1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Wks., II. 160/2. All the world may well be cai’d a Boat, Tost on the troublous waues of discontent, All subject into change vnpermanent.
1668. H. More, Div. Dial., IV. xiii. 56. Because it was so short and unpermanent the Prophecy seems to take no express notice of it.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa, III. 362. Who would not,… to preserve so many essentials, give up so light, so unpermanent a pleasure?
1788. D. Gilson, Serm. Pract. Subj., i. 9. The splendors he … pursued, have been found both unreal and unpermanent.
1804–9. Blake, Select. Milton, Los, 5. Not one moment Of Time is lost, nor one event of Space unpermanent.
