Saith not Camero, 854 cum Pharisæorum præcipua esset authoritas ( ut ubique docet Josephus )? &c. Doth not Josephus speak so much of their authority, that in one place he saith, 855 Nomen igitur regni, erat penes reginam (Alexandram) penes Pharisæos vero administratio ?
— from The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie

The humiliating spectacle which the positive religions, both Catholic and Reformed, presented at that time—the hatreds, the civil wars, the assassinations which they instigated—had disgusted men of noble mould, and had turned them against these so-called religions; so that in Naples, in Tuscany, in Venice, in Switzerland, France, and England, there were to be found societies of philosophers, of free-thinkers, and politicians, who repudiated every positive religion and professed a pure Theism.
— from The Heroic Enthusiasts (Gli Eroici Furori) Part the First An Ethical Poem by Giordano Bruno

Factus ergo adolescentior, fastidiens parentum meorum exiguitatem, paternos lares relinquere, et palatia regum aut principum affectans, mollibus vestiri, pomposisque lacinijs amiciri indies ardentius appetebam.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt