Centuries-long

No city in the world has a more varied history and interest, and in none can better be traced the centuries-long line of steady progress from barbarism to civilisation.

For he had not only handed in his resignation as Chief of Staff; he had gone a step further. He had left the Army, given up his title of general. He had done something that had scarcely ever happened during the centuries-long history of the Prussian Army.

In his great survey of the material, Lenz Kriss-Rettenbeck concluded that “there is probably no comparable form that enjoys the same structural consistency and provides more effectively valid a mode of signification, in terms of its centuries-long use in the most various cultures and language groups, at all social levels of the Catholic world, and at all conceivable aesthetic levels.”