 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 - Page 3791868Full view - About this book
 | James Henry Dixon - Craven (England) - 1881 - 498 pages
...individual. "The inn of Kirkby Malhamdale stood in the churchyard, and was an exemplification of the lines of Defoe — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there.' Nay, perhaps we might carry our commentary still further, and find truth in the stanzas which follow... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - English poetry - 1881 - 744 pages
...In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold, Alike fantastic, if too new or old. CXXVIII. DANIEL DEFOE. 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 Muae, disgusted at an... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1881 - 738 pages
...dies before thy unereating word : Thy hand, great Anareh, lets the curtain fall ; CHAPEL. AVLerever 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. Defoe, TB Enj. i. 1 CHARACTEE... | |
 | Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel. ( BUETON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. III. Sc. 4. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. u. DEFOE— The Trueborn Englishman. Line 1. 58 CHURCH, THE. CITIES. God never had a church but there... | |
 | Voice, J. E. - 1883 - 212 pages
...superstition, to set up idolatry, to teach all kinds of Popery. — Latimer. Satan and house of God. 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. Saviour, neglect... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1883 - 586 pages
...shows the ability of its author to reason forcibly in rhyme. The opening lines are characteristic: ' 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 Shortest Way with the... | |
 | Almon Benson Richmond - Alcoholism and crime - 1883 - 658 pages
...them with curses and profanity. What Defoe wrote nearly two hundred years ago is true to-day, that "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." To the influence of the... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...double portion of his father's art. 1682 Saniel 39efoe (16607-1731) THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN / PART I But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. Yet still, even here, content can spr 't will be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since he first... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 648 pages
..." True-born Englishman." It opens with the memorable lines, which havе since become a proverb — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'I will be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation. The object of the satire... | |
 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...such subjects as disliked the King's Dutch origin or Dutch advisers. He begins briskly — Where-ever 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. And he concludes in a rugged... | |
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