For his infirmities, his friends found an ample counterpoise in the generous sincerity of his nature.

But their intellectualism was checked by the aesthetic and eudaemonistic element, and preserved from the one-sidedness which it manifests in the modern period, because of the lack of an effective counterpoise.

This cord passes back from d to a small pulley at the upper part of the board, and at the lower end of it a tassel, loaded so as to be an exact counterpoise to the card, is attached.

Peace, as opposed to war, is a tremendous counterpoising of forces, and it simply means an organised resistance.

These rational and moral elements are in variable counterpoise with the ruder desires,sometimes commanding them with imperial ease, sometimes overcoming them by struggle, sometimes striving with them feebly and vainly, or even ceasing to strive.

The plate chain which carries the large western counterpoise broke.