 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
 | James Grant - 1871 - 478 sidor
...as a writer in Chambers' " Cyclopaedia of English Literature" quotes them, were the following : — 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. As anything and everything... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 sidor
...Advertiser, the organ of the publicans, does to the Times. The strange opening is 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. This must be understood... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 sidor
...Advertiser, the organ of the publicans, does to the Times. The strange opening is 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. This must be understood... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 sidor
...couplets, or lines, the homely and practical muse of De Foe is now alone remembered. Such are — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; ' and the noble — ' It's personal virtue only makes us great,' in the True-lorn Englishman. In Newgate, too,... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 sidor
...with that of Hooker]." — Fuller. " Of two usances the merriest was put down." — Shakespeare. " 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." — Defoe.* 16. Double... | |
 | 1874 - 414 sidor
...with two lines which appear in Charles Aleyn's remarkable poem of Henry the Seventh, 1638, (p. 136): " Wherever God erects a house of prayer The Devil always builds a chapel there." And in George Herbert's "Jacula Prudentum " the same thought occurs: "No sooner is a temple built ta God,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 sidor
...Dryden, The Spanish Friar, Act ii. Sc. I. 240 Defoe. — Bentley. — Brown. DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-173i. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 1 And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The True-Born... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - 558 sidor
...In the opening of his " Trueborn Englishman" are these four lines of the church and the theatre: " 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." To many, perhaps, will be... | |
 | 1875 - 400 sidor
...superstition. " When we would do good, evil is present with us." And it is, as it was in Defoe's day — " 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." Our spirits possess a... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sidor
...Douglas, iii. I. Ipsa quidem Virtus sibimet pulchemma merces. Silius Italicus, Punica, Lib. xiii. /. 663. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. De Foe, The True-born Englishman, PI. i. /. i. God never had a church but there, men say, The devil... | |
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