 Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.  Notes and Queries - Pagina 3791868Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pagina’s
...homely and forcible language. The following opening lines of the satire have often been quoted : — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination, The I. iiter has the largest congregation. Various political tracts... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pagina’s
...work was a satire called the " True-born Englishman," beginning with the often quoted lines, — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." He was much in favour with... | |
 | Pharcellus Church - 1853 - 472 pagina’s
...but the vent and occasions of temptation. CHAPTER VI. THE OUTPOSTS OF THE ENEMY AT LENGTH APPEAR. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there; And "t will he found, upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation." — DEFOE. BY an accident,... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pagina’s
...confess I do not understand him."* The following h'nes may serve as a specimen of the work itself. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation, For ever since he first... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 496 pagina’s
...shrewdness must be exhibited in procuring the lease, lest they might think that De Foe's couplet, " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there," was about to have a permanent realization. They were at first opposed to leasing it, on any account,... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 512 pagina’s
...shrewdness must be exhibited in procuring the lease, lest they might think that De Foe's couplet, " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there," was about to have a permanent realization. They were at first opposed to leasing it, on any account,... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 508 pagina’s
...shrewdness must be exhibited in procuring the lease, lest they might think that De Foe's couplet, " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there," was about to have a permanent realization. They were at first opposed to leasing it, on any account,... | |
 | William Chambers - 1854 - 596 pagina’s
...' True-born Englishman.' It opens with the memorable lines, which have since become a proverb — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter haa the largest congregation.' The object of the satire... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 502 pagina’s
...hell: Speak, Satire, for there's none like thee can tell. VOL. v. THE TRUE.BORN ENGLISHMAN. PART I. WHEREVER God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there : And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since he first... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 pagina’s
...: Speak, Satire, for there's none like thee can tell. VOL. v. F r THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN. PART I. WHEREVER God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there : And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since he first... | |
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