What reason is there for assuming primordial homogeneity, since every backward step would show us, together with the unravelling of what is now in process of weaving, a counter-balancing weaving of what is now in process of disintegration?

'Why, Sir, the pleasure of living in London, the intellectual superiority that is enjoyed there, may counter-balance the other.

It is of essential consequence to keep in view, that there was in this excellent man's conduct no false principle of commutation, no deliberate indulgence in sin, in consideration of a counter-balance of duty.

But this sentiment, like gravitation, diminishes in the ratio of the square of the distance, and at any considerable remove can no longer be reckoned upon as a counter-balance to the lawlessness of egotism.

Advanced ideas are Nature's weights, intended to counter-balance the heavy stubborn past; without them the boat will upset....

Liberty consists in that very thing, that a free man is in himself a conscious law of the universe, a counter-balance to the crushing machine, the automaton of Spitteler, the bronze Ananké.

There are many evils 'tis true, but there is also so much good to counter-balance the evil, that we should raise our hearts with thankfulness, and open our lips with praises to sing the goodness of our God.

The high crown and wide, gracefully rolling brim counter-balance the weight and prominence of the jaw.

If there were no other objection, there would be this, that the disturbance and waste of force involved in shaking off in their riper years the erroneous opinions which had been instilled into them in childhood, would more than counter-balance any advantages, whatever their precise nature may be, to be derived from having shared in their own proper persons the ungrounded notions of others.]

But as the painter finds himself obliged to strengthen the tone of color of the living subject, in order to counter-balance the material influencesso thelyrical effusions of the Chorus impose upon the poet the necessity of a proportionate elevation of his general diction.

I knew my conduct on the trail must have seemed to her ungentlemanly because I had never dared to explain that my action there had been a pure bluff, and that I wouldn't have really searched her forwell, for anything; but though she might think badly of me for that, yet I had done my best to counter-balance it, and was running big risks, both present and eventual, for Madge's sake.

To counter-balance them to some extent, the Divorcée determined to secure the presence and the countenance of a clergyman.