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* Aequitas, aequilibrium, aequalitas, are all of the same family.
The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires and the Law of Nature 1788
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Things are not left to an aequilibrium, to hover under an indifference whether they shall come to pass or not come to pass; but the whole train of events is laid beforehand, and all proceed by the rule and limit of an antecedent decree: for otherwise, who could manage the affairs of the world, and govern the dependance of one event upon another, if that event happened at random, and was not cast into a certain method and relation to some foregoing purpose to direct it?
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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_aequilibrium_ of Day and Night, for some time, holds the Air in a gloomy suspence between an unwillingness to leave the light, and a natural impulse into the Dominion of darkness, about this time our Hero's, shall
Incognita; or, Love and Duty Reconcil'd William Congreve 1699
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