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• For one thing, it was needful to be always carefully on the watch to avoid falling into mistakes geographical, topographical, natural-historical, and otherwise For instance, despite the utmost care of which I was capable, while studying up for The Coral Island_, I fell into a blunder through ignorance in regard to a familiar fruit. —  Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories
• For every fairy tale worth recording at all is the remnant of a tradition possessing true historical value;--historical, at least in so far as it has naturally arisen out of the mind of a people under special circumstances, and risen not without meaning, nor removed altogether from their sphere of religious faith. —  On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
• One member suggested we should try the fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, as being both abstract and historical--but he was deemed to be a scoffer. —  Boycotted And Other Stories
• The worthy archbishop, with divers arguments, defends his position, that the earthly paradise does still exist in the East, and hell in the West: which latter proposition is not surprising when we recall the historical circumstances under which it was enounced The monks continued to be the leaders in the educational and literary army, and under the stress of circumstances, not only won immense political influence over the life of the people, but also developed a new and special type of literature--political sermons--which attained to particular development in the fourteenth century. —  A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections
• I had never even heard of the sort of people you seem to have known The tram car came noisily up to them, and no more was said V A notice posted the following day to the effect that for some time the reading-room would be closed one day in the week for repairs, gave Harrison an excuse for insisting on weekly repetitions of what he called their historical picnics Miss Midland let herself be urged into these with a half-fearful pleasure which struck the young American as pathetic. —  Short Stories of Various Types

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