 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 - Sida 3791868Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Daniel Defoe - 1835 - 20 sidor
...all men, 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 first... | |
 | 1838 - 204 sidor
...give his 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 - 200 sidor
...his 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 - 444 sidor
...than, I 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"... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - 406 sidor
...original from 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 first... | |
 | 1876 - 516 sidor
...flamed, in letters of light, the inscription, " God is love," it only served to remind me that — " 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." Returning home by the... | |
 | 1845 - 562 sidor
...few 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... | |
 | 1845 - 608 sidor
...few 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.... | |
 | 1845 - 718 sidor
...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 sidor
...palm of 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 and... | |
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