Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Bratt next mysteriously remarks, "ne plus ultra." This quotation, taken from the ancient Druid philosopher, the Venerable Adam Bede, has puzzled not a few of Mr. Bratt's ardent admirers, mostly those, however, of finite and unphilosophical minds...
...parties. In it we see an evidence of the steady growth, in England as well as America, of the Roman Catholic Church; though, twenty years ago, few would have expected to see two such anomalies as the Romanists supporting the conservative government in England, and leading the ultra-radical movement in New York. But it has often been the policy of that church to make the means subservient to the end; and we need feel no surprise at finding them on any side in the political Donnybrook fair. Meanwhile, the elections in England seem to have been carried on with...
...made toward that foreign system, to themselves so attractive, they have at least had the opportunity of seeing the folly of utterly groundless speculation. For our own part, though changes in some particulars of our present system are eminently desirable, we are willing to give up all thought of ultra-marine emulation, and turn our efforts toward that rank among American colleges which is already ours in point of years...