoise. On Obamacare, John Roberts helps overthrow the Constitution 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But research on the biomechanics of wearing heels, including a new study of the effects on ankle strength and balance, says of her equipoise: “Ha.” Science Weighs in on High-Heels 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z In his editorial Hacke writes that “it is premature to conclude that there is no longer equipoise regarding thrombectomy. We need and will get results from other well-designed trials.” New Devices May Bring Improved Treatment To Stroke Patients 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z America’s Newtonian Constitution might again function according to Madisonian expectations if a provoked Congress regains its spine and self-respect, thereby returning our constitutional architecture to equipoise. A case for self-restraint In making their case, the authors question the meaning of “equipoise,” a fundamental ethical principle behind RCTs that says investigators should not know whether an intervention is better than what’s offered to the control group. Issues continue to dog the testing of Ebola drugs and vaccines 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Likewise, its equipoise near the mid-point of the Mississippi marked St. Louis as a fault line between North and South. Anger fills the information vacuum in Michael Brown shooting 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z The two small apes shared their space for three years in mostly affectionate equipoise. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Numerous senators and Washington columnists almost totally lost their equipoise over the droning down of my great fellow American Anwar al-Awlaki. To Hell with Karzai 2013-03-12T08:45:00Z Daily he attacked her pride, her self-respect, her bodily health and her mental equipoise; but most of all she suffered in her love—that terrible flower of passion that refuses to die. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Explain to her again and again that she must keep up in her life a sort of equipoise of receiving and giving, if the highest sense of inner satisfaction is always to be her portion. Farm Boys and Girls 2012-04-21T02:00:21.733Z The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He enjoyed the great world, and it treated him well; but he resolutely maintained his personal independence and the equipoise of his feelings and judgment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z All on board were in possession of their customary equipoise. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z His first inaugural is a masterpiece of intellectual equipoise and energy. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The glory of Mr. Lincoln's power lay in the just and magnificent equipoise of head, conscience, and heart; and here his fame must rest or not at all. Abraham Lincoln, Volume 2 (of 2) The True Story of a Great Life 2012-01-05T03:00:32.877Z To bring to an equipoise, as the scales of a balance by adjusting the weights; to weigh in a balance. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But beautiful as they are, they may, like many other beautiful things, want a due equipoise. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He had not recovered his mental equipoise, and in spite of his long, sound sleep, he was still badly jaded physically. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z The full capacity of his mind was taxed unceasingly, in order to secure to his ripening judgments their majestic equipoise. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z So long as equipoise is sustained by the perfect balance of the contrary curves, so long each re-inforces the other to support a heavy superstructure of development. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z To have equal weight on each side; to be in equipoise; as, the scales balance. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z There is, in Pepys' Diary, a delightful illustration of the swift transitions by which the mind in times of stress seeks to keep its equipoise. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z By this course he escaped the usual provocations to ill-temper, and was forced upon an undisturbed equipoise of mind. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z It was royally deliberate, the issue of prolonged reflection, the goal of mental equipoise and rest to which his searching, balanced thought had long conduced. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z The man of the world will enter the palace of the prince and the cottage of the peasant with the same equipoise of manner. Creed And Deed A Series of Discourses 2011-10-12T02:00:40.147Z The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z I then heard Awhile the plea, how there in equipoise God's Mercy stood against His Righteousness, 50 By weight of reason held. Vondel's Lucifer 2011-10-09T02:00:28.557Z Never glancing at the jurors, his facial muscles held in equipoise during cross-examination, he called to mind a lizard sitting in the sun. Gotham: A Glimpse Into the Dark Maze of Election Spending 2011-10-04T02:17:48Z He was splendidly intolerable, this triumphant lover who had recovered his equipoise and was himself of the years ago. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z My dear Laudie," said Gronski, "I can understand that this must have shocked you, and for that reason I will not speak with you of it until you calm down and regain your equipoise. Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland 2011-09-16T02:00:19.893Z Oh, I suppose—it's—it's—it's natural for a young girl—a servant—sometimes to lose her—equipoise, as it were, on occasions. A Proposal Under Difficulties A Farce 2011-08-22T02:00:57.327Z Such is the absurd position we are forced into when we assume that Thought, in equipoise with reality, remains outside of it and leaves it out of its own self. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z A small child, learning to walk, shows that he has an instinctive faculty of adjustment and equipoise and tries early to get his little legs to support his position. Revisiting the Earth 2011-07-12T02:00:36.337Z It is the judgment ever of the sage That happiness is in the average; What better equipoise than you and I, What more assured? The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z Thank God for an inner current of holy life, which flows on, supplying the life more abundant and keeping the soul in blessed equipoise amidst the surging of life's storms. The Palm Tree Blessing 2011-07-11T02:00:05.463Z The Kentuckian's pulsations seem to be regulated by a gigantic and equipoised animal impulse. The Kentuckian in New-York, Volume I (of 2) or, The Adventures of Three Southerns 2011-07-06T02:00:46.297Z I mean the division of the world into persons and things: the equipoise of spirit and matter. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Above all, human interests take a man outside of himself and keep him from disturbing his mental equipoise by too much devotion to a single subject. Psychotherapy 2011-06-19T02:00:20.053Z That same guy could also sense a foreboding behind the equipoise; he knows a dark cloud surrounds every silver lining. You're the Boss: Fire Closes Start-Up Restaurant 2011-06-02T13:12:59Z The early morning air and exercise brought back his physical equipoise. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Victor bewailed his firm oath to his father, and looked on the trembling balance wherein the oath and indulgent friendship hung in equipoise. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z Objective things then, the world of matter itself which we are wont to oppose in equipoise to the person, are in truth not separable from it. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z Lem now walked moderately to recover his breath and to compose and regain his equipoise. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z When I see his ceaseless struggle to keep the heel of his spirit on the neck of his flesh, it suggests a fanatical rebellion against that equipoise God saw fit to establish. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z On the equipoise of that lady's temper depends to a not inconsiderable extent the comfort of the house. How to be Happy Though Married Being a Handbook to Marriage 2011-03-11T03:00:13.410Z Beethoven stands as the model of constructive power and emotional expression in happy equipoise. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z "My father insists that I shall go to Vienna with him to-morrow," begins Sophie, whom nothing can long rob of her inward equipoise. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Having recovered his equipoise, he found himself face to face with a serious if not an insurmountable obstacle. Parlous Times A Novel of Modern Diplomacy 2011-01-13T03:01:14.887Z Brandy reinforced his nerves, and the cautious, defensive tactics of a lifetime availed now to readjust and restore his equipoise of manner. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z Altogether the impression is of a being of mental and moral equipoise, full of energy and noble dignity. Greek Sculpture A collection of sixteen pictures of Greek marbles with introduction and interpretation 2011-01-05T03:01:01.227Z The emotional and intellectual should be in equipoise in order to attain the highest results, but in the music of Brahms the latter seems to predominate. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z In a well-balanced mind, feeling and judgment aid each other; and he will prove the most successful historian who has the two in a just equipoise. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z That sense of equipoise, so Roman in its restrained practicality, presages the rationalism and functionalism of modern architecture. A Wonder From Any Angle 2010-05-29T04:32:00Z Within the year his nervousness and want of equipoise have been apparent, and when the newspapers stated that his 'medical adviser' had recommended rest and Aix-les-Bains I was rejoiced. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z At home again he found that the love which he could neither accept nor conquer was demoralizing his moral and mental equipoise. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The result is a curious hesitation and equipoise between conflicting opinions on the greatest questions. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius This calling was too precarious to suit his equipoised mind. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution No such equipoise can be found, because, in a world where the possibilities of increasing military or industrial power are illimitable, no such equipoise can exist. The Acquisitive Society In this crisis the young lady recovered her equipoise. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories An equipoise between intellect and passion is alone deficient in the nature of the Mexican people, for the savage has not been entirely extirpated from the mingled blood of Indian and Spaniard. History of the War Between Mexico and the United States, with a Preliminary View of its Origin, Volume 1 Calm equipoise of the inner nature, undisturbed by the changes of fortunes or the solicitations of desire, is the ideal of all, under whatever difference of phrase. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The calm tranquillity in his mental equipoise was seriously disturbed, and he welcomed anything which took his mind off himself and his personal affairs. The Bachelors A Novel The letter ended by leaving matters very adroitly at an equipoise. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop With every turn of the head, or bend of a knee, or stretch of an arm, some fresh revelation of physical equipoise delighted the eye. Love's Usuries She had the conviction clear at last; her delicate equipoise—the ignorance of Fillingford against Octon's suspicious but hopeful doubt—her having it both ways, could not be maintained forever. The Great Miss Driver There is reason to regret that the advantages of position, which were essential to the full effect of passages planned for equipoise and mutual resistance, have thus been lost. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Weidmann possessed a firm and unvarying equipoise of character, before which the stormy agitation of other souls subsided. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The poet said that the Aeropher was the symbol of that kind of poetry in which energy and art were in equipoise. The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar The “kettle” was equipoised by lead fixed round its mouth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" It was a delicate equipoise—the least thing might upset it, and in its fall it might involve much that was of value to Jenny. The Great Miss Driver The equipoise designed to be secured in the National Legislature by the House of Commons was defeated because the House was at once dependent and corrupt. The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. One inch more and his fate was certain; but his body recovered its equipoise, and he came back to the wall, where he stood motionless, and almost paralysed with terror. Gerald Fitzgerald The Chevalier Not one is, or perhaps could be, thrown off its equipoise. Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) At the present moment everybody has forgotten the delicacy of this nice equipoise, and one day or other it will lose its balance and topple over into the deep waters, and be engulfed. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June Her equipoise—another of her delicate balancings—was hopelessly upset; when Death flung his weight into one of her scales, the other kicked the beam. The Great Miss Driver The bridge from statics to dynamics is therefore the push from the outside caused by the cooling or heating occasioned by other bodies which influence certain objects in equipoise. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" If it has succeeded anywhere it has been in our favoured country and in our time; and we know not yet how long the wisdom of the nation will preserve the equipoise. The History of Freedom Then you must set your tent-poles in such positions as that the tent, when pitched shall preserve nicely the rectilinearity of the street and its own equipoise. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 "One understands why England is losing her nice equipoise, then, now," murmurs Brandolin. A House-Party Don Gesualdo and A Rainy June But, beautiful as they are, they may, like many other beautiful things, want a due equipoise. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. The absolute condition of equipoise possesses no means by which it can pass into a dynamic state. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" Mr. Reynolds says something, not clearly understood by me, about an equipoise among the political generals. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital The timid, who had doubted the necessity and legality of the act, and feared its consequences, recovered their equipoise, and a reaction followed which strengthened the President in public confidence. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Modern nonsense, weighed against the obsolete, may make the scales tremble for awhile, but it will lose its agreeable quality of freshness, and subside into an equipoise. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Here then can the mighty conception of duty alone hold us erect—I have no other care than to keep myself in equipoise. Records of Later Life The clergyman started, but quickly recovered his equipoise. Carmen Ariza With an equipoise of disposition which is almost provoking, Mr. Frothingham announces as dogmas speculations from whose sweep and immensity the human mind recoils. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 She was upright as a young pine, with the shapeliness that comes from perfect bodily equipoise. The Truth About Woman He had to equipoise the opposite interests of the Catholics and the Evangelists, or the Reformed: it was mingling fire and water without suffering them to hiss, or to extinguish one another. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 He saw with eyes which were inspired by a brain capable of vast achievement, but which possessed none of that equipoise so necessary for a well-balanced manhood. The Law-Breakers But already she was floating free as the softly purring engines held her in equipoise. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930 Sometimes the right was down and sometimes the left; never a happy equipoise—one or the other always kicking the beam. The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2 A motion was made for a new trial; but the court, too, had now lost the equipoise of their judgment, and overruled the motion by an unanimous vote. Patrick Henry A really good singer must possess in absolute equipoise ardor and calm. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 His descendants are now born with a nature which is not in equipoise, but which leans more towards evil than towards good. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Human societies and institutions pass through a similar ordeal, and when they are unhinged, extraordinary and abnormal ways are required to maintain the endangered society and restore its equipoise. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 The Nottingham lad recovered adroitly, and now that the other had his arm low about the enemy's body, his equipoise was readily disturbed. Robin Hood Of the several qualities,—the wakefulness, precision, fullness, equipoise, and docility—that form, in other words, the motion, edge, weight, balance, and direction of the forged and tempered intellect,—I might give many instances. The History of Dartmouth College Others may hold me, too, unworthy because I have not reached that impartial equipoise whence, impassive, I can balance my native land against its sins and watch blind justice deal with it all unconcerned. The Maids of Paradise Every act of sin tends to create a habit, and so destroys the moral equipoise. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The equipoise of speech or of raiment or of appetite was within the grasp of an average human being, but only a few spirits in a generation enjoyed the perfection of love. A Romantic Young Lady It is by means of this equipoise between the mother's talents and the larva's that the Osmia and the Anthophora, in their early youth, escape some part of the dangers which threaten them. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles To insure this result, however, we must add to that fullness of material the quality of mental equipoise or mastery, the power of grasping and managing it all. The History of Dartmouth College It was fortunate that French had taken a saner view of the situation, for the coffee was just what was needed to restore her equipoise. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 Instead of complete friendliness and unfriendliness in early tribes we find more commonly between the two a middle ground of self-regarding equipoise. Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV He believes in the supremacy of the untrammelled, as his poems and pictures show; I, on the contrary, give my voice to equipoise. A Romantic Young Lady Our life is but a struggle For perfect equipoise; Our pains are often jewels, Our pleasures gilded toys. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed At the opening of 1837 there was a marked stagnation in home politics, mainly due to an equipoise of parties and serious divisions in the ranks of the ministerialists as well as of the opposition. The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) It behoved her to move little, for her scarlet dress was very nice in its equipoise, and fain she was to seem fine in Privy Seal's eyes. Privy Seal His Last Venture Why choose a middle course: an equipoise between the two? The Light Shines in Darkness The tempering of such a chain of items until the equipoise is attained must be coordinate with the effort toward the lateral balance. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures By action and reaction We reach our perfect growth; Nor by excess of neither, But equipoise of both. One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed The recovery of mental equipoise proved for a time quite beyond his power. James Watt It may be the result of a momentary and sudden loss of mental equipoise, or the final and fatal ending of a premeditated desire carried through days, weeks, months, and even years. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire An application to the valve equipoise of a marine-engine: their journals or bearings lie in bushes, which are fixed upon the frame of the engine. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. This initiates equipoise, for in the survey of a picture the eye naturally shifts from the centre of interest, which may be on one side, to the other side of the canvas. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Their orthodoxy, compared with his, was built upon a sandy foundation: warm hearts can never hope to sustain, in its impressive equipoise, the head of an Andrew Walkingshaw. The Prodigal Father For a moment, it is true, his anger was divided, stood in equipoise, even dipped "Brodie-ward." The House with the Green Shutters Thomas Paine gave evidences of a lack of mental equipoise. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire Unanimous opinion decided that the famous continent, so long looked for, so necessary for the equipoise of the world, known to cosmographers, as the "Unknown land of the South," was at last discovered! Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century The matter of equipoise or unity therefore applies to most extended areas and no part of this extent may escape from the calculation. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures The latter two so balanced each other, that he could decide for the first by equipoise; nay—the thought growing—that honour had more weight than death. Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Indeed, the figure used therein as an equipoise to "the hindward charms" satirises perfectly the style of writing characterised by inflated thought and imagery. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Love, religion, anger, disappointment, etc., down through the long list of psychic and æsthetic emotions, until it seems as though even a breath of wind would be sufficient to destroy the mental equipoise. Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire It is the most magnificent member of a magnificent building, and with its graceful equipoise and conscious evidence of stability stands alone and in a class by itself amongst the cathedral superstructures of the land. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch The eye finds repose and delight in the perfect equipoise of elements, brought into combination and bound together by the girdle of the frame. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures For illusions, if they last, form as good a working basis for life as reality, and in the Gore household, whether by imagination or not, the equipoise of life had been most skilfully adjusted. The Arbiter A Novel There is an atmosphere of stern, though dignified determination about him, at this trying hour, which, in a man of his admirable equipoise, is a thing for an enemy to beware of. The Campaign of Trenton 1776-77 The mass of property has the same effect on our Constitution, and is a sort of ballast which will always right the vessel, to use a sailor's phrase, and bring it to its due equipoise. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) Men are certainly short-sighted to choose these weak or cold or indifferent women, when there are others with just the right mental equipoise. Floyd Grandon's Honor But the problem of the ministry is to have both in perfect equipoise—to utter a word which is at the same time both a message from God and a message to men. The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 "Pills" ventured a query as to whether the amount of Krug and Clicquot consumed might not have overthrown his mental equipoise. Waring's Peril All these separate claims, embodied in five distinct parties, Lord Aberdeen has delicately balanced and fixed in a temperate equipoise by the machinery of his bill. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. The fruits of his studious labours, as presented in these volumes, attest his diligence, his fidelity, his equipoise of judgment, his fairness of mind, his clearness of perception, and his accuracy of statement. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Now she displayed the equipoise of one who had learned much from self-reliant contact with men. Joan of Arc of the North Woods During the brief pause in which Dr. De Breen coolly surveyed him—for once the perverse glasses observing their proper function—he recovered something of his equipoise. The Paternoster Ruby Notwithstanding this, he never lost his equipoise or acted upon impulse alone, and he never permitted mere appearances to move him. Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 A Political History of Slavery in the United States Together With a Narrative of the Campaigns and Battles of the Civil War In Which the Author Took Part: 1861-1865 A balance of qualities has therefore to be struck, and this perfect equipoise has by no means been as yet attained. Man on the Ocean A Book about Boats and Ships We were assured that the free play of competitive forces was bound to discover the true equipoise. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography He will be self-centred, equipoised, and ever master of himself. Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power But the suspicion, or disgust, which afterwards caused him to erase the name of Gardiner from the list, destroyed the equipoise, and rendered the scale of reformation decidedly preponderant. Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth He will be a self-centered, equipoised, and ever master of himself. Pushing to the Front He was sure of it in another moment, and he urged the horse aside, for the towering column swayed and oscillated as though it strove to recover its equipoise, and then suddenly rushed earthward. The Gold Trail Not at my time of life does the constitution, pushed from its equipoise by long enduring disease, regain it amid the struggles. The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales" Omar builds up no system, he only shows forth his own doubts and difficulties, "he loves to balance antitheses of belief, and settle himself in the equipoise of the sceptic." The Faith of Islam These bridal days are often repeated; the serenity and equipoise of the elements combine. The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers He had watched politics from the Supreme Bench with judicial equipoise and partisan instincts, and by many discerning men was regarded as a highly eligible candidate. Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 A motion was made for a new trial; but the court, too, had now lost the equipoise of their judgment, and overruled the motion by a unanimous vote. The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning Our constitution," he said, "stands on a nice equipoise, with steep precipices and deep waters upon all sides of it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" The conclusion is inevitable that he kept himself in equipoise, and fell at last, as men without convictions usually do, upon the stronger side. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government Still, criticism must continue: the perfect equipoise may never be attained, and yet we must employ the balance, or nothing can be appraised, and traffic ceases. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Primal instincts, unhampered by law, have a swift, sure, short-cut to justice; to the fine equipoise between weak and strong. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward Fink was rather profane, but very amusing; Anton had a certain equipoise of goodness and pleasantness; Baumann was the best of them all, but also the most silent. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Fate has also seen to it that the poet's make-up is seldom conspicuous by reason of a bull-neck, pugilistic limbs, and the nervous equipoise of a dray-horse. The Joyful Heart They are to be kept in proper equipoise. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Von Gelhorn, disturbed by her coming and departure, in that so slight vibration of air caused by her advance and her retreat, swayed as a reed in the wind, stood for a moment seeking equipoise. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 If her own feelings tell her that she considers personal merit as an equipoise to adversity, shall we tell her that outward splendour constitutes intrinsic greatness? The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel The Divine Wisdom limits by equipoise the Omnipotence of the Divine Will or Power, and the result is Beauty or Harmony. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The men stared, even our hero for just one instant lost his equipoise, but he recovered when like a wink he asked, as though no one had entered the room: "What do you do?" Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective Her angelic candor of soul, and the frosty purity which enveloped her as a shield, inspired the tenderest respect; while her happy equipoise calmed and refreshed the restless and expensive imagination of the renowned author. The Friendships of Women If this equipoise is disturbed its obligations are dissolved. The Empire of Love Man is an animal with more equipoise and self-direction. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Apparently and to our human reason antagonistic, the same Reason is not incapable of comprehending how they can be in equipoise. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The loss of their equipoise soon terminates them both; and that is death. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life As a result of this just now in Europe, wisdom is not the arbiter; on the contrary, prejudices, passions, indiscretions, and follies on the part of all the antagonists preserve a certain dangerous equipoise. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View It is the reward of qualities, it gives no more than it gets, it exists by an equal equipoise of service. The Empire of Love And it may be questioned whether a mind acting under so high a pressure is in the best condition to take just views, to preserve its proper equipoise, or to impart wise and healthful instruction. Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Harmony the result of the equipoise of Necessity and Liberty, 848-l. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry And her person had the equipoise and symmetry of her mind. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. But praise would lack the force of moderation and equipoise, if allusion were not made to some of its defects. Gibbon Religion rests with them upon a certain intellectual acquiescence, or upon the equipoise of rational probabilities, or on the compromise of intellectual hesitations. The Empire of Love I observed farther that his aura inclined too much toward violet for perfect equipoise. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) The same Harmony results from the equipoise of Necessity and Liberty. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Being kept in a prudent equipoise it is neither worn away by continual fighting nor enervated by unbroken peace. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator There are two great characteristics about the Party institutions of this country: the equipoise between them, and their almost incredible durability. Liberalism and the Social Problem His creative imagination fell short of the true equipoise, of that just vision of chiaroscuro, which we find in the greatest masters of the human heart. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Herbert began to be mistrustful of the solid earth: somewhere there was a fearful threat to his equipoise. Gentle Julia Nature's single and absolute law, the equipoise of contrary forces, 848-u. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry This period of equipoise did not continue very long, but while it lasted it was beyond doubt the best and strongest period in the whole history of Roman religion. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome And, putting aside its effect on the reader, and through that, on the writer's pecuniary prosperity, the tragedy of want of equipoise lies in this. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Then its permanent and uniform volume, its fullness and equipoise at all seasons, and its gently-flowing currents give it further the character of a lake, or of the sea itself. The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention Grateful are these interludes, and necessary for the preservation of true equipoise, but they are not interesting, and in novels all description of them is carelessly skipped over. Princess He had known that if he should but see her once more, his already toppling will would lose its equipoise, and he would be led to attempt the impossible and invite destruction. When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires: The struggle of the instinct that enjoys, And the more noble instinct that aspires. The Haunted Hour An Anthology He was as near insanity as a man can well be who still retains his mental equipoise. Westerfelt An uneasy equipoise between the Great Powers represented the highest culmination of our diplomatic efforts. Armageddon—And After I admit the supreme freedom of God, but I do not confuse it with indifference of equipoise, as if he could act without reason. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil In such qualification is to be seen the equipoise of the highest order of ability. The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain His judgment was rarely at fault, for his intellect was not swerved by passion or prejudice, but was held in perfect equipoise to receive the truth on both sides of every question. Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session This will bring their conduct, at regular periods, under revision and probation, and may keep them in equipoise between the general and special governments. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Something must clearly be substituted for this uneasy equipoise. Armageddon—And After I agree provided it is not meant as an indifference of equipoise, where there is no reason inclining more to one side than the other. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil When power was thus nicely equipoised, there was a natural tendency to avoid conflicting issues. The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Angels will hover in the equipoise of indecision while clowns will make up their minds. What Necessity Knows Sir Charles needed a moment or two after he had set down to recover his equipoise. The Summons It is not so much an exact equipoise that he desires, as a certain tendency of the scales to dip in his direction. Armageddon—And After By this false idea of an indifference of equipoise the Molinists were much embarrassed. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil But, such as it is, it arose from a lack of calmness and of that mental equipoise which sails unruffled through a sea of contradiction. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century He returned home about midsummer very much improved, but not yet completely restored to a natural mental equipoise. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History The state of equipoise of the three constituent elements, i.e. the pradhâna, is denoted by the attributes of its parts, and is therefore called red-white-black. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate, And the equipoise of heaven is thy house’s equipoise. May-Day and Other Pieces And besides, the indifference which would keep the will in a perfect equipoise would itself be a chimera, as has been already shown: it would offend against the great principle of the determinant reason. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil The second is that, in order to regain the usual equipoise of your mental attitude, you ride to-day, for an hour, in the river meadow. The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century The President doubtless considered the incident one of phenomenal strangeness, but it did not in the least disturb his unselfish judgment or mental equipoise. A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln Condensed from Nicolay & Hay's Abraham Lincoln: A History Now the gunas are admitted to be of an unsteady nature; hence the gunas themselves are able to enter into the relation of mutual inequality, even while they are in a state of equipoise. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya Sacred Books of the East, Volume 1 From being agricultural and mainly self-supporting, Germany transformed herself into a vast and complicated industrial machine, dependent for its working on the equipoise of many factors outside Germany as well as within. The Economic Consequences of the Peace Or again if one maintains that it is still the man who decides by lot, man himself is no longer in equipoise, because the lot is not, and the man has attached himself to it. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil In 1833, the center of political gravity lay far south of the geographical center of the State; by 1856, the northern counties had already established a political equipoise. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics When you throw the weight of Louisiana into the scale, you destroy the political equipoise contemplated at the time of forming the contract. American Eloquence, Volume 1 Studies In American Political History (1896) Having obtained his certificate, he presented himself for enlistment and was turned down on the ground that he was lacking in a sense of equipoise. Out To Win The Story of America in France The accumulative habits of Europe before the war were the necessary condition of the greatest of the external factors which maintained the European equipoise. The Economic Consequences of the Peace But, as I have declared more than once, I do not admit an indifference of equipoise, and I do not think that one ever chooses when one is absolutely indifferent. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil On the contrary, one would say that his strong New England following would act as an equipoise, preventing too great a dip toward the Southern end of the scales. Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics "I am at a loss whether to take it or not," he reflected; "being so, I'm in a state of equipoise until I'm shown." The Cab of the Sleeping Horse In more speculative thought the equipoise of international co-operation reveals itself in the changes which national thought has undergone under foreign influence. The Unity of Civilization The very nation which, on land, fighting against banded Europe, kept the balance for more than a generation at equipoise, on the water was beaten by the ships of one little isle of the sea. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 M. Bayle goes on: 'There are at the very least two ways whereby man can extricate himself from the snares of equipoise. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Our constitution," he said in the Present Discontents, "stands on a nice equipoise, with sharp precipices and deep waters on all sides of it. Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham But in modern civilization a third element has been added, which has brought these two powers of Northern freedom and Southern culture into equipoise and harmony. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology A porter who picked up my hat restored me to mental equipoise. Jaffery In taking leave of the Balkan peoples, we may note the strange tendency of events towards equipoise in the Europe of the present age. The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) Further I will show that there is an indifference in freedom, because there is no absolute necessity for one course or the other; but yet that there is never an indifference of perfect equipoise. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil Making the curve at sickening speed, balanced over everlasting nothingness for a moment of breathless equipoise, they took the trail. Copper Streak Trail On the warrior's asking for an explanation of this state of equipoise, the Deity gives illustrations of the balanced mind that is free from all attachments, serene, emancipated from desires, self-controlled, and perfectly tranquil. The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow But in one respect my mind retains its serene equipoise. Jaffery In the balance of triumphs and failures, however, is to be sought the relative measure of genius--whose equipoise should be the first matter of ascertainment in comparative criticism. Life of Robert Browning For its essence resides in the delicate equipoise it creates between the three powers, the ministry, the House of Commons, and the people. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government It denotes a certain equipoise of the season; the heat of the day fully balances the frost of the night. In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs Inward and outward are in equipoise; he does not make frequent prayers atone for equally frequent lapses in duty. Men of the Bible; Some Lesser-Known Characters How they are perpetually sinking into prodigious ruts, along which the ponderous drays are forced to dance on one wheel in a paroxysm of agony and critical equipoise! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 I discern in you certain qualities of mind that may serve to regulate the equipoise of mine. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 The right attitude for man is that of ignorance, complete uncertainty, the equipoise of conflicting alternatives. Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher What, if from any cause this beautiful equipoise should be disturbed and the mind lose its power to think clearly, or to hold the lower passions in due control? Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink Long may'st thou guard the prize thy humour won, Long hold thy court in Pantomimic state, And, to the equipoise of English fun, Exalt the lowly, and bring down the great. A History of Pantomime That paralysis of Hamlet's will which followed when the evidence of two worlds hung in equipoise before him, no one can possibly understand better than I. Several critics have asked me to explain these words. Aylwin Antonyms: unbalance, derange, preponderate. balance, n. scales; equipoise, equilibrium, steadiness; surplus, excess, remainder, overplus; poise, equipoise; weighing, estimate. Putnam's Word Book Our constitution," in his opinion, "stands on a nice equipoise, with steep precipices and deep waters upon all sides of it. Burke By character we understand a unity of several forces, operating constantly to produce among them a certain equipoise and determinate proportion, to which, if undisturbed, a like equipoise in the symmetry of the forms corresponds. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 05 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English From thy worth and weight the stars gravitate, And the equipoise of heaven is thy house's equipoise. Poems Household Edition In Christ, manly and womanly characteristics were united, and were in equipoise. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses Antonyms: pointless, dull. pointer, n. indicator, index. pointing, n. sharpening; punctuation; designation, indication. poise, n. equipoise, balance, equilibrium. poise, v. balance, librate. poison, n. venom, virus, toxine, toxicant, irritant, taint, bane, ptomaine. Putnam's Word Book It can not fail to affect most injuriously the just equipoise of our system of Government, for it establishes a precedent which, if followed, may eventually sweep away every check on arbitrary and unconstitutional legislation. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson It may truly be said that Greek architecture exhibits the perfect equality and equipoise of vertical and horizontal elements and these only, no other factor entering in. The Beautiful Necessity Seven Essays on Theosophy and Architecture Was it true, as Courtenay thinks, that jealousy of King William's attachment to Temple disturbed the episcopal equipoise of soul, rendering his Lordship slanderous, even a backbiter? The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 In his mental development, there was an almost absolute equipoise between the imagination and the logical powers. Thirty Years in the Itinerancy The semeiotic is its mind; the dynamic is its soul; the static is founded on the mutual equilibrium or equipoise of the agents. Delsarte System of Oratory One of the greatest men of the society was Sim Scruple, who lives in a continual equipoise of doubt, and is a constant enemy to confidence and dogmatism. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler Their power, as well as the importance of their establishments was as yet in equipoise. A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6 It is supposed to be, not a quality, but a condition, or rather an equipoise of qualities and conditions. The Silent Isle Oh, I suppose—it’s—it’s—it’s natural for a young girl—a servant—sometimes to lose her—equipoise, as it were, on occasions. The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces Both struggled for mastery and for the moment without disturbing the equipoise. A Mere Accident He had a magnificent equipoise of head, conscience, and heart. Abraham Lincoln If the balance be not intrinsically perfect, the equipoise can be maintained only by an agitation of both scales. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes As a result, then, of their being evenly matched, their hopes and consequent zeal were in perfect equipoise. Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). There is no temper more unpropitious to interest than desultory application and unlimited inquiry, by which the desires are held in a perpetual equipoise, and the mind fluctuates between different purposes without determination. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Regent's Park, and its circumjacent buildings, promise, in few years, to afford something like an equipoise to the boasted Palace-group of Paris. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 I am in hopes a cup of tea and a night's rest will restore my equipoise of mind and body. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers In friendship love and respect unite in exact equipoise. History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time In the conduct of life it insures tact, and in Art a certain gentlemanlike equipoise, incapable of what is deepest and highest, but secure also from the vulgar, the grotesque, and the extravagant. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 Kate's nature was limited; part of her graceful equipoise was narrowness. Malbone: an Oldport Romance For a moment her face was panic-stricken, and she stood staring, then she realized that Russell would not arrive for another hour, at the earliest, and recovering her equipoise, went to the door. Alice Adams The balance was swayed from its equipoise by a hair. Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale In the balance of triumphs and failures, however, is to be sought the relative measure of genius — whose equipoise should be the first matter of ascertainment in comparative criticism. Life of Robert Browning The whole of my stones I sold to De Beers, for if I had placed them on the open market I should have upset the delicate equipoise of diamond values. Prester John When people emasculate their minds, they redouble their corporeal devotion at the shrine of Priapus, for nature preserves the equipoise. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Now, the first of these laws is the equipoise of functions; that is, the equality of associates. What is Property? The unmoved equipoise of the big man visibly reassured him. The Market-Place In every nerve and vein she was conscious of that equipoise of bliss which the fearful human heart scarce dares acknowledge. The Reef He had not yet recovered his mental equipoise and, in spite of his long, sound sleep, he was still badly jaded physically. Vane of the Timberlands My brethren of the loaded capsule and sociable stethoscope are evidently off their equipoise. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 It loved to be suspended in a state of semi-doubt, swung to and fro in agreeable equipoise; and the "Essay on Man" was precisely such a swing. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 We demand that virtue be winsome and that inclination be dignified, and where winsomeness and dignity are present in harmonious equipoise in the same person, there the expression of humanity is complete. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Punishment, deserved suffering, is no equipoise to sin. Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. The head, covered with the short, curling, yellow hair of his Saxon lineage, was a little advanced above the left shoulder, and seemed placed in a manner to preserve the equipoise of the whole frame. The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish But a decent man, in the full possession and equipoise of his faculties, can only regard them with sorrow unspeakable, and pity too deep for tears. The Secrets of the Great City They would then have a regulator, and be more in equipoise, yet must retain the same nervous susceptibility while their physical structure is such as it is. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. His ethical ideal was an ideal of harmony, of equipoise. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller This incident would indicate that Phillips Brooks had already, as a child, attained a mental equipoise which the average individual hardly achieves in a lifetime. Why Worry? The latter two so balanced each other, that he could decide for the first by equipoise; nay—the thought growing—that honor had more weight than death. Literary Remains, Volume 2 For there, too, is a reason that we are so glad to hide in the equipoise as an eternal fact that we are surfeited with constancy. Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis Brethren, unless we keep hold of both of these in due equipoise and inseparably intertwining, we damage the one which we retain almost as much as the one which we dismiss. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII The ever increasing pressure of social emotions made it seem a selfish and unmanly thing to be so concerned about one's own spiritual equipoise. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller It is with the ethical side of the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius that we are concerned, and with that portion only which bears on the question of mental equipoise. Why Worry? Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction. Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms A Platonic equipoise, Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence--the only real philosophic problem, therefore one of which these two philosophers alone are aware. Lysistrata Who knows? perhaps this is the sorrow of which you spoke, the misfortune which should bring your whole being into equipoise! O. T. a Danish Romance At present, he declares, the mass of men still oscillate between savagery and barbarism, but the man comme il faut must establish and preserve a perfect equipoise between his sensuous and his rational nature. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller To discard these wrappings, to claim kinship with some elemental and robust archetype, lover of earth and sun—— How fair they are, these moments of golden equipoise! Old Calabria The eye is fixed on the forefinger of the right hand, and the other end is hitched round the dart where it is nearly on an equipoise. Tropic Days Glover undoubtedly had his bad quarter-of-an-hour that night, but the next morning he regained his usual equipoise, and cast off his chagrin with a characteristic gibe, at his own expense. My Friends at Brook Farm Now the effect, in our case, is made up of the three elements Goodness, Passion and Darkness; hence the cause is the Pradhâna which consists in an equipoise of those three elements. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 Emerson, who had little sympathy with him otherwise, always admired the perfect equipoise of his nature. Cambridge Sketches In the group of the Laocoön the efforts of the body in enduring, and of the mind in resisting, are balanced in admirable equipoise. Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature Even on the mornings when he felt ill, if he set to work he recovered his equipoise. Doctor Pascal The members of one of these aristocracies usually get on very well with those of another, and there is no call for envy between them, because their several privileges effect an equipoise. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims For your Pradhâna consists in the equipoise of the three gunas; there are thus several causes, and you have no more an ultimate cause than others. The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 Whereupon the visitor smiled; he had a charming smile in these moments of calm equipoise, it gave one an impression of potential possibilities. A Man and His Money A Second Assembly composed of the most illustrious men of the country, a power of equipoise the guardian of the fundamental compact, and of the public liberties. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness This equipoise of power has by some lords been imagined an airy scheme, a pleasing speculation which, however it may amuse the imagination, can never be reduced to practice. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11. Parlimentary Debates II. By alliances, sir, the equipoise of power is maintained, and those alarms and apprehensions avoided, which must arise from daily vicissitudes of empire, and the fluctuations of perpetual contest. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 10 Parlimentary Debates I To restore the equipoise must be the object of all treatment. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics And it has all, doubtless, been for the best; for who knows but your individual exertions were needed to turn the scale which has been so long trembling at equipoise? The Rangers; or, The Tory's Daughter A tale illustrative of the revolutionary history of Vermont Finely strung, yet strong as steel in her temperament, all thoughts, feelings and events seemed to sweep over her without affecting or disturbing her mind's calm equipoise. Temporal Power This they were immediately interested in preventing; and as we knew the necessity of preserving the equipoise of power, we likewise were remotely engaged to promote any measures by which it might be secured. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 11. Parlimentary Debates II. If the balance be not intrinsically perfect, the equipoise can only be maintained by an agitation of both scales. The Bride of Messina, and On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy When the brain is wearied by the passions, appetite and digestion are almost gone….There is nowhere perfect health, save when the passions are well regulated, harmonized, and equipoised. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics An equipoise between the two could never have been reached. The United States of America, Part 1 My dear tutor took the precaution to put one bottle in one of his pockets, and as an equipoise another bottle in the other pocket. The Queen Pedauque I love that equipoise in the faces of the Greek women in the old statues and sculptures. More Pages from a Journal The priest sat for several minutes recovering breath and equipoise. Guns of the Gods Its mental discipline, however, is by far more fruitful, and keeps one's mind in equipoise, making one neither passionate nor dispassionate, neither sentimental nor unintelligent, neither nervous nor senseless. The Religion of the Samurai A Study of Zen Philosophy and Discipline in China and Japan No; they lie there and melt, and are renewed, kept in equipoise by the contending forces of heat and cold. Ragnarok : the Age of Fire and Gravel The study is full of tremendous pathos; it compasses the sublime, and in its most torrential moments the composer never quite loses his mental equipoise. Chopin : the Man and His Music What is more beautiful in the earthly life of Jesus, than this manly harmony, equipoise, and rest? Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing The butler sat down on one end of the form, unfortunately before his equipoise, the second footman, had taken his place at the other end. At Large "An easy evasion," retorted the excited bride, who had lost her mental equipoise. After the Storm He is prostrated by some strong mental emotion—that seems clear; and time must be given for the mind to regain its equipoise. The Allen House His coffee failed to soothe the unquiet nerves, his stomach turned from the food on which he had depended for a restoration of the equipoise which the night's excesses had destroyed. Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend In a justly ordered universe, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute. As a Man Thinketh Apparently a fine play of muscle, a subtle shifting of the power along the outstretched wings, a perpetual loss and a perpetual recovery of the equipoise, sustains them and bears them along. Winter Sunshine Her luminous deep eyes held his at bay, and despite his habitual, haughty equipoise, her crisp tone of measureless aversion stung him. At the Mercy of Tiberius Others are neutralised, not by suppression of gifts, but by just equipoise among them. Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays Here was nothing of that admired disorder, that medley of incongruous things which marked the room she had just left; but perfect order, precision, and balance of arrangement, the most peaceful equipoise. The Judgment House He is the point of support on which hangs the balance of the world, and the slightest irregularity on his part may overthrow the delicate equipoise. The Golden Bough Meanwhile Ferguson was engaged in calculating the relative weight of the articles still left in the car, and in establishing the equipoise of the second balloon. Five Weeks in a Balloon They belong to divine Principle, and support the equipoise of that thought-force, which launched the earth in its orbit and said to the 124:24 proud wave, "Thus far and no farther." Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures But clashing interests soon losing their equipoise, a monarchy and hierarchy break out of the confusion of ambitious struggles, and the foundation of both is secured by feudal tenures. Vindication of the Rights of Woman The minister had lost his equipoise in the face of the Englishman's great riches, of which hitherto he had held some doubts. The Puppet Crown A struggle between himself and the phantoms of the past had become now a necessary stimulus for its own sake,—for the sake of his mental and physical equipoise. A First Family of Tasajara In truth that name is associated with calamities so cruel that the recollection of them may not unnaturally disturb the equipoise even of a fair and sedate mind. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 In the Lords there was an almost exact equipoise; and very slight circumstances sufficed to turn the scale. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Having recovered his equipoise and something more, he entirely forgot that moment of humble admiration he had felt for Dora Yocum on the day of his flattest prostration. Ramsey Milholland Permanent peace on the preposterous condition of maintaining on equipoise between active, aggressive and hostile forces was, of course, impossible. but it was confidently expected. Life of Stephen A. Douglas Her person had the equipoise and symmetry of her mind. Oldport Days However tremulously you might vibrate, this quality, I supposed, would always bring you back to the equipoise. The Marble Faun - Volume 2 The Romance of Monte Beni Our Constitution stands on a nice equipoise, with steep precipices and deep waters upon all sides of it. Thoughts on the Present Discontents, and Speeches, etc. The mind became soured and morose, and lost much of its equipoise. Mary Barton But Orlando Brotherson had no difficulty in understanding him, and for the second time in this extraordinary interview, he gave evidences of agitation and of a mind shaken from its equipoise. Initials Only For that which, being in equipoise, is in the centre of that which is equably diffused, will not incline any way in any degree, but will always remain in the same state and not deviate. Phaedo Was there any immediate or even distant, effect on life caused by evil which was not instantly swung into equipoise by goodness? The Crock of Gold Both are intelligent natures endued with the power of self-motion, and the same equipoise is maintained in both. Timaeus How many trampled and deciduous joys Enrich thy soul for joys deciduous still, Before the distance shall fulfil Cyclic unrest with solemn equipoise! New Poems Our little lives are kept in equipoise By opposite attractions and desires; The struggle of the instinct that enjoys, And the more noble instinct that aspires. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow He is attempting to meet certain situations of a disturbing nature and to obtain equilibrium and equipoise by compensating for his feelings of inefficiency and unrest by the tics. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 We need wait for no future world to balance the luck of men; even here there is an equipoise. Rupert of Hentzau But thy tranquil waters teach Wisdom deep as human speech, Moving without haste or noise In unbroken equipoise. The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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