 | Walter Scott - 1834 - Liczba stron: 452
...been formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the elder satirists. The first verses are well known :— " Wherever God erects a House of prayer. The Devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The author's first publication after The Truelorn Englishman was, TJie original Power of the Collective... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1835 - Liczba stron: 20
...all men, should pretend ffj Tq1birtni'an,d blood, and for a name contend. THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN. WHEREVER God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation ; For ever since he first debauched the mind, He made a perfect conquest of mankind. With uniformity... | |
 | 1838 - Liczba stron: 204
...give his departed wife a tolerable decent burial, in the same grave with his own mother. CHAPTER IV. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." " Entreat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity." Wesley's Sermon on... | |
 | Francis Glasse - 1838 - Liczba stron: 200
...his departed wife a tolerable decent burial, in the same grave 'with his own mother. CHAPTER IV. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." " Entreat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity." Wesley's Sermon on... | |
 | 1839 - Liczba stron: 444
...than, I believe, any nation in the world can parallel in such a time, and in such circumstances." " Wherever God erects a house of prayer. The devil always...examination The latter has the largest congregation." The " True-born Englishman" was caused by an attack upon King William, in which his faults were summed... | |
 | 1875 - Liczba stron: 492
...written his popular satire, The True-Born Englishman, the first lines of which were as follows : — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination The latter has the largest congregation." Although Daniel Defoe published two hundred and ten works, and some of them had a great sale, he died... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, George Chalmers - 1841 - Liczba stron: 406
...original from hell : Speak, Satire, for there's none like thee can tell. 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... | |
 | 1876 - Liczba stron: 516
...flamed, in letters of light, the inscription, " God is love," it only served to remind me that — " Wherever 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." Returning home by the... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1843 - Liczba stron: 456
...been formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the elder satirists. The first verses are well known : — " Wherever God erects a House of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; And *tw'il be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The author's first publication... | |
 | 1845 - Liczba stron: 562
...few things of a merely temporary interest have ever equalled its success. Its first two lines — ' Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ' — are all that can be said to have survived, of couplets that were then shouted from street to... | |
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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. 
