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Primum mobile  n.  (Astron.) In the Ptolemaic system, the outermost of the revolving concentric spheres constituting the universe, the motion of which was supposed to carry with it all the inclosed spheres with their planets in a daily revolution from east to west. See Crystalline heavens, under Crystalline. "The motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be, as the motions of the planets, under primum mobile."





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... 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


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