In the past, the duties of the state, as Sir Henry Maine noted long ago, were only two in number: internal order and external security.

Not long ago an acquaintance, a slick-headed water rat of a lad up from the maw of the city, stood on the balcony puffing his first cigarette in weeks.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.

It ignores the sordid financial aspects ( quite conveniently, too, for his audience, who could indulge in moral indignation without visible, or even conscious, discomfort, their money from the transaction having been put away long ago in a good antiseptic brokerage ).

But that was a long time ago.

A Yale historian, writing a few years ago in The Yale Review, said: `` We in New England have long since segregated our children ''.

And here again we hear the same refrain mentioned above: `` the paramount goal of the United States set long ago was to guard the rights of the individual, ensure his development, enlarge his opportunity ''.

Perhaps one day He will choose you as He chose me, long ago.

Andrei remembered a Bathyran meeting long ago.

She'd found it by luck most likely but she hadn't said anything and we didn't know how long ago it'd been or how many other ones she'd found, saying nothing.

She was forty-nine at this time, a lanky woman of breeding with an austere, narrow face which had the distinction of a steeple or some architecture that had been designed long ago for a stubborn sort of prayer.

Not so long ago many builders were finding they could cut their costs by `` buying direct '' and short-cutting the dealer.

Not long ago, I rode down with him in an elevator in Radio City ; ;

As long ago as 1851 it was pointed out by Niepce ( 1851 ) that there is a connection between the pituitary and the thyroid.

Durkheim noted long ago that religion as `` a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things unites into one single moral community all those who adhere to them ''.

Private George Gray Hunter of Pennsylvania wrote: `` I am well convinced in my own mind that had it not been for officers this war would have ended long ago ''.

A freshman girl's father not too long ago called a dean at Brooklyn College and demanded the `` low-down '' on a boy who was going out with his daughter.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

not long ago `` Denver Mud '' was most popular.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

A few years ago, not too long before his death, Phillips revealed in a newspaper story that he had always suspected Morse of the murders.

Some of them ignored the texts and had apparently memorized the words long ago.

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.

On 24 August The Sun newspaper republished photographs in Britain, after a " long and hard " consideration.

The enclaves of gays and lesbians, described by a newspaper story as " short haired women and long haired men ", developed a distinct subculture through the following two decades.

Nicknamed " the Old Gray Lady ", and long regarded within the industry as a national " newspaper of record ", The New York Times is owned by The New York Times Company, which also publishes 18 other newspapers including the International Herald Tribune and The Boston Globe.

Not long after their return, Harding reorganized his newspaper business into the Harding Publishing Co., issued stock in the company, took two-thirds for himself and allowed his employees to purchase the rest ; this was the first profit sharing arrangement of its kind in Ohio.

According to the national newspaper, the Kuensel, the previous King stated to his cabinet that " as long as he himself continued to be King, the Crown Prince would not gain the actual experience of dealing with issues and carrying out the responsibilities of a head of state.

During the long and complicated campaign against Vicksburg, one newspaper complained that the " army was being ruined in mud-turtle expeditions, under the leadership of a drunkard, whose confidential adviser was a lunatic.

Jansson had already drawn a long Moomin comic adventure, Mumintrollet och jordens undergång (" Moomintrolls and the End of the World "), based loosely on Comet in Moominland, for the Swedish-language newspaper Ny Tid, and she accepted the offer.

It had long been celebrated in a local festival called " Jindo Sea Parting Festival ", but was largely unknown to the world until 1975, when the French ambassador Pierre Randi described the phenomenon in a French newspaper.

In 1968, after a long campaign by The Sunday Times newspaper, a compensation settlement for the UK victims was reached with Distillers Company ( now part of Diageo ), which had distributed the drug in the UK.

The memoir became cause for controversy, because shortly before Derrida published his piece, it had been discovered by the Belgian literary critic Ortwin de Graef that long before his academic career in the US, de Man had written almost two hundred essays in a pro-Nazi newspaper during the German occupation of Belgium, including several that were explicitly antisemitic.

After a long history of paid circulation, on 12 October 2009 the Standard became a free newspaper, with free circulation limited to central London.

As he had long been determined ‘… to edit a perfect newspaper ,’ Rintoul initially insisted on ‘ absolute power ’ over content, commencing a longlasting tradition of the paper ’ s editor and proprietor being one and the same person.

The broadsheet is the largest of the various newspaper formats and is characterized by long vertical pages ( typically or more ).

Though not used in official communication, the nickname " Illinois Tech " has long been a favorite of students, inspiring the name of the student newspaper ; ( renamed in 1928 from Armour Tech News to TechNews ), and the former mascot of the university's collegiate sports teams, the Techawks.

The leading conservative Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten argued in an editorial that Ossietzky was a criminal who had attacked his country " with the use of methods that violated the law long before Hitler came into power " and that " lasting peace between peoples and nations can only be achieved by respecting the existing laws ".

Lang spent his long retirement editing his newspaper The Century, and wrote several books about his political life, including The Great Bust, I Remember and The Turbulent Years.

Cranford has long been a newspaper community.

Later on, in the anniversary issue of Min Bao, his long speech of the Three Principles were printed, and the editors of the newspaper discussed the problem of people's livelihood.

This newspaper was particularly aimed at the southeast side of the county, but because of lack of subscribers, not long sustained.

In order to alleviate the tedium of the long Arctic winter, Sabine produced a weekly newspaper for the amusement of the crew.

On his first show after the break Schmidt appeared with long hair and a fluffy full beard ( which looked kind of grey-white-blond-yellowish and reminiscent of Ernest Hemingway and made it to the newspaper headlines the next morning ) making fun of his long absence from the public.