 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - 508 páginas
...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 Chambers - 1854 - 596 páginas
...' True-born Englishman.' It opens with the memorable lines, which have since become a proverb — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter haa the largest congregation.' The object of the satire... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 502 páginas
...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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1855 - 488 páginas
...: Speak, Satire, for there's none like thee can tell. VOL. v. F r 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 páginas
...ii. Sc. 1. Pity 's akin to love. DANIEL DEFOE. 1661-1731. The True-Born Englishman. Part i. .Line 1. 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. LOUIS THEOBALD. 1744. The... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 412 páginas
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the most sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 432 páginas
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the most sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - 416 páginas
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the njost sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | Henry Augustus Wise - 1857 - 374 páginas
...never knew an eastern Jew to broach that topic within the threshold of his mansion. Chapter XXXV. " 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." Dancing Dervishes. ONE... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 páginas
...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 latter baa the largest congregation. Various political tracts... | |
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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. 
