 | 1845 - 718 halaman
...a merely temporary interest have ever equalled its success. Its first two lines — ' Wherever Gorl 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... | |
 | 1847 - 178 halaman
...superior mercy to the latter. DeFoe is said to be the author of the following singular verse : Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there, And it will be found on examination, The latter has the larger congregation.' DeFoe wrote two hundred... | |
 | 1925 - 996 halaman
...species of rock rose, and several kinds of lilies. LEONARD C. PRICE. INES OF DEFOE. — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." The same ide» is found (in prose) in Burton's 'Anatomy of Melancholy ' (1621. Can any reader inform... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 halaman
...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 halaman
...often been quoted:— 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. Various political tracts rapidly followed this satire. In 1702, the author wrote an ironical treatise... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 halaman
...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... | |
 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 496 halaman
...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 halaman
...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,... | |
 | Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 halaman
...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... | |
 | Pharcellus Church - 1853 - 472 halaman
...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,... | |
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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. 
