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  • Let us settle all scores by subscribing to a colossal statue of the late Town-Crier in bell-metal, with the inscription, "VOX ET PRAETEREA NIHIL," as a comprehensive tribute to oratorical powers in general.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • Porto Carrero, but which bears neither name nor date, only this inscription of arrogant humility, HIC JACET PULVIS CINIS ET NIHIL, we walk into the verdurous and cheerful Gothic cloisters.

    Castilian Days John Hay 1870

  • I ken naething about your name, and can only testify, NIHIL NOVIT IN CAUSA. '

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • NIHIL NOVIT IN CAUSA, nothing is known of the case.

    Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801

  • Surdum audit loquiturque NIHIL sine voce, volatque

    Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 Samuel Johnson 1746

  • When we apprehend that it is impossible a thing can arise from nothing, this proposition, EX NIHILO NIHIL FIT, is not considered as somewhat existing, or as the mode of a thing, but as an eternal truth having its seat in our mind, and is called a common notion or axiom.

    The Selections from the Principles of Philosophy Ren�� Descartes 1623

  • NIHIL OBSTAT: I have concluded that the materials presented in this work are free of doctrinal or moral errors.

    Biblical Evidence for Catholicism 2009

  • NIHIL OBSTAT: I have concluded that the materials presented in this work are free of doctrinal or moral errors.

    Latest Articles 2008

  • XVIII CAESAR BORGIA'S MOTTO, "AUT CÆSAR, AUT NIHIL"

    Caesar or Nothing P��o Baroja 1914

  • LONDON, E.C. NIHIL OBSTAT JOANNES N. STRASSMAIER, S.J. Censor Deputatus

    Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux 1873-1897 1912

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