...the wigwam like two unearthly eyes. Close to the chureh was a public gaminghouse, to justify Defoe's Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there. It was contemptuously tolerated by the French, on condition that no soldier of their nation should...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...