primum mobile
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Seraphs, the most powerful angels, kept the primum mobile moving; cherubs moved the zodiac, thrones the sphere of Saturn, and so on down to the moon, which fell under the care of common angels.
From Time Magazine Archive
The innermost was the central and unmoving earth; outward from the earth were the spheres of the moon, of the five known planets, of the sun and the zodiac, and finally the primum mobile.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was no doubt whatever that Judge McCamant was the primum mobile of the chain of accidents which made our present President.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the last week in the month of November, 18—, when the event occurred which proved to be the primum mobile of the following adventures.
From The Secret of the Sands The "Water Lily" and her Crew by Collingwood, Harry
The truth is, that in these days the grand "primum mobile" of England is cant; cant political, cant poetical, cant religious, cant moral; but always cant, multiplied through all the varieties of life.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals by Moore, Thomas
