| 1868 - 850 стор.
...days when Pope and Uryden 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 rually fine lines which occur in the Hymn to the Pillory,... | |
| 1868 - 608 стор.
...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... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - 1869 - 252 стор.
...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...examination The latter has the largest congregation." The proverb is found in nearly the same form in Italian.2 The French say, " The devil chants high mass,"... | |
| Albert Deane Richardson - 1869 - 664 стор.
...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...examination, The latter has the largest congregation ?' Our passengers exhibit life in every phase. Here are young men and young married couples from eastern... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1869 - 488 стор.
...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...examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since he first debauch'd the mind, He made a perfect conquest of mankind. "With uniformity... | |
| 1869 - 330 стор.
...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 and sententious... | |
| Treasury - 1869 - 474 стор.
...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... | |
| Walter Keating Kelly - 1861 - 256 стор.
...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...examination The latter has the largest congregation." The proverb is found in nearly the same form in Italian.2 The French say, " The devil chants high mass,"3... | |
| 1870 - 322 стор.
...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 and... | |
| 1873 - 828 стор.
...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... | |
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