 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - Страниц: 428
...command of homely and forcible language. The opening lines of this satire have often been quoted : Wherever God erects a house of prayer. The devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. Various political tracts followed from the active pen of our anthor. In 1702, he wrote an ironical... | |
 | John Guard - 1879 - Страниц: 476
...Employed when most men sleep : What few would wish to give away, And none would wish to keep. Ans. Bed. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination The latter has the largest congregation. These well-known lines so often quoted, are by De Foe (the author of Robinson Crusoe), but few probably... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1879 - Страниц: 298
...[compared 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,... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - Страниц: 182
...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...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters (1702), a work wherein he, 'himself a Dissenter, ironically recommends... | |
 | James Miller - 1880 - Страниц: 334
...first she leads him gently, in dance, and gaiety, and enjoyment; their way is among flowers, and * " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." And the devotion he most favors is that at the shrine of the publican t Speech in Free General Assembjy,... | |
 | William Andrews - 1880 - Страниц: 342
...in the world," and perhaps the most infinitesimal. It was Daniel Defoe, I think, who observed that Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there. Here is a remarkable exemplification of the truth of the apothegm. Dale Church is sacred and secular.... | |
 | Passages, John Allen Giles - 1881 - Страниц: 744
...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...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The Muae, disgusted at an age and clime Barren of every glorious theme, In distant lands now waits... | |
 | James Henry Dixon - 1881 - Страниц: 496
...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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - Страниц: 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... | |
 | Henry Ezekiel Jackson - 1922 - Страниц: 332
...thousand pounds by its sale. But the verse was not of a high order. It began with the well-known lines : 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. Defoe was the first rhymer... | |
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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... 
