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• It is during this state withdrawn forcibly backwards over the glans, and in this situation, while being itself the first cause of constriction, it induces another -- namely, an arrest to the venous circulation, which is followed by a turgescence of the glans. Surgical Anatomy
• Therefore, if you will that I take any meddling in this process, first cause all these papers to be burnt; secondly, make the two gentlemen come personally before me, and afterwards, when I shall have heard them, I will tell you my opinion freely without any feignedness or dissimulation whatsoever. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
• Causa finalis, or the first cause -- you can't discover that! The Road to Damascus
• God is the first cause
• The Dominican theologians St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas, although they do not count beauty among the transcendentals, make a similar discourse in their commentaries on the Treaty of Pseudo-Dionysius De divinis nominibus, where the universality of beauty emerges, whose first cause is God Himself. Fr Lang on Beauty and the Liturgy
• The defence of their founder is the first cause, which in every age has exercised the zeal and industry of the civilians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Aristotle's scientific attitude led him to conceive of God primarily as a First Cause.
• It first caused a stink in Ambridge. Times, Sunday Times
• Since these events are foreknown, they are fixed and settled things; and nothing can have fixed and settled them except the good pleasure of God, — the great first cause, — freely and unchangeably foreordaining whatever comes to pass. The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination
• In his famous "antinomies", he proved four propositions: first, that the universe is limitless in time and space; second, that matter is composed of simple, indivisible elements; third, that free will is impossible; and fourth, that there must be an absolute or first cause. The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition