...as a writer in Chambers' " Cyclopaedia of English Literature" quotes them, were the following : — 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. As anything and everything...

...Advertiser, the organ of the publicans, does to the Times. The strange opening is well known : — 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. This must be understood...

...Advertiser, the organ of the publicans, does to the Times. The strange opening is well known : — 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. This must be understood...

...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, too,...

...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. Double...

...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,...

...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...

...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 builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the larger congregation." To many, perhaps, will be...

...superstition. " When we would do good, evil is present with us." And it is, as it was in Defoe's day — " 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." Our spirits possess a...

...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...