vox et praeterea nihil

[ wohks et prahy-te-re-ah ni-hil; English voks et pri-teer-ee-uh nahy-hil ]

Latin.

1. a voice and nothing more.

Example Sentences

But of this Logos we ignorant undergraduates, sitting at the feet of Prof. Weisse, knew absolutely nothing, and even if the Idea was sometimes placed before us as the Absolute, the Infinite, or the Divine, it was to us, at least to most of us, myself included, vox et praeterea nihil.

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Vox et praeterea nihil,—which signifies, Yeck, that to converse with women is always delightful.

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Old Mr. Wesley had once dismissed him contemptuously as vox et praeterea nihil: but disembodied thus, almost a thing celestial, yet subtly recalling home to her and ties renounced, the voice shook Hetty's soul.

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Who ever heard, indeed, of commotion such as this is pretended to have been, and its ending in vox et praeterea nihil?

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Nathan on the ecclesiastical year, 381. —— on "Vox et praeterea nihil," 387.

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