 | Walter Scott - 1834
...formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the elder satirists. The first verses are well known :— " 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 author's first... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834
...formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the elder satirists. The first verses are well known :— " 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 author's first... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1835
...should pretend ffj Tq1birtni'an,d blood, and for a name contend. THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN. 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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1836 - 39 halaman
...PART I. WHEREVER God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always huilds a chapel there : And 'twill he found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation, For ever since he first debauch 'd the mind, He made a perfect conquest of mankind. With uniformity of service, he Reigns with... | |
 | 1838 - 190 halaman
...departed wife a tolerable decent burial, in the same grave with his own mother. CHAPTER IV. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." " Entreat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity." Wesley's Sermon on... | |
 | Francis Glasse - 1838
...departed wife a tolerable decent burial, in the same grave 'with his own mother. CHAPTER IV. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." " Entreat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity." Wesley's Sermon on... | |
 | 1839
...believe, any nation in the world can parallel in such a time, and in such circumstances." " 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 " True-born Englishman"... | |
 | 1875
...popular satire, The True-Born Englishman, the first lines of which were as follows : — " 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." Although Daniel Defoe... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841
...hell : Speak, Satire, for there's none like thee can tell. 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... | |
 | 1845
...things of a merely temporary interest have ever equalled its success. Its first two lines — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there' — are all that can be said to have survived, of couplets that were then shouted from street to street.... | |
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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. 
