That was the great maxim by virtue of which we were asked, if not to refrain from conceiving nature at all, which was perhaps impossible at so late a stage in human development, at least to refrain from regarding our necessary thoughts on nature as true or rational.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

And Wee straitly charge and Command all Our Customers, Comptrollers, Searchers, and all other the Officers and Ministers of Our Ports, that they and every of them in their severall places, doe carefully and faithfully observe Our Royal Command, in, and concerning the premisses; and if any of them shall be found remisse or negligent therein, or to connive at any such offender, that hee or they shall for such their fault, without any remission be remooved from the place or places of his or their attendance on Our service.
— from British Royal Proclamations Relating to America, 1603-1783 by Great Britain. Sovereign