historical

Hagiography, the historical genre which is the subject of this week's seminar, comprises narratives concerned with the saints and their achievements, especially the miracles which God has performed through them and on their behalf.

But concerning some persons of your neighbourhood... their Confession [of Faith] is rather an opinion than a true and sincere earnestness, for all of them are not that which they boast and glory to be; there may be many honest hearts among them; but many of them are only historical and titular, and desire only to show themselves, and to be applauded ...

The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.

The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.

EB: We live in a special time of awakening. This is a historical moment for Egypt

DS: In which many see you as a kind of messiah.

EB: I neither can nor want to be a savior.

historical-political