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  • This use of the word was not altogether novel; as early as the time of Gregory VII the opponents of Henry IV in Germany had been called Ultramontanes (ultramontani).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • The result of Vatican I was the triumphalism of the extreme Ultramontanes on the one hand, and on the other hand the excommunication of Döllinger and the Old Catholic schism.

    Newman, Continuity and Vatican II according to Fr. Ian Ker 2009

  • Which usage (together with many other disorders that accompanied it) made the Italian military so weak, that their province has been easily trampled on by all the Ultramontanes.

    Discourses 2003

  • FABRIZIO: I will tell you again, that the methods and organizations of war in all the world, with respect to those of the ancients, are extinct; but in Italy, they are entirely lost, and if there is something more powerful, it results from the examples of the Ultramontanes.

    The Art of War 2003

  • That this is true has been recognized by the many conquests made by the Ultramontanes in Italy, and especially that of Brescia; for when that land rebelled against the

    Discourses 2003

  • From the fifteenth century, the French enemies of the Gallican principles were beginning to be known as “Ultramontanes,” and, after the Counter-Reforma - tion, it was the Jesuits who distinguished themselves in this capacity.

    CHRISTIANITY IN HISTORY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Burr was a generation in advance of his Atlantic contemporaries, but he was not in advance of the Ultramontanes, only abreast of them, and well adapted to be their leader, from his military skill and his high political rank; for his duel with Hamilton had not injured him in their estimation.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various

  • Liberals had but a majority of one in the diet; from 1893 they could maintain themselves only with the aid of the Conservatives; and in 1897 a coalition of Ultramontanes, Socialists, Social-democrats and Radicals

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • Will the Ultramontanes admit the nullity of the excommunication?

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • I was to fight especially the Ultramontanes and the demagogues.

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

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