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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. "
Notes and Queries - Strona 379
1868
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Chronicles and Stories of the Craven Dales

James Henry Dixon - 1881 - Liczba stron: 498
...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...
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Poetic treasures: or, Passages from the poets

Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - Liczba stron: 746
...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...
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A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets

Henry George Bohn - 1881 - Liczba stron: 738
...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...
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The Cyclopædia of Practical Quotations: English and Latin, with an Appendix ...

1882 - Liczba stron: 1434
...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...
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The voice of wisdom, a treasury of moral truths from the best authors ...

Voice, J. E. - 1883 - Liczba stron: 212
...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...
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Development of English Literature and Language, Tom 2

Alfred Hix Welsh - 1883 - Liczba stron: 586
...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...
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Intemperance and Crime: Leaves from the Diary of an Old Lawyer ; Chancellor ...

Almon Benson Richmond - 1883 - Liczba stron: 658
...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...
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Heath Readings in the Literature of England

Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - Liczba stron: 1432
...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...
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Littell's Living Age, Tom 29

1851 - Liczba stron: 648
..." 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...
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A Literary History of England

Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - Liczba stron: 490
...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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