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  • All Thracia with the empire of Constantinople, all Grecia, Epyrus, Illyricum, and now of late all the kyngdoms almost of Hungaria, with must of Austria, with lamentable slaughter of Christen bloud is wasted and all become Turkes.

    Archive 2004-06-06 Laban 2004

  • Mechanicks, which are the same with those of Nature, when divers things together strive to move one way, where there is not room enough for all; so those parts of bloud which issue from the left concavity of the heart tend towards the brain, the weaker and less agitated are expell'd by the stronger, who by that means arrive there alone.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • And besides this, experience shews, That all the bloud which is in the body may in a very little time run out by one onely artery's being cut, although it were even bound very neer the heart, and cut betwixt it and the ligature: So that we could have no reason to imagine that the bloud which issued thence could come from any other part.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • Three at the entry of the arterious vein; which being disposed quite contrary, permit only the bloud which is in that concavity to pass to the lungs; but not that which is in the lungs to return thither.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • And since this bloud which issues from the arm by the incision made in one of the veins, must necessarily have some passage under the bond, to wit, towards the extremities of the arm, whereby it may come thither by the arteries, he also proves very well what he sayes of the course of the bloud through certain little skins, which are so disposed in divers places along the veins, which permit it not to pass from the middle towards the extremities, but onely to return from the extremities towards the heart.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • For its manifest, that the band indifferently tyed, being able to hinder the bloud which is already in the arm to return towards the heart by the veins; yet it therefore hinders not the new from coming always by the arteries, by reason they are placed under the veins, and that their skin being thicker, are less easie to be press'd, as also that the bloud which comes from the heart, seeks more forcibly to passe by them towards the hand, then it doth to return from thence towards the heart by the veins.

    A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • This bond doth giue thee heere no iot of bloud, The words expresly are a pound of flesh: Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh, But in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian bloud, thy lands and goods Are by the Lawes of Venice confiscate Vnto the state of Venice

    Shylock Was Robbed, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • And it is observed by Gesner, that the bones, and hearts, & gals of Pikes are very medicinable for several Diseases, as to stop bloud, to abate Fevers, to cure Agues, to oppose or expel the infection of the Plague, and to be many wayes medicinable and useful for the good of mankind; but that the biting of a Pike is venemous and hard to be cured.

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • Christ giveth us his very body and bloud and really and truely performs in us his promise in feeding our soules unto eternal life.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • With favour, Montagu quotes from Justin Martyr's testimony that said, For wee do not receive these things as common bread or common drink: but even as our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, by the Word of God and Prayer, through which food beeing altered and changed, our flesh and bloud is sustained becommeth the flesh and bloud of him, that Jesus, who took our flesh in his Incarnation.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

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