...! Speak, Satyr ! for there 's none like thee, can tell. The True Born Englishman. PART I. |HEREVER 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. For ever since he...

...[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 builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." — Defoe.* 16....

...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 builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. Various political...

...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 builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination The latter has the largest congregation. These well-known lines...

...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 builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The Shortest Way with...

...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....

...are spared ; and who am I, to repine? The Onat /','...:-- >» The True-Born Englishman. A Satire.* 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 : For ever since he...

...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,...

...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 builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The Muae, disgusted...

...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...