 | William Warland Clapp - 1853 - Страниц: 496
...shrewdness must be exhibited in procuring the lease, lest they might think that De Foe's couplet, " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there," was about to have a permanent realization. They were at first opposed to leasing it, on any account,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - Страниц: 660
...ii. Sc. 1. Pity 's akin to love. DANIEL DEFOE. 1661-1731. The True-Born Englishman. Part i. .Line 1. 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. LOUIS THEOBALD. 1744. The... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - Страниц: 432
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the most sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - Страниц: 416
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the njost sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | John Wilson - 1856 - Страниц: 412
...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the most sober and industrious of God's... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - Страниц: 608
...homely and forcible language. The following opening lines of the satire have often been quoted: — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...there; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter baa the largest congregation. Various political tracts rapidly followed this satire. In 1 702, the... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1858 - Страниц: 426
...poem will usually show whether it is worth reading. The two first of " The True-born Englishman," are Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. Let the reader continue, — or rather, with the poem before him, let him discontinue reading it if... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1868 - Страниц: 796
...when Pope and Dryden 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 really fine lines which occur in the Hymn to the Pillory,... | |
 | James Miller - 1861 - Страниц: 266
...around him, will scarce let go their hold. At first she leads him gently, in dance, and gaiety, * " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." And the devotion he most favours is that at the shrine of the publican. t Speech in Free General Assembly,... | |
 | James C. Street, Frederic Richard Lees, Dawson Burns - 1862 - Страниц: 558
...around. It is very near the cathedral, and is always so crowded as to remind one of the satire — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...'twill be found upon examination The latter has the larger congregation. On several occasions we saw considerably more than 100 persons huddled together,... | |
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