...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...

...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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...homely and 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 tracts...

...work was 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 with...

...but the 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,...

...confess I 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 first...

...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,...

...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,...