But, as the 74-year-old Mr. Bruce put it, Mr. Mackay strayed too far into his "historical precinct," igniting a dispute about plagiarism that probably will result in the shredding of several thousand copies of "Alexander Graham Bell: A Life," which was published this spring by John Wiley & Sons in the United States.
Designed in the style of a Georgian town church by the transported convict architect Francis Greenway during the governorship of Lachlan Macquarie, St James' is part of the historical precinct of Macquarie Street which includes other early colonial era buildings such as the Hyde Park Barracks.
Murders in the precinct's historical boundaries have nearly doubled this year to nine, more than the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville or East New York.
Most of Roberts's alterers seem to remain awkwardly conscious of trespassing on precincts better suited to historical novelists.
Its analysts are the first to compare actual raw votes with exit poll data, to compare early votes with historical demographic and party trends in precincts, and otherwise perform reality checks on the numbers.
The manly adventures of Cyrus Barker and his youthful apprentice, Thomas Llewelyn, are set in the seediest precincts of London and delve into the most unsavory of historical material — from inflammatory anti-Semitism in "Some Danger Involved" to bomb-throwing Irish anarchists in "To Kingdom Come".
Along the quieter blocks of the precinct, handsome colonial structures are now museums and government buildings, themselves historical landmarks.
We also intuitively understood congregational routine, authoritative interpretation of sacred literature, the prestige of historical continuity we understood that messiahs matter in this world, that the divine emerged within the precincts of a discipline, commandments, and the mass, all of which produced decorum before they produced grace.
