 | Thomas Johnson (of Blackburn.) - 1885 - Страниц: 198
...foundation dates from 1106. We believe it was Defoe, in his Satire, the True-bom Englishman, who said, — Wherever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there. Whether he meant by " chapel " to insinuate a public-house, we have no means of knowing ; but, oddly... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - Страниц: 1134
...shows the ability of its author to reason forcibly in rhyme. The opening lines are characteristic: & ihcrc; And 'twill be found upon examination. The latter has the largest congregation.' The Shortest... | |
 | Conyngham Crawford Taylor - 1886 - Страниц: 402
...of the mosquito, which is just beginning to ply its proboscis elsewhere. Toronto a Oity of Churches. Wherever God erects a, house of prayer, The devil...'twill be found upon examination The latter has the larger congregation. — Daniel Defoe. If this celebrated man, the father Or founder of the English... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1886 - Страниц: 396
...masculine expressions and happy terms of thought not unworthy of the author of Absalom and Ahithophel, though, upon the whole, his style seems rather to have been formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the older satirists.' Landor truly characterises Defoe as ' the most farsighted of our statesmen, and the... | |
 | George Augustus Sala - 1886 - Страниц: 438
...wigwam like two unearthly eyes. Close to the church was a public gaming-house, to justify Defoe's " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." It was contemptuously tolerated by the French, on condition that no soldier of their nation should... | |
 | Conyngham Crawford Taylor - 1887 - Страниц: 446
...the mosquito, which is just beginning to ply its proboscis elsewhere. . Toronto' a City of Churches. Wherever God •erects a house of prayer, The devil...'twill be found upon examination The latter has the larger congregation. — Daniel Defoe. If this celebrated man, the father or founder of the English... | |
 | Josiah Wright Matthews, Eric Rosenthal - 1887 - Страниц: 568
...party-walls, which separated us from the adjoining bar and its half tipsy occupants. Defoe's lines : " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." had here a liberal interpretation indeed—although I am not sure that they were strictly applicable... | |
 | Conyngham Crawford Taylor - 1888 - Страниц: 580
...is just beginning to ply its proboscis elsewhere. Toronto a City of Churches. Wherever God erects & house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel...'twill be found upon examination The latter has the larger congregation. —Daniel Defoe. If this celebrated man, the father or founder of the English... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1888 - Страниц: 332
...palaces, and mixing with their crowd of squalid, drunken customers. Thus is exemplified the truth : "Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." The Royal Palace has its disgusting back-ground of reeking sinks, slums and hovels in Pimlico. The... | |
 | 1889 - Страниц: 934
...a temple, the Devil will have a chapel, t. BUBTON — Anatomy of Melancholy. Pt. in. So. 4Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. u. DEFOE — The Trueborn Jtiiglishman. Line 1God never had a church but there men say, The devil a... | |
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