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.

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 a newspaper advised those taking part in a contest that `` snapshots must be of a person not larger than Af inches ''.

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.

Lee Streiff, an acquaintance of many members of the movement who went on to become one of its chroniclers, believed that the news media saddled the movement for the long term with a set of false images:

In the 1980s, Selby made the acquaintance of punk rock singer Henry Rollins, who had long admired Selby's works and publicly championed them.

There she stayed during the very long winter and then went to Berlin, where she made the acquaintance of August Wilhelm Schlegel, who afterwards became one of her intimates at Coppet.

A journalist acquaintance from Austin has written that the two of them came from " extremely similar family backgrounds -- the old Southern wealth with rich heritage and families dedicated to civil rights long before it was hip to fight racism.

In Tear he also made acquaintance with Berelain sur Paendrag, the First of Mayene, the latest in a long line of Mayener rulers descended from Artur Hawkwing.

I have long wanted the chance of making your acquaintance.

When he was a child, he suffered tuberculosis that kept him in bed for a long time during which an acquaintance taught him physics and music.

As a young man, Bely was strongly influenced by his acquaintance with the family of philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, especially Vladimir's younger brother Mikhail, described in his long autobiographical poem The First Encounter ( 1921 ); the title is a reflection of Vladimir Solovyov's Three Encounters.

But he did not hold it long, having made the acquaintance of Count Schack, who commissioned a great number of copies for his collection.

In Paris he made the acquaintance of Marmontel ; in Switzerland, whither he continued his tour, that of Voltaire ; and in Rome, where he remained for a long time, he explored the antiquities of the city under the guidance of Winckelmann.

An interview with E. M. Forster — an acquaintance of Plimpton's from his days at King's College, Cambridge — became the first in a long series of now-legendary author interviews.

Roosevelt: The Story of a Friendship is a biography by Owen Wister, depicting his long acquaintance with Theodore Roosevelt, a Harvard classmate.

I thank you heartily for the pamphlet, and for the authorities you give me for the doctrines I have sworn by, long and long since: I know not how long, they have been my creed: I believe, before even my happiness in your acquaintance and friendship, tho ' they have certainly been strengthen'd and confirm'd by your conversation and instruction — in support of these principles I trust I shall ever act, and I shall continue to attempt their general propagation ;— whether by the best means, is matter of speculation: but by the best, according to my judgement — nothing can make me a disciple of Paine or Priestley, nor any thing induce me to proclaim, that I am not so, but in the mode I myself think the best to resist their mischief — private conversation and private insinuation may best suit the extent of my abilities, the turn of my temper, and the nature of my character ...

It was there he made the acquaintance of Karl Popper after having studied Popper's philosophy and having mostly accepted it long ago.

Don Fernando initiates an investigation after receiving a letter from a stranger, an acquaintance of his first wife, Rosario del Valle, whom he had long presumed killed in the civil war.

It was often remarked that when a person on being introduced to Lafontaine had talked with him for a little while, he felt as if he had known him for ever so long, which feeling of ' old acquaintance ' shows that he had an eminently sympathetic nature " ( Richard Harte-Hypnotism and the doctors )

After five years the anxiety and toil broke down his health, and compelled his return to Scotland, where he occupied himself in completing his History of the Mahrattas, the materials for which he had long been collecting with great diligence and under peculiarly favourable opportunities, through his access to state papers, and family and temple archives, and his personal acquaintance with the Mahratta chiefs ( see in Colebrooke, Life of Elphinstone, several letters to and from Grant ).