 | Walter Wilson - 1808 - 652 trang
...lines written by the celebrated Daniel DeFoe: Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil alwaj-s builds a chapel there, And 'twill be found, upon examination,...The latter has the largest congregation.* • The True Born Englishman : A latire. ALDFHMAR'HrRY. ALDERMANBURY. ./XLDERM ANBURY, situated at the north-west... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1809 - 646 trang
...Haldane, very forcibly brings to our recollection some lines written by the celebrated Daniel De Foe; , Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always...The latter has the largest congregation.' • The True Bern Englishman : A satire. ALPE'-MAMBURY. ALDERMANBURY. ./ALDERMANBURY, situated at the north-west... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1827 - 506 trang
...have been formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the elder satirists. The first verses are well known : Wherever God erects a House of prayer, The Devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The author's first publication after The Trueborn Englishman was, The original Power of the Collective... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 562 trang
...have passed into a proverb : • True-Born Englishman. Preface. t t Explanatory Pref. Works, vol. i. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The object of the satire is to reproach his countrymen with ingratitude for abusing King William as a foreigner... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 566 trang
...greater than they can pretend to."f The poem opens with some lines which have passed into a proverb: " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The object of the satire is to reproach his countrymen with ingratitude for abusing King William as a foreigner;... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 556 trang
...poem opens with some lines which have passed into a proverb : " Wherever God erects a house of prayeY, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill...examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The object of the satire is to reproach his countrymen with ingratitude for abusing King William as a foreigner... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1834 - 452 trang
...been formed on that of Hall, Oldham, and the elder satirists. The first verses are well known :— " Wherever God erects a House of prayer. The Devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The author's first publication after The Truelorn Englishman was, TJie original Power of the Collective... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1835 - 20 trang
...all men, should pretend ffj Tq1birtni'an,d blood, and for a name contend. THE TRUE-BORN ENGLISHMAN. WHEREVER God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination, The latter has the largest congregation ; For ever since he first debauched the mind, He made a perfect conquest of mankind. With uniformity... | |
 | 1839 - 444 trang
...than, I believe, any nation in the world can parallel in such a time, and in such circumstances." " Wherever God erects a house of prayer. The devil always...examination The latter has the largest congregation." The " True-born Englishman" was caused by an attack upon King William, in which his faults were summed... | |
 | 1875 - 492 trang
...written his popular satire, The True-Born Englishman, the first lines of which were as follows : — " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always...examination The latter has the largest congregation." Although Daniel Defoe published two hundred and ten works, and some of them had a great sale, he died... | |
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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. 
