sublunary

• Were she not thus the representative of a passion that is intensely real, and that has come to be regarded, for better or for worse, as preeminently noble, she would now possess but very languid interest for the sublunary mind. —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
• The failure must be mainly attributed to the unlucky meddling of the friars, who have marshalled The helmed Cherubim And sworded Seraphim with exact military precision, ranged the celestial choir in rows like the fiddlers of a sublunary orchestra, and accommodated the congregation of the righteous with long benches, like those of a Methodist meeting-house! —  Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities of Art (Vol. 3 of 3)
• The last merges this multitude of divinities in a single God, who made the whole universe in the beginning, and guides and carries on its phaenomena by his continued action, or, as others think, only modifies them from time to time by special interferences 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
• 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)
• And hence the soul, from possessing motion, and energizing according to time, will both possess periods of motion and restitutions to its pristine state Again, as the human soul, according to Plato, ranks among the number of those souls that sometimes follow the mundane divinities, in consequence of subsisting immediately after daemons and heroes, the perpetual attendants of the gods, hence it possesses a power of descending infinitely into generation, or the sublunary region, and of ascending from generation to real being. —  Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato

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