Croce's definition of imaginative literature excludes ideas, except as casually introduced, or as the utterances in accordance with the truth of the character portrayed.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
They are not subject to the general rule which excludes from the House of Commons all office-holders who are not ministers.
"The Government of England (Vol. I)"
A. Lawrence Lowell
It is not on this account that any one complains of the Buenos Ayrean Government, but because it confines foreign commerce to the single port of Buenos Ayres, and excludes both foreigners and foreign vessels from the other ports of the Confederation, as strictly as the Chinese formerly excluded them from every port except Canton.
"Observations on the Present State of the Affairs of the River Plate"
Thomas Baines