...goes some way to suppress it in its own time, and perhaps lives for it in history."1 Defoe says, — "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 proverb is found in...

...around. It is very near the cathedral, and is always so crowded as to remind one of the 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 larger congregation. On several occasions we saw...

...a classic. The opening lines will recur to every one, yet we may be excused for citing them : — " 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." Yet the versification...

...very familiar proverb was current among his countrymen, viz. : Necessitatem in virtutem commutare. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there. DR FOE. The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1. God never had a church but there, men say The devil...

...on its own heart." Surely the winner will have the sense to order dinner at the Chapel Alehouse. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there." " In this " — quoth Mr Green, who, you know, Jonathan, was the most sober and industrious of God's...

...Republic are destroyed, it will be by Romish priests." (Lafayette.) 27. "Ubi tres ibi Ecclesia." 28. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." (De Foe.) 29. "0 fortunati, minium, sua si bona norint." ( Virgil.) 30. "Here lies he who never feared...

...Republic are destroyed, it will be by Romish priests." (Lafayette.} 27. "Ubi tres ibi Ecclesia." 28. "Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." (De Foe.} 29. "0 fortunati, nimium, sua si bona norint." ( Virgil.} 30. "Here lies he who never feared...

...restored ; Light dies before thy uncreating word : Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall ; 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. Defoe, TB Eng. i. \ . CHABACTEB...

...days when Pope and Uryden were our lawgivers. It is often really vigorous. The well-known verses, — Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there, — which begin the True-born Englishman, or the rually fine lines which occur in the Hymn to the Pillory,...

...the wigwam like two unearthly eyes. Close to the chureh was a public gaminghouse, 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...