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 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.

( `` 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.

Denver had long been a hotbed of minor league baseball and many in the area desired a major league team.

* March 20 – The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Denver & Rio Grande Western, and Western Pacific railroads inaugurate the California Zephyr passenger train between Chicago and Oakland, California, as the first long distance train to feature Vista Dome cars as regular equipment.

The original group held together long enough to fulfill their existing engagements, culminating in the Denver Pop Festival on June 29, 1969.

Ricardo Baca of The Denver Post said, " EPs — originally extended-play ' single ' releases that are shorter than traditional albums — have long been popular with punk and indie bands.

* Denver Millennium Bridge: A long pedestrian bridge which won the Gold Award in 2003 from the New York Association of Consulting Engineers.

Even smaller skeletons, 210 centimeters ( 6. 9 ft ) long and 80 centimeters ( 2. 6 ft ) tall at the back, are on display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.

* On August 24, 1986 the original Frontier Airlines ceased operations and filed for bankruptcy, ending its seven year long service to Denver.

By 1991, the airport consisted of three wide runways, one of which had a length of, making it the longest runway in Colorado until 16R / 34L, a long runway, opened at Denver International Airport in September 2003.

Under the ICC revenue rules in place at the time, the Rock Island sought traffic from Omaha, yet preferred to keep the long haul to Denver, where interchange could be made with the Denver and Rio Grande Western, a connection to the Western Pacific for haulage to the west coast.

This rule did not actually come into use during the 2011 playoffs, as the sole overtime game that season resulted in the Denver Broncos scoring a long touchdown on their first play from scrimmage against the Pittsburgh Steelers, but nonetheless the rule was adopted for the start of the 2012 regular season shortly afterwards.

While in Denver, he met and maintained a long term friendship with the infamous confidence man, Soapy Smith and members of the Soap Gang.

Highway 31's main spur, Highway 31A, which also opened in 1973, is 47 km long, connecting Highway 31 at Kaslo to Highway 6 at New Denver.

Regis University, in accordance with its Jesuit heritage, has a long tradition of charitable service, which includes the well known Father Woody Projects, which originated with the Archdiocese of Denver.

During the bridge of the song, in which Denver holds a long note, fans yell " Ooooooooh!

The initial plan for the drainage was based on a proposal by John Hunt in 1604 – 1605, to construct a new river long from Earith to Denver, shortening the length of the River Great Ouse by many miles.

Before leaving Denver, Kowalski pulls into a biker bar parking lot around midnight to buy Benzedrine pills to stay awake for the long drive ahead.

The Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers, and Washington Redskins also have sellout streaks that predate the current blackout rules, and so have not had any of their home games blacked out since 1972 ( each of these teams also have long waiting lists for season tickets ).

After teaching briefly at the University of Denver, and Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, and at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania, he began his long career in Boston University School of Theology.

The creek flows through Clear Creek Canyon in the Rocky Mountains directly west of Denver, descending through a long gorge to emerge on the Colorado Eastern Plains where it joins the South Platte.

The majority of the route of the Moffat Road is open, except for a long, deteriorated trestle just east of the pass, and sections leading to the Needle's Eye Tunnel, a short high altitude railroad tunnel which was closed in 1990 after a rock fell from the ceiling injuring a Denver firefighter.

Leonidas E. " Lonie " Paxton III born March 13, 1978 ) is an American football long snapper for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League.

Approximately long, it is located in the north-central portion of the state, traversing the mountains on the east of the continental divide south of Estes Park as well as portions of the Colorado Piedmont north of Denver.

Hodel was signed by the New England Patriots on March 10, 2009 after the team's previous long snapper, Lonie Paxton, signed with the Denver Broncos.