Sanders, however, cautions that even historically plausible elements in John can hardly be taken as historical evidence, as they may well represent the author's intuition rather than historical recollection.

The silence of its fall astonished imaginations warmed by historical recollections from the brilliant pages of its maritime glory.

No country came under Bonaparte's observation without recalling historical recollections to his mind.

It was not so much the monuments themselves that he admired, but the historical recollections they perpetuate the great names they consecrate, the important events they attest.

By the commencement of the year 1802 the Republic had ceased to be anything else than a fiction, or an historical recollection.

The puzzle disappears once it is agreed that there is here a genuine historical recollection: only Jesus used the term, and the evangelists and their sources faithfully recorded that fact.

One would imagine that there would only be one way to record past events, that historical recollection would be an area of study free from the "howevers" that plague other fields.

With John Charlton Fisher, he contributed material for Alfred Hawkins's book Hawkins's picture of Quebec; with historical recollections, published at Quebec in 1834.

Was it here this strange man came to steep himself in historical recollections, and live again this ancient life - he who wanted no modern one?

Her daughter, Lady Anne Lytton, later provided valuable historical recollections of the horses and practices of the Crabbet Stud.