 | Treasury - 1869 - Страниц: 474
...very familiar proverb was current among his countrymen, vj2. : Necessitatem in virtutem commutare. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. DE FOE. The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Lit:e t. God never had a church but there,, men say The devil... | |
 | 1870 - Страниц: 322
...manifested by an unrea. soning antipathy to foreigners. The opening lines are frequently quoted : — t " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill !je found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." Couplets not less terse and... | |
 | 1873 - Страниц: 828
...tad gown, and giving a profound lecture on Theology. Defoe (The True-Born English*») wrote : — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; Ami 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." Tne new religion... | |
 | John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1870 - Страниц: 362
...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... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1871 - Страниц: 670
...masculine expressions and happy turns of thought not unworthy of the author of Absalom and Achitiyhel, though, upon the whole, his style seems rather to have been formed on that of Hail, Oldham, and the elder satirists." — Sir Waller Scott, "Biographies: Daniel De Foe "(edit. 1847)... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1874 - Страниц: 332
...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 - Страниц: 414
...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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - Страниц: 798
...Dryden, The Spanish Friar, Act ii. Sc. I. 240 Defoe. — Bentley. — Brown. DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-173i. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; 1 And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The True-Born... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - 1875 - Страниц: 558
...In the opening of his " Trueborn Englishman" are these four lines of the church and the theatre: " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation." To many, perhaps, will be more pleasing the lines of Hannah More, a lady who... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - Страниц: 890
...Douglas, iii. I. Ipsa quidem Virtus sibimet pulchemma merces. Silius Italicus, Punica, Lib. xiii. /. 663. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. De Foe, The True-born Englishman, PI. i. /. i. God never had a church but there, men say, The devil... | |
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