 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - 362 стор.
...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... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 478 стор.
...as a writer in Chambers' " Cyclopaedia of English Literature" quotes them, were the following : — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. As anything and everything relating j;o so remarkable a man as Defoe must be interesting, not only... | |
 | James Grant - 1871 - 478 стор.
...as a writer in Chambers' " Cyclopaedia of English Literature" quotes them, were the following : — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. As anything and everything relating to so remarkable a man as Defoe must be interesting, not only to... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1871 - 670 стор.
...blood. Tho first four lines have become familiar as household words— " Wherever God erects a honse of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there...And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter baa the largest congregation." But the satire itself has now fallen into oblivion, simply because,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 стор.
...relation as the Morning Advertiser, the organ of the publicans, does to the Times. The strange opening is well known : — Wherever God erects a house of prayer,...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. This must be understood as ironical ; for Defoe was himself a Dissenter. Thomas Tickell resided for... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 стор.
...relation as the Morning Advertiser, the organ of the publicans, does to the Times. The strange opening is well known : — Wherever God erects a house of prayer,...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. This must be understood as ironical ; for Defoe was himself a Dissenter. Thomas Tickell resided for... | |
 | George W. Pine - 1873 - 534 стор.
...pile/' no matter how ruled the day. " Wherever God erects a house oi prayer The devil always holds a chapel there, And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The people here are very much mixed. All the States, and every important place in them are represented,... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 стор.
...with that of Hooker]." — Fuller. " Of two usances the merriest was put down." — Shakespeare. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation." — Defoe.* 16. Double comparatives and superlatives, such as more wiser, most wisest, formerly common,... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - 332 стор.
...couplets, or lines, the homely and practical muse of De Foe is now alone remembered. Such are — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; ' and the noble — ' It's personal virtue only makes us great,' in the True-lorn Englishman. In Newgate,... | |
 | 1874 - 414 стор.
...with two lines which appear in Charles Aleyn's remarkable poem of Henry the Seventh, 1638, (p. 136): " Wherever God erects a house of prayer The Devil always builds a chapel there." And in George Herbert's "Jacula Prudentum " the same thought occurs: "No sooner is a temple built ta God,... | |
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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. 
