It receives its name from its note, which is thought to resemble those words.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Moral philosophy has, indeed, this peculiar disadvantage, which is not found in natural, that in collecting its experiments, it cannot make them purposely, with premeditation, and after such a manner as to satisfy itself concerning every particular difficulty which may be.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

There are some philosophers, who attack the female virtues with great vehemence, and fancy they have gone very far in detecting popular errors, when they can show, that there is no foundation in nature for all that exterior modesty, which we require in the expressions, and dress, and behaviour of the fair sex.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The youth rubbed his sleepy eyes and stared for a while at him who held him, but presently recognised him as one of his father's servants, at which he was so taken aback that for some time he could not find or utter a word; while the servant went on to say, "There is nothing for it now, Senor Don Luis, but to submit quietly and return home, unless it is your wish that my lord, your father, should take his departure for the other world, for nothing else can be the consequence of the grief he is in at your absence."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

At all events, Senora, whether by oversight or intention, you are certainly damned, like myself; and there is nothing for it now but to make the best of it.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

But we must have recourse again to the same original principle, that a wise man is free from all sorrow, because it is vain, because it answers no purpose, because it is not founded in nature, but on opinion and prejudice, and is engendered by a kind of invitation to grieve, when once men have imagined that it is their duty to do so.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

3687 Of this place, which probably took its name from its numerous vines, nothing whatever is known.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

So long as in using terms there is no fixed intent, no concretion in discourse with discernible predicates, controversy will rage as conceptions waver and will reach no valid result.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

There is nothing for it now but to wait till I know where she is.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

II Nay, for I need to see your face!
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

There is nothing for it now but to face and fight to the last breath.
— from The Story of the Trapper by Agnes C. Laut

— “I now feel it necessary to inform the public that the usual or ordinary way of producing illustrated novels or romances is, for an author either to write out, from his own ideas, the whole of the tale, or in parts; the manuscript or letterpress of which is then handed to an artist to read and select subjects from for his illustrations, or sometimes for the author to suggest to the artist such subjects, scenes, or parts, as he might wish to be illustrated.
— from The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, Vol. 1. (of 2) by Blanchard Jerrold

Kalm says that "it grows in all the British colonies of America, and likewise in the southern parts of Canada, but I never found it near Quebec.
— from The Conquest of Canada, Vol. 1 by George Warburton

The town, for example, 383 is noted for its native chocolate.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck