 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 608 стор.
...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... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - 426 стор.
...usually show whether it is worth reading. The two first of " The True-born Englishman," are Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. Let the reader continue,— or rather, -with the poem before him, let him discontinue reading it if... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1859 - 636 стор.
...True-bom 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 has the largest congregation.' The object of the... | |
 | William Chambers - 1859 - 600 стор.
...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 has the largest congregation.' The object of the satire is to reproach the author's discontented countrymen with ingratitude for abusing... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - 796 стор.
...Pope and Dryden were our lawgivers. It is often really vigorous. The well-known verses, — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there, — which begin the True-Born Englishman, or the really fine lines which occur in the Hymn to the Pillory,... | |
 | Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 258 стор.
...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... | |
 | James Miller - 1861 - 266 стор.
...him, will scarce let go their hold. At first she leads him gently, in dance, and gaiety, * " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." And the devotion he most favours is that at the shrine of the publican. t Speech in Free General Assembly,... | |
 | John Leaf - 1861 - 500 стор.
...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 has the largest congregation." The object of the... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele, Joseph Addison - 1861 - 368 стор.
...his satire : — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The D — 1 always builds a chapel there : And 'twill be found, upon examination. The latter has the largest congregation." He then proceeds to trace " the different nations of which we are composed," to shew the ill grace... | |
 | James C. Street, Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - 1862 - 558 стор.
...It is very near the cathedral, and is always so crowded as to remind one of the satire — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the larger congregation. On several occasions we... | |
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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. 
