 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
 | John Leaf - 1861 - 502 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 has the largest congregation." The object of the satire... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 258 pagina’s
...goes some way to suppress it in its own time, and perhaps lives for it in history."1 Defoe says, — "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." The proverb is found in... | |
 | James C. Street, Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - 1862 - 558 pagina’s
...around. It is very near the cathedral, and is always so crowded as to remind one of the satire — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the larger congregation. On several occasions we saw... | |
 | 1856 - 502 pagina’s
...a classic. The opening lines will recur to every one, yet we may be excused for citing them : — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." Yet the versification... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pagina’s
...very familiar proverb was current among his countrymen, viz. : Necessitatem in virtutem commutare. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. DR FOE. The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1. God never had a church but there, men say The devil... | |
 | John Wilson - 1865 - 444 pagina’s
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the most sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 746 pagina’s
...Republic are destroyed, it will be by Romish priests." (Lafayette.) 27. "Ubi tres ibi Ecclesia." 28. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." (De Foe.) 29. "0 fortunati, minium, sua si bona norint." ( Virgil.) 30. "Here lies he who never feared... | |
 | Philip Lindsley - 1866 - 742 pagina’s
...Republic are destroyed, it will be by Romish priests." (Lafayette.} 27. "Ubi tres ibi Ecclesia." 28. "Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." (De Foe.} 29. "0 fortunati, nimium, sua si bona norint." ( Virgil.} 30. "Here lies he who never feared... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 pagina’s
...restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall ; Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil -always builds a chapel there : And 't will be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. Defoe, TB Eng. i. \ . CHABACTEB... | |
 | 1868 - 850 pagina’s
...days when Pope and Uryden were our lawgivers. It is often really vigorous. The well-known verses, — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there, — which begin the True-born Englishman, or the rually fine lines which occur in the Hymn to the Pillory,... | |
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