nihil

• And as to compositions which the authors themselves announce with "Hæc ipsi novimus esse nihil," why should we judge by a dif- ferent rule two printed works, only because the one author was alive, and the other in his grave? —  Biographia Literaria
• Jamque observatio vitæ Multa dedit:--lugere nihil, ferre omnia; jamque Paulatim lacrymas rerum experientia tersit CHAPTER XI. —  Biographia Literaria
• A dictum he quotes from a favorite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669), suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don't invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power. —  The New York Review of Books
• Et in hac Trinitate nihil prius aut posterius, nihil maius aut minus: sed totae tres personae coaeternae sibi sunt et coaequales. —  Latest Articles
• Only once he hit bottom could the "fall" be reversed, the rock bottom nihil of dark death being the "relatively absolute" separation from God. —  One Cosmos

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