"Primum mobile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Inadvertencies in his 'Lives of the Poets' His 'Gertrude of Wyoming' full of false scenery See, also Canning, Right Hon. George His oratory ——, Sir Stratford, his poem entitled 'Buonaparte' Canova His early love Cant, 'the grand primum mobile of England' Cantemir, Demetrius, his 'History of the Ottoman Empire,' Carlile, Richard, folly of his trial Carlisle (Frederick Howard), fifth Earl of, becomes Lord Byron's guardian His alleged neglect of his ward Proposed reconciliation between ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... it; though at last yielding to the greatness of Northumberland, in an age when it was present drowning not to swim with the stream. But as the philosopher tells us, that though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west, by the motion of the primum mobile, yet have they also a contrary proper motion of their own from west to east, which they slowly, though surely, move, at their leisure; so Cecil had secret counter-endeavours against the strain of the court herein, and privately advanced his rightful intentions, ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... SEQUENCE IN EVENTS % 153. [Constant antecedent]. Cause.— N. cause, origin, source, principle, element; occasioner[obs3], prime mover, primum mobile[Lat]; vera causa[Lat]; author &c. (producer) 164; mainspring; agent; leaven; groundwork, foundation &c. (support) 215. spring, fountain, well, font; fountainhead, spring head, wellhead; fons et origo[Lat], ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... thereto. Yea, he openly opposed it; though at last yielding to the greatness of Northumberland, in an age when it was present drowning not to swim with the stream. But as the philosopher tells us, that though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west, by the motion of the primum mobile, yet have they also a contrary proper motion of their own from west to east, which they slowly, though surely, move, at their leisure; so Cecil had secret counter-endeavours against the strain of the court herein, and privately advanced his rightful ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... all its sweet details, of course! Good heavens, who would be so barbarous as to ask such a thing in the first delicious month of an engagement! No, I of only I want you to tell us what was the primum mobile in the matter. ...
— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson |
