primum mobile

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“Hellgate” is now the orifice in the primum mobile towards the empyrean.

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Moral virtue is with me a primum mobile in all things.

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The thought of the two outer spheres, the primum mobile, whirling along with it all the inner spheres, and the firmament, bearing hosts of bright stars, seems to have appealed strongly to the poet’s imagination.

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I need not say that your correspondent is quite right in referring the words first moved to the primum mobile.

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The grand difficulty is to find a primum mobile, or first mover, when the very act of seeking implies a primum mobile, which the conditions of the act deny.

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