Dean figured with everything happening, sleep would be slow in coming.
But these reforms were of necessity slow in their beneficial operation.
As Kant put it, this was "the proclamation of a great reform, which, however, will be slow in manifestation and in progress, and which will affect not only your people but others as well."
From Italy, France and Germany the fathers were slow in appearing at Basel.
Kutusov had been very slow in exploiting his success of the 24th and indeed had begun the pursuit in a false direction; but about the 2nd of November, headquarters of the French being at Vyazma, the Cossacks became so threatening that the emperor ordered the army to march (as in Egypt) in hollow square.