Transcendental motives for sublunary actions. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : fleeting, sublunary pleasure. From Dictionary.com.
How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
At that hour, Oh, how vain was every sublunary happiness!. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side] Reference
Dyed gloves and all other sublunary trials were forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
It is a of sublunary wisdom -- an umbrella over an oracle. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829] Reference
Bodies, which are in this sublunary World, had some of them more. From Wordnik.com. [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan] Reference
Province: Tho ', to say Truth, we have but few of your sublunary. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country] Reference
But good and evil are strangely mingled in this sublunary world. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
All which neglects of sublunary things are vulgarily imputed folly. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
For all things in this sublunary world pass away, nor do they remain. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
Providence has a hand in this, as in all other sublunary dispensations. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
The stolid indifference to all sublunary matters which had distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Nick of the Woods] Reference
When the rector was removed from this sublunary sphere, the Rev. Charles. From Wordnik.com. [Vellenaux A Novel] Reference
What, in this sublunary existence, is the state from which she shall neither rise nor fall?. From Wordnik.com. [Camilla] Reference
Here did they realize all the happiness which the sublunary hand of time apportions to mortals. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
Whatever or wherever the supralunary may be, our world is more interested in the sublunary tribes. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
And now we record a few visits which men of this sublunary sphere are said to have paid to the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
Swithin sighed, lowered his thoughts to sublunary things, and told briefly the story of his journey. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
And am I not now dying a victim to the horror and the mystery of the wildest of all sublunary visions?. From Wordnik.com. [Selections from Poe] Reference
It may give a holier turn to his thoughts -- wean him from sublunary vanities -- and purify his nature. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Story] Reference
“Well, let us make some lines, and see if the bait will draw here as it does in sublunary regions.”. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
They are the angelic and invisible world, the celestial, the sublunary and corruptible world, and mankind. From Wordnik.com. [MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM] Reference
Did he then accept as an article of belief the theory of astrological influences upon sublunary disasters?. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
He closed a life of high sublunary elevation, of constant uneasiness, and of glorious martyrdom, on March 21, 1556. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
If then the sublunary world was in a constant state of change, there must be some active cause producing this effect. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
From the cosmic point of view the nature in which we all live is the sublunary world, a world of change, corruption, diversity. From Wordnik.com. [NATURE] Reference
She was a dear old ship as ever floated, but like all other things sublunary, animate, or inanimate, was not without her faults. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
There dwells within his breast a deeper sentiment than that which is inspired by the worldly and sublunary distinctions of sect. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
The moon is the domestic deity, whom the household must fear: the Fortuna who presides over the daily doings of sublunary mortals. From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
With all the reckless simplicity of boyhood, I maintain that travelling by coach is by no means the least of our sublunary pleasures. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827] Reference
But while the worthy man strove to lead the sufferer beyond this sublunary sphere, his heart bled for the poor children she was leaving. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for the Young] Reference
Some idea of his literary style may be gathered from the letter which follows: (1) 'I heard Polemo declaim the other day, to say something of things sublunary. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
The end of this is health, peace, and plenty, and the happy prospect of felicities more durable than any thing in these sublunary regions, and to which this is. From Wordnik.com. [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference
And here it appear'd to him, that the real Essence of those Bodies, which are in this sublunary World, consisted in some, of one simple Notion added to Corporeity, as the four. From Wordnik.com. [The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan] Reference
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