| 单词 | sublunary |
| 例句 | One aspect of the Scientific Revolution consists in the extension of mathematical theories to include sublunary phenomena. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There are now three sublunary spheres, not four. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z But long before this the Aristotelian demarcation between superlunary and sublunary had been shattered by Brahe. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the sublunary sphere it might seem easy to formulate some general laws: all living creatures die; children take after their parents. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For Plato, the sublunary world was a distorted projection of the world of essences. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Within the sublunary zone there are four distinct spheres: earth, water, air and fire; outside them are the planets, including the sun and the moon. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The mathematization of the sublunary world begins not with Galileo but with Alberti, not in the seventeenth century but in the fifteenth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the sublunary zone the four elements—earth, water, air and fire—which form the basis of all our daily experience of matter are to be found. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The sublunary world, the world this side of the moon, is the world of generation and corruption—the rest of the universe has existed unchanging from all eternity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In Aristotelian physics different laws apply in the sublunary and supralunary spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to Aristotle, the sublunary elements were naturally at rest, while the supralunary spheres rotated in endless circles. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In the Middle Ages the heavens had been compared to clockwork; now the same principle of regularity was, it was claimed, to be discovered in the sublunary world. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z According to Aristotle, the universe is divided between a supralunary zone, where nothing changes and movement is always in circles, and a sublunary zone. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Astronomy, though, was a peculiar discipline because it accepted unquestioningly the Aristotelian distinction between the sublunary and supralunary worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Aristotelians therefore recognize that, in the sublunary sphere, there are no regularities which do not have exceptions; in the supralunary sphere, all is regularity without exception; there are no regularities which apply in both spheres. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Comets must therefore be sublunary, not supralunary: below the moon, not above it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As in fairyland, so in the sublunary domain. Films like Tooth Fairy can warp young minds 2010-05-31T09:55:00Z And worse, they assume their buildings will inject some germ of their utopian vision into the boring, sublunary setting of their work, and thus transform everything around it. Architect Zaha Hadid always seemed unstoppable, but she left a mixed legacy 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z “Among other things, many ignored the reality that millions of African Americans were quite pleased with the decidedly sublunary consolations of equal protection under the law.” Style Invitational Week 1451: Could have said it worse ourselves 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z He is scrupulously genial and polite, and happy to talk about theories of spacetime, but extremely reluctant to say anything on the record about the book’s more sublunary themes and ideas. Charlie Kaufman: 'Making people laugh makes me feel validated as a human' 2020-07-11T04:00:00Z But change is the only constant in our sublunary world, as writers down the centuries have noted; Powell, too, knew this well. A Veritable No Man’s Land, Off the Coast of Scotland 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Anything below the moon was “sublunary,” separate from the rest of the solar system’s state of grace. When Science Meets Fiction 2013-01-28T03:15:00.220Z This, amongst all sublunary blessings, is undoubtedly the one of paramount importance, and, seeing how things now stand with us, it is imperative that it should be the question to receive earliest attention. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The light that shines into a holy heart is constant, like that of the sun, which keeps due times, and varies not his course for any of these sublunary occasions.” The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z Thomson's absorption in the work of the moment was often very great, and on these occasions he much disliked to be brought down to sublunary things by any slight mischance or inconvenience. Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work 2012-04-06T02:00:32.097Z Spirit of contradiction! when wilt thou cease to rule over sublunary affairs, as the moon governs the tides? Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z It acts physically, morally, mentally, psychologically, physiologically, and geologically, and it is intended to make our sublunary sphere a blissful paradise, to which Heaven itself shall be but a side-show. Doesticks, What He Says 2012-03-14T02:00:27.940Z If my doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence of all things sublunary is a reality, then I shall be sitting with these venomous spiders, shall be in this identical spot a trillion of years hence. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z We were continually whipt, and received twenty lashes a day, when the concatenation of sublunary events brought you on board our galley to ransom us from slavery.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z This curious theory may be traced to the Magi and Chaldæans, who pretended that every sublunary body was under a planetary influence. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z Yet what brave sublunary things does not this pageant present, like a ball or fête of the universe! Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z As to the frail girl, she appeared to be beyond sublunary cares. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The vicissitudes which you, my Julia, have experienced in your short life, must teach you how little dependence is to be placed in sublunary enjoyments. The Sylph, Volume I and II 2012-01-09T03:00:19.583Z It has been subject, as all sublunary Things are, to great Revolutions and Misfortunes. The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. 2012-01-07T03:00:17.127Z That is just what man is placed upon this sublunary sphere for, and he must begin by improving himself. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z What is it for a man to set his thoughts on sublunary things but, as it were, a tenuity of mind? The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. 2011-12-20T03:00:28.907Z "Necessity knows no law," and the higher claims of genius were forced to submit to very sublunary considerations. Beethoven: A Memoir (2nd Ed.) 2011-11-14T03:00:21.027Z All of earth must be left behind if Paradise is ever wholly gained, yet I have still my sublunary thoughts. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z I have changed my mind, or rather existing circumstances have led to my altering my opinions in a case of sublunary honor. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z For instance, your hen when closely confined seems to lose her ambition, and spends a large part of her time on the perches, apparently indifferent to all sublunary things. Natural and Artificial Duck Culture 2012-01-04T03:00:33.923Z "I shall never be mean enough to tell that in sublunary times one of the first American Knickerbockers knew me intimately only as my valet." The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z "Association" is the magic word From many a social "priest and prophet" heard; "Attractive Labor" is the angel given, To render earth a sublunary Heaven! The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z All hope of happiness, in this mutable and sublunary scene, was fled. Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:21.807Z In such a state of mind, the imagination swells with great, but confused conceptions, to which no sublunary beauties or enjoyments can correspond. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z His conception of the universe rested upon the plain contrast, which strikes the unsophisticated observer, between the unembarrassed and regular movements of the heavenly bodies and the disordered agitations of sublunary things. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Looking at ourselves in the mirror of honest criticism, we behold features as unchangeable as sublunary vicissitudes will allow. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z I have of late been moulting: not for fresh feathers and wings: they are gone, and in their stead I hope to have a pair of patient sublunary legs. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z From the innumerable multitude of shining orbs over his head, he selected a star in which his spirit was to dwell after its departure from these sublunary scenes. The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z “But here am I talking about these sublunary affairs, when the eclipse will be beginning,” cried Vibert. The Haunted Room A Tale 2011-03-10T03:00:46.157Z The traditional distinction between the celestial and sublunary spheres had vanished. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z Not that Minnie had attained to any saint-like heights of self-abnegation; not that she did not still "desire and admire" many sublunary things. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z Allah knows there be many greater blockheads in this sublunary world than his servant the Hajji. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z He speaks of his experience somewhat as we may imagine the winged Pegasus, if endowed with speech, would have done of his memorable brief taste of sublunary life. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z You deemed me a tyrant, because I would not forthwith adopt your sublunary ideas about the welfare of the people, and rejected this hand, that would have guided you. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z He began gradually to delight in sublunary pleasures. Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale 2010-12-29T03:00:31.850Z In the spirit of a high mythology, Juno may be considered as representing the sublunary atmosphere; and, as opposed to Jupiter, the active origin and organizer of all, she is of a passive nature. Heathen Mythology All sublunary things are uncertain, nor ought any thing to be trusted to treacherous futurity. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History That prime mover is God, who is not the creator, but the mover directly of the heavens, and indirectly through the planets of sublunary substances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" He met the grim messenger of death with resignation and calmness—bid a cheerful farewell to friends, the toils of earth and all sublunary things. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Michael pondered the freshmen's chatter and apprehended dimly how this magical sublunary city would convert all that effusion of na�ve intolerance to her own renown. Sinister Street, vol. 2 A chearful temper irradiates the progress of life, and dispels the evils of sublunary nature. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact No creature in this sublunary world is capable of so doing beside man, and yet we are deficient herein. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History It is true that, in a certain sense, everything else sublunary is for man. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy But alas! how uncertain are all sublunary things. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution At thought of thee, each sublunary wish Lets go its eager grasp, and drops the world; 223 And catches at each reed of hope in heaven. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The close of the seventeenth century for ever shut the eyes of John Dryden upon the clouded and fluctuating daylight of our sublunary world. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 But, come, dear Ned, I believe it is time for us to leave the moon, and attend to our sublunary concerns. The Travellers A Tale. Designed for Young People. I told him, without ceremony, the story of the lady who came back so suddenly from the realms of celestial ecstasies to this sublunary world at the idea of being slightly burned. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. On the 19th of June 1811, surrounded by his family and friends, he bade a last farewell to sublunary things and died peaceful and happy. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Nor are our powers to perish immature; But, after feeble effort here, beneath A brighter sun, and in a nobler soil, Transplanted from this sublunary bed, Shall flourish fair, and put forth all their bloom. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes Our hero and heroine were called to sublunary realities by the voice of Miss Silence, who came into the passage to see what upon earth they were doing. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings In her a mighty genius shall Arise, of high ethereal mould, great in Renown, sublime, superior far to praise Of sublunary man—or Fame herself. Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. All this time our parlor furniture, though of that granitic formation I have indicated, began to show marks of that decay to which things sublunary are liable. Household Papers and Stories Whitman’s moth is mightily at his ease about all the planets in heaven, and cannot think too highly of our sublunary tapers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Man’s heart th’ Almighty to the future sets, By secret and inviolable springs; 120 And makes his hope his sublunary joy. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes You know one can’t sometimes sit down to the sublunary occupation of even reading Greek, unless one feels free to it. The Brownings Their Life and Art Coming down to sublunary matters, Aspar said the cave was well provisioned; they had bread, oil, figs, dried grapes, and wine. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century That class thrive best, it appears to me—if the accumulation of dollars and dimes be Webster, Walker, or Scriptural interpretation of that sense—in this sublunary world. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes The anchoret looks on this sublunary sphere as one of sighing, the attorney as one of suing—there being all that difference betwixt law and gospel. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 As the chased hart, amid the desert waste, Pants for the living stream; for Him who made her, So pants the thirsty soul, amid the blank Of sublunary joys. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes The gods and goddesses in the Iliad are men and women, endowed with human passions, affections, and desires, and distinguished only from sublunary beings by superior power and the gift of immortality. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 Or do they exist unaltered till they become unfit, when they just vanish from this sublunary scene? War Letters of a Public-School Boy Wisdom they considered as superior to virtue, as being connected with the contemplation of the upper and purer regions, while virtue was conversant only with the sublunary part of the world. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero She chews the cud of sweetest revery Above your worldly prattle, brooklet merry, Oblivious of all things sublunary. The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 How can you abstract your thoughts so suddenly from all sublunary affairs! Say and Seal, Volume II Our attention is thus divided between the moon and sublunary affairs. Say and Seal, Volume I No doubt, he always meant to do his duty, but the ecstasy of invention and the thirst for discovery carried him out of himself and made him often oblivious of sublunary things. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The sun, stars, and nebulæ form so many celestial laboratories, where the nature and mutual relations of the chemical "elements" may be tried by more stringent tests than sublunary conditions afford. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Here did they realize all the happiness which the sublunary hand of time apportions to mortals. Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father The Arabic thinkers assumed ten such independent Intelligences, one animating each of the nine permanent spheres, and the tenth, called the "Active Intellect," influencing the sublunary world of matter. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The inanity of sublunary things has afforded a theme to philosophers, moralists, and divines, from the earliest records of antiquity; "Vanity of vanities!" says the preacher, "all is vanity!" Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life And, finally, the host of inferior deities interposed between the material sensible world and God seemed to Plato as needful in order to explain the apparent defects and disorders of sublunary affairs. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles If there is a party envious of the genius of another party in this sublunary world that party is our Mr. Jones. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm It is said that the Duchess also, towards the close of her earthly pilgrimage, felt the influence of divine grace, and turned heavenwards her gaze, wearied with the changefulness of all sublunary things. Political Women, Vol. 2 The moon is the domestic deity, whom the household must fear: the Fortuna who presides over the daily doings of sublunary mortals. Moon Lore His prayers and vigils, which often led to such high wrought and intense experiences, were, not infrequently, brought down to the level of ordinary sublunary affairs. Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply The ghost of Wallenstein might have returned to its rest with entire complacency, and with the firm resolution to trouble this sublunary world no more, had it witnessed the flight of the Austrians through Gitschin. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 They live in cheap and dirty streets that smell bad; their houses are in the same style, infected with a strong odor of cabbage, onions, washing-day, old dinners, and other merely sublunary smells. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages It is they of the soul-world who convey the thought, it is we of the sublunary world who translate that thought into our own language. Second Sight A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance And now we record a few visits which men of this sublunary sphere are said to have paid to the moon. Moon Lore Any attempt at forcing a journey is a folly; and a folly of which the correction will come with the first experiment, if it leave to the person any future opportunity of sublunary conduct. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Although Galileo had now the happiness of rejoining his family under their paternal roof, yet, like all sublunary blessings, it was but of short duration. The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler What striking lessons have we had of the precarious tenure of all sublunary possessions! A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. But Mr. Harrison was independent of these mere ethereal visions, and surrounded himself only with a halo of sublunary beatitude. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature I fear the Willesden outing has unsettled my convictions, and shaken my faith in most sublunary things. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis She was a dear old ship as ever floated, but like all other things sublunary, animate, or inanimate, was not without her faults. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Somebody had dubbed him "Rosebud," in the first moon of his sublunary existence, and the abbreviation was inevitable. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood His influence in the first place acts immediately on the Active Intelligences and angels, who in their turn act on souls which in their turn act on our sublunary world. Mystics and Saints of Islam "That will all be provided; it is well not to be anxious concerning these sublunary things." Days Off And Other Digressions It makes all new, and green, and flourishing; it puts a youth upon the world, and so is the very spring and fountain of life to all sublunary things. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning But alas! she had occasion too soon to deplore the capricious uncertainty of all sublunary enjoyments. Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman "Ten cents," replied Leopold, looking up at the sky in turn, as though nothing sublunary concerned him, either. The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Summer, too, must pass away from Sherwood as it does from every sublunary scene. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 But you know that you are an angel visiting these sublunary spheres, and therefore your first quality should be that of mercy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 The heart missing nothing, cannot go above sublunary things; but let it not have its will here, and the need of heaven will be the greater. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Prudence with them is a matter of thrill like the rest of sublunary contrivances. Chance A Tale in Two Parts There is nothing more surprising in regard to sublunary matters than the way in which unexpected events arise out of what may be called unintentional causes. Fighting the Flames He tied his horse to a sublunary rack—not a thing of fairy land and moonshine as he thought—and slowly took his way, across the flower-enamelled lawn, towards the old smiling mansion. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 The stranger walked briskly, and hummed an air as he went, turning his face up to the stars and the wind-swept sky, as if entirely oblivious of all sublunary things. The Nebuly Coat There is nothing more generally known than this, that God at the beginning made the heaven and the earth, and all the host of them, the upper or the celestial, the lower or sublunary world. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Little Fyne held very solemn views as to the destiny of women on this earth, the nature of our sublunary love, the obligations of this transient life and so on. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Of course, it was nonsense to care about such trifles, she must be strong-minded and live above such sublunary things. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient Whatever or wherever the supralunary may be, our world is more interested in the sublunary tribes. The Superstitions of Witchcraft Many of these erring philosophers, therefore, attentive to the accumulation of riches, retire from this sublunary world with an immense immolated treasure, wherewith to begin, as they imagine, their career in the world to come! An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Some would have his influence general, like the sun's upon sublunary things, but how shallow are all men's thoughts in regard of that which is? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning His "natural port," as Johnson well said, "is gigantic loftiness," and his end to "raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures." Milton He is dead", and instantly thought, "How transient are all sublunary things! A Simple Story It appeared to Paul that the gale was abating, but he very soon became unconscious of all sublunary affairs. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy At last, like all sublunary things, the games came to an end, and the prince hastened to his sister’s room. The Hot Swamp Lord, what was man that thou didst so magnify him, and make him a little lower than the angels,—that thou didst put all things sublunary under his feet, and exalt him above them! The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning If ever a pig in this sublunary sphere regretted a foolish act, that Pitcairn pig must have been steeped in repentance to the latest day of its life. The Lonely Island The Refuge of the Mutineers I have often noticed, in the course of my observations on sublunary affairs, that events seldom come singly. The Gorilla Hunters Fortunately, midshipmen, as O’Grady boasted, have a powerful knack of sleeping; and so they passed most of the time, in the intervals of their meals, lost in oblivion of all sublunary matters. Paul Gerrard The Cabin Boy Events occurred that day which proved to him that the sublunary paradise was, at least, woefully uncertain in its nature. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole It makes all new, and green and flourishing, it puts a youth upon the world, and so is the very spring and fountain of life to all sublunary things. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Strange interlacing of error with error traversed by truth in this sublunary sphere! Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure The uncertainty of all sublunary things is a truism so trite that I do not mean to insult the reader’s understanding by attempting to prove it. The Big Otter It is well-known, and generally acknowledged, that all sublunary things, pleasant as well as unpleasant, must come to an end. The Red Eric Some, rising above sublunary matters, shut their eyes to all around and fix their thoughts on that world with which they may be said to be more immediately connected, namely, the next. In the Track of the Troops There is risk, no doubt, but there is that in everything sublunary. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade Just look at your gentlemanly cynic; good-natured very likely, for he’s mightily pleased with himself and excessively wise in regard to all things sublunary. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure The missionary smiled, in spite of himself, as he explained that the earnestness he referred to was connected rather with the soul and the spiritual world than with this sublunary sphere. The Prairie Chief But a few hours must inevitably waft me to an infinite distance from all sublunary enjoyments, and fix me in a state of changeless retribution. The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees At this period all men, as well as writers, looked up to the peers as if they were beings on whose smiles or frowns all sublunary good and evil depended. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 Everything gave promise of a continuance of fine weather, and so, like two pachas, we sat on the deck, calmly contemplating with philosophic indifference all sublunary affairs. Hurricane Hurry A loud snore assured him that the Count was fast asleep, forgetful of his castle, forgetful of the Vrouw Klack, forgetful where he was, and of all other sublunary matters. Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin As sublunary troubles always do, the journey came to an end, and the coach deposited us at the door of Mr Butterfield, Aunt Deb’s cousin. Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures Mr. Morley is hardly less severe in speaking of the “Thoughts” in Theophrastus Such: “the most insufferable of all deadly-lively prosing in our sublunary world.” Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources There dwells within his breast a deeper sentiment than that which is inspired by the worldly and sublunary distinctions of sect. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Carlyle is, I believe, generally accurate in these as in sublunary matters, but I had just found him writing of Orion looking down on Paris on August 9, when Orion is hardly up before Sunrise. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II He then dispatched his own coat to a quarter where something or other might be done to fit it for this sublunary world. The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, Vol. 2 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Burton, in his Anat. of Mel., quotes from a writer who thus enumerates the kinds of sublunary spirits—“fiery, aerial, terrestrial, watery, and subterranean, besides fairies, satyrs, nymphs, etc.” Milton's Comus He disturbed the quiet of her bereaved life by showers of anonymous notes, in which he threatened to quit this sublunary scene if she despised him. Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag And with Grandma, indeed, the turmoils of this sublunary sphere implied only a vast ultimate settling down. Cape Cod Folks It is a fairly flat waltz movement that in "A Pagan Poem" is chosen to represent the sublunary aspect of Virgil's genius. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers And Osiris was invoked as the God that resides in the Sun and is enveloped by his rays, the invisible and eternal force that modifies the sublunary world by means of the Sun. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The boy must see to the shop to-day, no sublunary care of awl or leather, customers and groschen, must check the rushing flood of thought. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology Posterity can hardly trace the situation of some; the sorrowful traveller wanders over the awful ruins of others; and, as he beholds, he learns wisdom, and feels the transience of every sublunary possession. Goldsmith English Men of Letters Series But my uncle, who never thought even of such sublunary matters, knew nothing of this. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth No sublunary chance his vestments fear; Valu'd, like leopards, as their spots appear. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 From that soul, through them, come all the variations and changes of sublunary nature, of which the heavens and celestial bodies are but the secondary causes. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry However, Providence, to keep up the proper proportion of evil with the good, which it seems is necessary in this sublunary state, thought proper to check my exultation by a very serious misfortune. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham And for that reason, the book is the simplest and most easily legible of his works, with the least of his mannerism and the largest concessions to the written language of sublunary mortals. Studies in Early Victorian Literature This marked a preconcerted moment: for the remote celestial phenomenon had been pressed into sublunary service as a lover's signal. The Return of the Native Yet this proof passed as irresistible amongst Aristotelians, and induced in them the belief that there was a certain sublunary intelligence and that our active intellect was produced by participation in it. Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil The former is all above the moon, and especially the sun: the latter is the sublunary world. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The mode of thought which M. Comte terms Metaphysical, accounts for phaenomena by ascribing them, not to volitions either sublunary or celestial, but to realized abstractions. Auguste Comte and Positivism And it was evident to him, that the Essences of those sensible Bodies, which are in this sublunary World, had some of them more Qualities superadded to their Corporeity, and others, fewer. The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan The Atlantosaurus of the Western American Jurassic beds, a great erect lizard, is the very largest creature ever known to have inhabited this sublunary sphere. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Turning the attention from sublunary views, however enchanting, think for a moment with me of the house wherewith "they shall be abundantly satisfied,"—even the "house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Pulpit and Press Accordingly, the vital fire that blazes in the Sun and produces the heat that vivifies everything, was regarded as the principle of organization and life of all sublunary beings. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry If you knew what a sublunary thing—oh, far below any visible moon!—postage is to us exiles! The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II It confirmed the truth of that maxim which tells us, that the human mind must have something left to supply for itself on the sight of all sublunary objects. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I One evening, the army being on its march towards Rome, Constantine was intent on various considerations upon the fate of sublunary things, and the dangers of his approaching expedition. Pinnock's improved edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome to which is prefixed an introduction to the study of Roman history, and a great variety of valuable information added throughout the work, on the manners, institutions, and antiquities of the Romans; with numerous biographical and historical notes; and questions for examination at the end of each section. By Wm. C. Taylor. Some interest attaches, of course, to the attitude of Italy; but, beyond that, all things sublunary seem to have faded into a remote distance of unreality—sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 All sublunary bodies received from them their nourishment and increase, during the annual revolution which they controlled, and the different seasons into which it was divided. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The scheme of Providence is carrying oil sublunary events, by means inscrutable to us, A mighty maze, but not without a plan! Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The stars look down, from their high places, on sublunary things, with a sublime indifference; and he, their interpreter, was at the service of all comers, or of all who could pay. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Do not hope for perfect happiness; there is no such thing in this sublunary state. The History of Emily Montague See, Fellow-Citizens, the Vanity of all sublunary Things! and lament your own hard Fate in the Loss of the Illustrious Evanosmador. A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country All this time our parlor-furniture, though of that granitic formation I have indicated, began to show marks of that decay to which things sublunary are liable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 I study the heavens and take no heed of your sublunary divisions. Corporal Sam and Other Stories And do tell me, for I have been thinking, are you careful as to diet—and will such sublunary things as coffee and tea and cocoa affect your head—for or against! The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 Jill seldom troubled her head about such sublunary affairs as dress. Uncle Max But while the worthy man strove to lead the sufferer beyond this sublunary sphere, his heart bled for the poor children she was leaving. A Book for the Young But these cannot be wanting for any long time, in the ordinary course of sublunary affairs. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Lady Verner had seen the fallacy of sublunary hopes and projects. Verner's Pride The eldest gave up all the management of the sublunary concerns of the family, and devoted his mind entirely to religious duties. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official "Depend upon it, they have forgotten the time," I said to him: "when two girls are chattering their secrets to each other, they are not likely to remember anything so sublunary." Uncle Max According to Chinese ideas, the sun, moon, and planets influence sublunary events, especially the life and death of human beings, and changes in their colour menace approaching calamities. Myths and Legends of China The loftier a man's own view of mental conceptions and sublunary things, the more will he admire Carlyle as described by Froude. The Life of Froude And who that lives can find a strain Of worth like his the soul to free From bonds of sublunary pain? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 On that too brief, delightful morning, we talked of all things—supralunar, lunar, and sublunary. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) The "moon under her feet," may represent the "beggarly elements" of the Mosaic ritual, sublunary things, or the ordinances which derive all their light from the "Sun of righteousness." Notes on the Apocalypse Sometimes the soothsayers, who pretended to act on this information from sublunary spirits, soared to higher matters than the practice of physic, and interfered in the fate of nations. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft I shall on the contrary endeavour to divest myself of all wishes for the futile and sublunary enjoyments of it, and prepare my soul for its reception into the bosom of its Redeemer. The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences As soon as one realizes the exquisite humbug of sublunary existence he must weep for the pity of it. Septimus Applied to the industrial pursuits of this sublunary sphere, science engenders riches, luxury, pleasure, health, and a thousand similar scourges, which tend to draw us away from salvation. The Roman Question Ovid had warn'd her to beware Of strolling gods, whose usual trade is, Under pretence of taking air, To pick up sublunary ladies. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 If there is any sublunary thing equal in value to the true love of a faithful woman, it has not yet entered into the heart of man to conceive. Hints for Lovers To what a state of things are we coming, when at night all the sublunary world is nodding, and the Stars above are winking. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, November 14, 1891 The stolid indifference to all sublunary matters which had distinguished Nathan throughout the scene, vanished the moment he found himself alone. Nick of the Woods Farewell! night wanderings in all seasons for Christ, and all sublunary things. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony I am wrong in seeking to invest sublunary sounds with celestial sense. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II In illustration of this, was the fact, that in several instances the people of the land addressed the supreme god Oro, in the very same terms employed in the political adoration of their sublunary rulers. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Soon, however, the world begins to turn again upon its axis, and it seems the busiest epoch of the day, when an accident impedes the march of sublunary things. Twice Told Tales The haunch, cooked to their hands, was straightway removed to a convenient place, where all, drawing their knives, fell foul with an energy of appetite and satisfaction that left them oblivious of most sublunary affairs. Nick of the Woods It is a of sublunary wisdom—an umbrella over an oracle. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 For though, in one way or other, all Mardians bowed to the supremacy of Oro, they were not so unanimous concerning the inferior deities; those supposed to be intermediately concerned in sublunary things. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Mortality is the disgrace of all sublunary delights. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy Wordsworth quitted this sublunary scene, for a brighter and a better, on April 23, 1850. Rides on Railways When anything so engrossing as the flying of a young falcon was in the wind, it was natural that so sublunary a matter as breakfast should be forgotten. The Lord of Dynevor In childhood, supper is a thing to look forward to, and to last when it arrives; but not in childhood, any more than in old age, can sublunary joys endure for ever. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Taking compassion, therefore, on the sad condition of these sublunary wretches, we have endeavored, while we remained on their planet, to introduce among them the light of reason and the comforts of the moon. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete You know one can't sometimes sit down to the sublunary, occupation of reading Greek, unless one feels free to it. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) Going to the Sherman House, I caught the last elevator for my room on the top floor, and it was not long ere I was oblivious to all sublunary things. Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 In one sense the jocose answer of the pupil might have been made by the immense majority of sublunary beings. The Moon-Voyage It cannot be fear—the fear of death; for my soul is not so abject as to confine its desires to this sublunary scene. Marriage Remember the instability of sublunary things, and judge no man happy till he dies. Trial of Mary Blandy That night impressed itself on my memory for all time, so far as I am concerned with things sublunary. Yesterdays with Authors "Bernard was in the heavens," says Arnold of Bonnevaux; "but they compelled him to come down and listen to their sublunary business." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 10 — Lives and Letters This event will, I hope, make a suitable and abiding impression upon my mind, teach me the fading nature of all sublunary enjoyments, and the little dependence which is to be placed on earthly felicity. The Coquette The History of Eliza Wharton Every creature in this sublunary world, Most Holy Father, that gives birth to something, either immediately afterwards closes the womb or rests for a period. De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera The bosom wells with joy serene While viewing all the lovely scene, The spirit soars on airy wings Above all sublunary things. The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland But the book-collector must not be caught nursing mere sublunary hopes. In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays How short of bliss the sublunary reign, How long the clouded days of misery and pain! Poetic Sketches But although the present life is necessarily built upon the foundation of truth, yet we never thoroughly attain it in this sublunary sphere. The Symbolism of Freemasonry I hear the very Gordon that of old Was wont to preach, now once more preaching; I know well that all sublunary things Are still the vassals of vicissitude. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 03 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Though she may work at his side, the comrade of his sublunary occupations, he never, deep down, thinks of her as quite real. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays On the 9th of December, 1815, she closed her eyes to sublunary objects to open them in the paradise above. Woman: Man's Equal Though well I know the fading nature of all sublunary enjoyments, yet when I retire shortly it will be but to protract the fierce pleasure of this night by recollection. The Wrong Twin As to the best way of "terminating its sublunary existence," Mr. Dodgson consulted two surgeons, one of whom was Sir James Paget. The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Like the religious bigot, she was sufficiently disposed to avenge a hostility against her opinions with the weapons of sublunary warfare. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are They have not, and never had a place on this sublunary sphere, but belong in that ethereal world which the fancy creates and the imagination paints. American Hero-Myths A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent Patiently to earn a spare bare living, and quietly to die, untouched by workhouse hands—this was her highest sublunary hope. Our Mutual Friend In one sense, the pupil's witty answer might be given by a large majority of sublunary beings. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon I enlarged upon many other topics, which the natural desire of endless life, and sublunary happiness, could easily furnish me with. Gulliver's Travels But this is probably, like so many other things that occur to us in this sublunary stage, a delusion. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author His second conclusion is that "comets are of elemental and sublunary nature; for they are an exhalation hot and dry, fatty and well condensed, inflammable and kindled in the uppermost regions of the air." History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom He, as I knew, was not in a state to interest himself in any sublunary matters. The Shadow Line; a confession Whitman's moth is mightily at his ease about all the planets in heaven, and cannot think too highly of our sublunary tapers. Familiar Studies of Men and Books This marked a preconcerted moment—for the remote celestial phenomenon had been pressed into sublunary service as a lover's signal. The Return of the Native Hence comes the practice of castle-building, and of engaging the soul in endless reveries and imaginations of something mysterious and unlike to what we behold in the scenes of sublunary life. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Though familiar with the works of Tycho Brahe, he finds it "hard to believe" that all comets are ethereal, and adduces several historical examples of sublunary ones. History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Providence has a hand in this, as in all other sublunary dispensations. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 The celestial lion is intellectual, but the sublunary irrational; for the former is nearer the idea of a lion. Philothea A Grecian Romance With all the reckless simplicity of boyhood, I maintain that travelling by coach is by no means the least of our sublunary pleasures. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 In this sense the mutability, which so eminently characterises every thing sublunary, is immutability under another name. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author And, as for the little straw parlor, I fear It was wafted clean off this sublunary sphere! Songs and Other Verse This is admirably pathetical, and shows very well the vicissitudes of sublunary things. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 It is to be regretted that princes must be exempted from so many of the scenes in this sublunary life calculated to touch the heart, to chasten and elevate the spirit. Beaux and Belles of England Mrs. Mary Robinson, Written by Herself, With the lives of the Duchesses of Gordon and Devonshire For to the brutes Perception and the transient boons of sense Hath Fate imparted; but to man alone 50 Of sublunary beings was it given. Poetical Works of Akenside All reflecting persons, who have surveyed the state of the world in which we live, have been struck with the contrarieties of sublunary things; and many hypotheses have been invented to solve the enigma. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author Let us at last rejoice: the Figaro, without getting the credit of it, has overcome the elements and all sublunary cataclysms. Honore de Balzac, His Life and Writings Its end is to raise the thoughts above sublunary cares or pleasures. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 The greatest part of the observations contained in the foregoing pages were derived from a lady, who is now beyond the reach of being affected by any thing in this sublunary world. Tales and Novels — Volume 08 Never was sublunary happiness so pure and unmingled. Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian Soon, however, the world begins to turn again upon its axis, and it seems the busiest epoch of the day; when an accident impedes the march of sublunary things. The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") Happiness in this sublunary state can scarcely be felt, but by a comparison with misery. Imogen A Pastoral Romance Monitory Verses To a Young Lady, who indulged too gloomy ideas of our sublunary state. Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author What, indeed, could sublunary pomps and glories be to him in any case; but emphatically what, when his object was to redeem the people from darkness and destruction? An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance How necessary are such characters as these, to soften the rigour of the sublunary scene, and to stamp an impression of dignity on the degeneracy of the human character? Italian Letters, Vols. I and II The History of the Count de St. Julian It may give a holier turn to his thoughts--wean him from sublunary vanities--and purify his nature. A Love Story For, granting that two and two are six, the corollary reasoning must be that no premise is or may be capable of such conclusion as will render it sublunary to its agreed parallel. Ptomaine Street This would serve to impress the reader with the woful vicissitudes of sublunary things. Passages from the American Notebooks, Volume 2. I do not understand how Indian seekers after truth can hurry and strive about sublunary matters. The Reconciliation of Races and Religions At that hour, Oh, how vain was every sublunary happiness! Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Let this admonish you to reflect on the constant Revolution of all sublunary Affairs, and the greater is your Glory, the nearer you are to your Declension. Of Captain Mission In helping to disband his party, he had cashiered himself; and there remained to him now, for the residue of his days, but that frailest of all sublunary treasures, a Prince's friendship. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 Jeames's attention had been gradually drawn from the moon in the heavens to this sublunary scene; and he was puzzled and alarmed by the appearance of the man in shiny boots. The History of Pendennis My soul, quite enraptured, could stay here forever, And drink in thy beauties with constant delight; But something within me is whispering, "Never Be so taken up with sublunary sight!" The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects A fortnight's complete abstraction from all sublunary cares has done me much good, and I am now ready to put on my spectacles and look about me…. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 I ask myself this question for the first time, as in ordinary circumstances, the Bourse is of all sublunary things that which occupies me the least. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) He began, gradually, to delight in sublunary pleasures. Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., in Nine Volumes How indeed can they, when a fine and extensive imagination carries its expectation infinitely beyond reality, in the highest of our sublunary enjoyments? Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 4 Turning the attention from sublunary views, however enchanting, think for a moment with me of the house wherewith "they shall be abundantly satisfied," "Even the house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." Pulpit and Press (6th Edition) But from the Sophista you may learn the whole sublunary generation, and the idiom of the gods who are allotted the sublunary region, and preside over its generations and corruptions. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato This frothy and frenzied Republic is at that ebb where national "extreme unction" must be administered speedily, else the sufferer will pass away from the theatre of sublunary things without the benefit of clergy. Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 35, November 26, 1870 The second directs us to the knowledge of the influence and operations of the stars and planets upon sublunary bodies, and without this last the former is of little use. Thaumaturgia Old Mortality was not one of those religious devotees, who, although one eye is seemingly turned towards heaven, keep the other steadfastly fixed on some sublunary object. Old Mortality, Volume 1. His eyes were rather dull and vacant, not because he was either slow or stupid, but because he felt or affected to feel, a sublime indifference to all things sublunary. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales And lastly, he delivers the orders of the sublunary gods proceeding from wholes, according to the progression delivered by theologists of the intellectual kings. Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato His delight was to accompany some friend home, and then walk the friend, arm-in-arm, backwards and forwards in front of his, the friend's, door, discoursing of things sublunary and otherwise until two in the morning. Study and Stimulants; Or, the Use of Intoxicants and Narcotics in Relation to Intellectual Life But good and evil are strangely mingled in this sublunary world. The Surgeon's Daughter Here there is a limit, and a bound, even to the most praiseworthy of our affections, so far as they are turned upon sublunary and terrestrial objects. The Abbot Hence the occasional skirmishes and alarms which may lead my friends to misdoubt my absolute detachment from sublunary affairs. Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 He heeds nothing more sublunary than the course of the planets. Love and Life An Old Story in Eighteenth Century Costume I was, however, too sleepy to waste much sentiment upon the gloomy walls of my apartment, and was soon lost to all sublunary things. Four Months in a Sneak-Box With this prudent resolve, he threw himself along the bed in the spare-room, and was oblivious of everything sublunary until sunrise. At Last It was quite natural that you should forget the needs of sublunary mortals, but that I should do so must prove the existence of an undeveloped trait. An Original Belle He certainly appears to neglect all sublunary things; and, to judge from certain appearances, since you seem fond of holy similitudes, one would say, that, like St. Serapion the Sindonite, he had but one shirt. Hyperion I said—last sublunary revolution, and this idea awakened many strange ideas. The Physiology of Taste The habits of the household were, to say the least, irregular; for Shelley took no thought of sublunary matters, and Harriet was an indifferent housekeeper. Percy Bysshe Shelley Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disasters? Ulysses Neither you nor Eugene can understand these vicissitudes of sublunary attachments; for you have nothing in common with the stormy and changeful sea of ordinary loves. Prince Eugene and His Times On the contrary," said I, "it has steadied and amplified my conception of sublunary affairs. Simon the Jester "Well, let us make some lines, and see if the bait will draw here as it does in sublunary regions." A Journey to the Interior of the Earth She herself was so infinitely superior to all wealth, to all rank, to all sublunary arrangements, conventions, and considerations, that there was no room for confidence of that nature. The Duke's Children How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys. Ulysses In Al-Rashid's day a mighty change had passed over the primitive simplicity of Al-Islam, the change to which faiths and creeds, like races and empires and all things sublunary, are subject. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 After his death we made a home for Edward in London, and looked after him when he used to be smitten with some new idea and forgot all sublunary matters. Clever Woman of the Family Both Thomas and Bridget were unfortunately out, being, at this moment, forgetful of all sublunary cares, and seated in happiness under a beech-tree in the park. Doctor Thorne Swithin sighed, lowered his thoughts to sublunary things, and told briefly the story of his journey. Two on a Tower They had looked to it so long that perhaps no sublunary thing could have realized their expectations, and Friedel avowed that he did not know what he thought of it. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest He spoke in squarely shaped sentences, and was supremely satisfied with a condition of sublunary things which made weapons a necessity. Wessex Tales Aristotle, that the part of the world which is sublunary is subject to change, and there terrestrial beings find a decay. Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies What cared he for the sordid affairs of the sublunary sphere? Samuel Brohl and Company Those features which usually attract the eye of the visitor to a new latitude are the novel forms of human and vegetable life, and other such sublunary things. Two on a Tower But, to his utter amazement and supreme delight, he found, on reaching the top of Arthur's Seat, that this sublunary rainbow, this terrestrial glory, was spread in its most vivid hues beneath his feet. The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Emily sometimes seems to think that she would like to give up business, and London, and all sublunary troubles, in order that she might settle herself for life under an Italian sky. The Prime Minister An Imperial birthday, even an Imperial marriage, pales before the important hour at which all sublunary affairs are supposed to start afresh, every account balanced and every debt paid. Historic China, and other sketches And it was some beggarly Attorney-Devil that built this sublunary world and us? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 Such variegated splendor, such a dancing of the Constellations; sublunary Berlin, and all the world, on tiptoe round it! History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 08 Man passes through this sublunary life as a sunbeam passes through a crack; here one moment, and gone the next. The Civilization of China But the Baron was exalted by wine, wrath, and scorn, above all sublunary considerations. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since But here alas and forever were shut off from him all sublunary prospects. A Plea for Old Cap Collier Awake, therefore, O soul, and eclipse not its brightness with thy dreams of sublunary power. The Light of Egypt; or, the science of the soul and the stars — Volume 2 Then, commenting upon the strangeness of all affairs sublunary, he relates that accident at length effected what labour could not do. A Vanished Arcadia: being some account of the Jesuits in Paraguay 1607-1767 Little Fyne held very solemn views as to the destiny of women on this earth, the nature of our sublunary love, the obligations of this transient life and so on. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The entrance of Mrs. Cruickshanks, with the sublunary articles of dinner and wine, hardly interrupted this pantomime of affectionate enthusiasm. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since The assembled Parlement declares that these its two martyrs cannot be given up, to any sublunary authority; moreover that the 'session is permanent,' admitting of no adjournment, till pursuit of them has been relinquished. The French Revolution With all sublunary entities, this is the question of questions. Latter-Day Pamphlets For far other objects was the English People created into this world; sent down from the Eternities, to mark with its history certain spaces in the current of sublunary Time! Latter-Day Pamphlets Prudence with them is a matter of thrill like the rest of sublunary contrivances. Chance A Tale in Two Parts The enterprise is great, the enterprise may be called formidable and even awful; but there is none nobler among the sublunary affairs of mankind just now. Latter-Day Pamphlets |
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