At the same time Admiral von Scheer had probably reckoned on being able to avoid battle with the Grand Fleet by means of a swift retreat under cover of smoke screens and torpedo attacks.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

AND ÆSTHETIC Relation between desires and actions; and two problems of Historic and Æsthetic—History and art—The concept of existentiality in history—Its origin in the Philosophy of the practical: action and the existing, desires and the non-existent—History as distinction between actions and desires, and art as indistinction—Pure fancy and imagination—Art as lyrical or representation of feelings—Identity of ingenuous reality and feeling—Artists and the will—Actions and myths—Art as pure representation of becoming, and the artistic form of thought.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

Art as the pure representation of becoming and the artistic form of thought.
— from The Philosophy of the Practical: Economic and Ethic by Benedetto Croce

Great weight was attached to popular report or belief, and to ascertain this the opinion of the witness was freely received, whether based on knowledge or prejudice, hearsay evidence, vague rumors, general impressions, or idle gossip.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea