The phrase "historical expressions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to phrases, sayings, or language that have significance or relevance in a historical context.
Example: "The study of historical expressions can reveal much about the culture and values of past societies."
Alternatives: "historical phrases" or "historical sayings".
Thus, its historical expressions may be as diverse as the Jeffersonian United States and Hitlerian Germany.
That means the Book of Mormon, the faith's key scripture, or historical expressions, such as the "Mormon Trail," will remain the same.
The historical expressions of pastoral care have focused on the predominant but not exclusive expressions of ultimate concern characteristic of the period in question.
It attempts to make sense of what are all essentially free schools by interviewing the architects of policy and their closest advisors, analysing the extent to which they invoke historical expressions of conservatism and/or liberalism in their articulation of that convergence.
This implies, first, the view that tradition extends into the present and, second, the claim that in order to gain understanding of history, hence also of the interpreter's own time, historical expressions should not be judged by the criteria of the present but be seen within their own context, be it cultural, political, religious, or all of the above.
I'm certainly not anywhere near as enlightened as the greatest historical expressions of humanity's highest spiritual attainment, but my teacher did bestow upon me a measure of what they knew.
…solely the historical expression of class struggle.
For Frankel, Hebrew represented the spirit of Judaism and the Jewish people, and Judaism itself was not merely a theology of ethics but the historical expression of the Jewish experience; this definition he called "positive-historical Judaism".
(Tolstoy was a grandson of one of the main Decembrist leaders, Sergei Volkonsky). For it was that earlier period which gave his fascination with a novelistic vitality "contrary to all rules of logic" its fullest chance of historical expression.
It is not "a collection of only high achievement based on the judgment of the period in which we live, which most collections are, but a living historical expression".
Certain philosophical ideas are only capable of achieving historical expression under specific historical conditions.
