For we have seen that sickness and death were commonly ascribed to the action of these spirits,[242] which seems to imply that they revisited this sublunaryworld on their errands of mischief.
Aristotle, that the part of the world which is sublunary is subject to change, and there terrestrial beings find a decay.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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!
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 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.
Of which he gave us this illustration; and as it is supposed to be the only specimen of the Bowyeriana which now survives in this sublunary world, we are glad to extend its glory.
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.
He then proceeded further to examin the Nature of Bodies in this Sublunary World, viz.
He seems not to share in our sublunary contentions; he wears no sign of interest; when on a sudden there falls in a crystal of wit, so polished that the dull do not perceive it, but so right that the sensitive are silenced.
The grave sets bounds to sublunary bliss; But there are conquests to great Anna known, Above the splendour of an earthly throne; Conquests!
No sublunary chance his vestments fear; Valu’d, like leopards, as their spots appear.
Fanny's rapid flow of laughing and picturesque words, could no more be kept up with by a sublunary instrument of record, than the shadow of a darting bird can be caught by the eager hand of the child grasping at it as it flits by on the sward.
We might very rationally suppose that the great poet, absorbed in the delights of poesy, and thus dead to the outer world, would have continued his recitation, and permitted such real, sublunary things as visitors to pass unheeded.
The ministering angels, those who come in contact with thesublunary world,[68] now repair to their chambers to take their purification bath.
Or, perhaps, theirs may be an utter lapse of memory concerning sublunary things; and they themselves be not themselves, as the butterfly is not the larva.
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.
Happiness in this sublunary state can scarcely be felt, but by a comparison with misery.
The moon is the domestic deity, whom the household must fear: the Fortuna who presides over the daily doings of sublunary mortals.
And now we record a few visits which men of this sublunary sphere are said to have paid to the moon.
Chaka had become greatly apprehensive of the approach of grey hairs; which would at once be the signal for him to prepare to make his exit from this sublunary world, it being always followed by the death of the monarch.
But a most unfailing experience (as far as can be hoped in natural phenomena) of the excitement of sublunary natures by the conjunctions and aspects of the planets, has instructed and compelled my unwilling belief.
Michael pondered the freshmen's chatter and apprehended dimly how this magical sublunarycity would convert all that effusion of naive intolerance to her own renown.
Monimia hears not my complaints; her soul, sublimed far, far above all sublunary cares, enjoys that felicity of which she was debarred on earth.
While thus abstracted from all sublunary things, and engaged in the exercise of devotion, they gain a more intimate communion with God.
Consider its opacity, if you marke these sublunary things, you shall perceive that amongst them, those that are most perspicuous, are not so well able to reverberate the Sunne beames as the thicker bodies.
But is it the generall consent of the Fathers, and the opinion of Lombard, that the heavens consist of the same matter with these sublunary bodies.
Fear was gone; they dared declare their love; oh, purest river of all sublunary pleasures!
And lastly, he delivers the orders of the sublunary gods proceeding from wholes, according to the progression delivered by theologists of the intellectual kings.
Again, in the Timaeus, endeavouring to teach us about the sublunary gods and their order, Plato flies to theologists, calls them the sons of the gods, and makes them the fathers of the truth about these divinities.
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.
I said--last sublunary revolution, and this idea awakened many strange ideas.
But here alas and forever were shut off from him all sublunary prospects.
Deadwood Dick marched many a flower-strewn mile through my young life, but to the best of my recollection he never shut off anybody's sublunary prospects.
Nothing is said there about anybody having his sublunary prospects shut off; nothing about the Redskin becoming the victim of a sublime sensibility.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sublunary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
