 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 - 1869 - 488 sidor
...hell : Speak, Satire, for there's none like thee can tell. VOL. v. 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... | |
 | 1869 - 330 sidor
...chiefly manifested by an unreasoning antipathy to foreigners. The opening lines are frequently quoted :" Wherever God erects a. house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill he found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." Couplets not less terse... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1869 - 252 sidor
...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... | |
 | Albert Deane Richardson - 1869 - 664 sidor
...Was there a Missouri steamer pictured in the prophetic soul of old Daniel Defoe when he wrote, — '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 passengers exhibit... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 sidor
...very familiar proverb was current among his countrymen, vj2. : Necessitatem in virtutem commutare. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. DE FOE. The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Lit:e t. God never had a church but there,, men say The devil... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 256 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 322 sidor
...manifested by an unrea. soning antipathy to foreigners. The opening lines are frequently quoted : — t " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill !je found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." Couplets not less terse... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 362 sidor
...Defoe, who is erroneously sup. to have originated the sentiment, reproduced it in the couplet, — ' Wherever God erects a House of Prayer The devil always builds a chapel there.' VOL. II. I! pious visitor of the temple might enter at any hour of the day for prayer and edifying... | |
 | 1873 - 828 sidor
...tad gown, and giving a profound lecture on Theology. Defoe (The True-Born English*») wrote : — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; Ami 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." Tne new religion... | |
 | 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... | |
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