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Was he to have recourse to this ultima ratio, merely because a parliament elected a year before, under the auspices of the party now in opposition, had passed, by a majority of nearly two to one, a measure introduced by the present Government, in pursuance of the acts of a former one?
"Tempora certa modosque, et, quod prius ordine verbum est, Posterius facias, praeponens ultima primis Invenias etiam disjecti membra poetae." he will never the more lose himself for that; the very pieces will be fine by themselves.
They were to march on the morrow, escorting as far as Laramie the intractables of Stabber's band, some few of the Indians to go in irons, among them Ralph Moreau, or Eagle Wing, now a notorious character. The general was there at Frayne, with old "Black Bill," erstwhile chief inspector of the department, once a subaltern in days long gone by when Laramie was "Ultima Thule" of the plains forts.
He says in his book on Genesis: "Terrestria animalia, tanquam ex ultimo elemento mundi ultima; nihilominus potentialiter, quorum numeros tempus postea visibiliter explicaret." Again he says:
Here, at a later day, Rollo the Dane had that memorable dream of leprosy, the cure of which was the conversion of North Gaul into Normandy, of Pagans into Christians, and the subsequent conquest of every throne in Christendom from Ultima Thule to Byzantium.
But houses and families and men have a' stood lang eneugh when they have stood till they fall with honour; and now I hae gotten a house that is not unlike a domus ultima' they were now standing below a steep rock. So, fare you well, my good lad, till we meet at Janet's in the even; for I must get into my Patmos, which is no easy matter for my auld stiff limbs.
"Now that you have found us, Sir Ulysses" continued my eccentric host, motioning me, with an indescribably princely wave of the hand to accompany him "you must certainly give us the pleasure of your company to luncheon. Visitors are as rare as black swans on this Ultima Thule of ours though, by the way, the black swan, cygnus atratus, is nothing like so rare as the ancients believed.
It is a glorious fact, proved by the hard and bare statistics furnished annually by the Board of Trade, and from other sources, that his name is legion, and that the men of whom he is a type swarm all round our coasts, from the old Ultima Thule to the Land's End. Yes, Tommy was in good training. He had begun well. He was evidently a chip of the elder block.
And the astrologers of this renowned observatory? The very opposite of all they promised me has come to pass. "Religion? The people, of whom you know as little from the musty volumes of the Museum as of 'Ultima Thule' the people indeed practice it. The old gods are necessary to them. They are the bread of life to them.
In a word, the advantages to be derived by the government, the general, and the American soldiers, were stipulated beforehand in such a manner as to prevent all future discussions. Upon one of these banners a cannon was painted, with this device: Ultima ratio, suppressing the word regum, which is used in Europe; upon another, a crown of laurel united to a civic crown, with the device No other.