| Daniel Defoe, Howard Maynadier - 1904 - Страниц: 326
...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 builds a chapel there :^) And 't will be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since he first... | |
| John F. Jordin - 1904 - Страниц: 216
...of whiskey. It was probably some such an arrangement as this that prompted Defoe to declare that : "Wherever God erects a house of prayer The Devil always builds a chapel there." The devil's chapel was well patronized and soon one of the goats wandered over among the lambs where... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1904 - Страниц: 342
...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 builds a chapel there:1 And 't will be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since... | |
| Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - Страниц: 770
...sold on the streets of London. What it lacks in poetry it makes up in homely vigor. The opening lines are well known: — " Wherever God erects a house...chapel there; 'And 'twill be found upon examination, KV\The latter has the largest congregation." V 184. " Robinson 'Crusoe." — Defoe's " Robinson Crusoe... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1905 - Страниц: 332
...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 builds a chapel there:1 And 't will be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since... | |
| Lilian M. Heath - 1905 - Страниц: 410
...the ideals for which the churches are fighting. Little wonder the Puritan reads Defoe's distich as, " 'Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a theatre there.' "It is indeed somewhat perplexing to consider that both churches hod theatres cater... | |
| 1906 - Страниц: 810
...Holy Pedlar, st, 5 He will give the devil his due, SHAKEsPEAEE, King Henty IV, Part I, i, ' 1Wherever 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, DANIEL DEFOE. The True-born... | |
| Samuel A'Court Ashe - 1906 - Страниц: 810
...men" formed the population of our Colony, and that even the Church was not free from evil influence. "Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." Marshall De Lancey Ha\n.<ood. WILLIAM HAINES WAKEFIELD O some men the paths they are to follow through... | |
| Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - Страниц: 524
...retorted in The True-born Englishman, a satire, dated January, 1701, and opening with the famous lines: Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. In a preface, which is a model of clear and forcible writing, Defoe disclaims metrical correctness... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1908 - Страниц: 340
...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 builds a chapel there:1 And 't will be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation : For ever since... | |
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