As this was an expedition I had long projected, I agreed to accompany them next day, their mother being content to have Francis left with her as a protector.
After dinner, we began to discuss a plan I had long had in my head; but the execution of it presented many difficulties.
Even Maximilian of Bavaria, Austria's most powerful ally, seemed disposed to yield to the seductive proposition of neutrality; while his suspicious alliance with France had long been a subject of apprehension to the Emperor.
Three of them, Colonels Kinsky, Terzky, and Illo, had long been in his secrets, and the two first were further united to his interests by the ties of relationship.
The rich archbishopric, of which Magdeburg was the capital, had long been in the possession of princes of the house of Brandenburg, who introduced the Protestant religion into the province.
Child had been originally brought into the direction by these men; he had long acted in concert with them; and he was supposed to hold their political opinions.
It contained little more than what he had long known, and had long, with politic and generous dissimulation, affected not to know.
As to the first of these I had long felt, and still feel, that of all the weaknesses in our institutions, one of the most serious is our laxity in the administration of the criminal law.
Another department which I had long wished to see established in our country now began to take shape.
At another time I went into a famous book-shop near the Haymarket to purchase a rare book which I had long coveted.
It had long seemed to me that a great lack in our American universities was just that sort of impulse which non-resident professors or lecturers of a high order could give.
I had long been an admirer of Mr. Sumner, with the feeling which a young man would naturally cherish toward an older man of such high character who had given him early recognition; and I now approached him with especial gratitude and respect.
This venerable man, who had been acquainted in his youth with the Apostle John, had long occupied a high position as a prudent, exemplary, and devoted minister.
He had long reckoned on the assistance of the 9th corps, which Marshal Victor was bringing him from Germany.
Peace had become necessary for the Russians; for the Prussians it had long been so.
It had long been an idea of the First Consul's thus to intimidate the English Government, but it was only the people on the coast who were really alarmed.
Philip remembered all sorts of things of his childhood which he thought he had long forgotten.
He had long come to the conclusion that nothing amused him more than metaphysics, but he was not so sure of their efficacy in the affairs of life.
He had longperiods in which he wished, with a cheerful smile, for martyrdom in the service of truth and of his God.
But even in the preparations for the invasion the King showed that he had longhoped to measure himself against Austria.
I had long had a strange presentiment as to this event.
I once met with a literary man in New York who told me he had long desired to make my acquaintance, because he had heard her praise me so immeasurably beyond anybody else she had ever known, that he wanted to see what manner of man I could be.
I had long felt a deep desire to visit Munich, to study art, and to investigate fundamentally the wonderful and mysterious science of AEsthetics, of which I had heard so much.
He had long been an intimate friend of Russel Sturgis, subsequently of "Baring Brothers.
He had long foreseen, however, that the time was coming when a serious disagreement with his father was inevitable.
He had long, iron-gray hair and a creased, fleshy face and sunken eyes.
The consequences of this culminating conflict between them, the coming of which he had long dreaded--although he had not foreseen its specific cause--weighed heavily upon Austen.
He had long been a member of the select committee to investigate Indian affairs, and he had bestowed great attention to them, and fully understood the course which Hastings had pursued.
As soon as his power was established, and the country was at peace, and he had gained friends, he began to execute those projects of ambition which he had long formed.
He now reached the exalted height to which he had long aspired.
It had long been a fashionable thing: the disprized lover murders the disprizing lover and then executes the murderer.
The whole nation was turning again toward soldiering, drifting slowly and resistingly, but helplessly, into the very things it had long denounced as Prussianism and conscription.
He laughed with a purity of cheer that he had long lost in his legal establishment.
When I had long exerted my whole soul to favor the world with a new work, it still desired that I should thank it into the bargain for considering the work endurable.
The peace which for many years had blissfully dwelt amid our mountains and hills, and in our delightfully watered valleys, had long been, if not disturbed, at least threatened, by military expeditions.
Then he quietly related that having decided upon a great deed he had long hesitated as to which edifice he should destroy.
The whole press, moreover, had longbeen up in arms against the young woman's extraordinary caprice.
He had long determined to marry Mademoiselle Cormon; for the Charter, on which he had just been ruminating, offered to his ambition, through the half of her property, the political career of a deputy.
He now went to the deep pool he had long selected, and glided into it resolutely, trying to make as little noise as possible, and, in fact, making scarcely any.
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