All the plans and hopes of Satsuma tended to the benefit of the country, and not to a revolution against the Shôgun.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

The church at Jerusalem was the mother church, and not that at Rome, as some falsely imagine; for from this church went out the law and the holy word of God to the Gentiles.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

We know you would not think of going to church in masquerade—of reading certain lines and making certain responses as a bit of Sabbath ceremony, as necessary to a respectable appearance as a Sabbath shaving.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete by Various