"Ultimo" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... The seventh article, as also the twelfth, that stipulates that trade shall remain unmolested—of the armistice or military convention which I had the honor to ratify and to exchange with your Excellency the 24th ultimo—has been repeatedly violated, beginning soon after date, on the part of Mexico; and I now have good reasons to believe that within the last forty-eight hours, if not earlier, the third article of that convention has ...
— General Scott • General Marcus J. Wright
... todo cuanto hacian y decian, era en orden al maiz, que poco falto para tenerlo por Dios, y era, y es, tanto el encanto y embelezo que tienen con las milpas que por ellas olvidan hijos y muger y otro cualquiera deleite, como si fuera la milpa su ultimo fin y bienaventuranza." Chronica de la S. Provincia del Santissimo Nombre de Jesus de Guattemala, Cap. VII. MS. of the seventeenth century, generally known as the ...
— The Annals of the Cakchiquels • Daniel G. Brinton
... Laon (c. 1100): "Inscribitur in ultimo ordine et figura [symbol] sipos nomine, quae, licet numerum nullum signitet, tantum ad alia quaedam utilis, ut insequentibus declarabitur." ["Der Arithmetische Tractat des Radulph von Laon," Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der Mathematik, Vol. V, p. 97, from a manuscript ...
— The Hindu-Arabic Numerals • David Eugene Smith
... Some particular reasons combining with the peculiar situation of my private concerns, the necessity of paying attention to them, a wish for retirement and relaxation from public cares, and rheumatic pains which I begin to feel very sensibly, induced me, on the 31st ultimo, to address a circular letter to each state society, informing them of my intention not to be at the next meeting, and of my desire not to be rechosen president. The vice-president is also informed of this, that the business of the society may not ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) • John Marshall
... have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 23rd ultimo, inclosing a copy of a dispatch from Mr. Secretary Hay on the subject of the conditions of the Jews ...
— Notes on the Diplomatic History of the Jewish Question • Lucien Wolf |
