| 1801 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...shall arrive there first. The alehouse near the kirk (which is never wanting, for " Where'er the Lord erects a house of prayer, " The Devil always builds a chapel there," receives the joyful guests, who cheer their spirits with a hearty glass- before the performance of... | |
| William Green (of Ambleside.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...Seathwaite chapel. An ale house near a chapel generally brings to the mind of the writer that couplet " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, " The Devil always builds a chapel there." In this Mr. Daniel is not quite correct; such houses, particularly in thinly inhabited countries, are... | |
| Eneas Mackenzie - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 538
...weddingers mostly ride, and at the alehouse near the church (which is never wanting, for " Where'er the Lord erects a house of prayer, " The Devil always builds a chapel there,") they cheer their spirits with a hearty glass before the performance of the ceremony. An ancient but... | |
| sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...masculine expressions and happy turns of thought, not unworthy of the author of Absalom and Achitophel, though upon the whole, his style seems rather to have...Devil always builds a chapel there ; And 'twill be fonnd upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation. The author's first publication after... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...unlimited command of homely and forcible language. The opening lines of this satire have often quoted : and to the prize aspired. 'i \viil be fouud upon examination, The latter has the Jargest congregation. Varions political tracts... | |
| Daniel Defoe - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 406
...masculine expressions and happy turns of thought, not unworthy of the author of Absalum and Achitophel, — though upon the whole, his style seems rather to have...first verses are well known : Wherever God erects a hons« of prayer, The Devil always builds a cbapel there; And 't will be found, opon examination, The... | |
| Francis Glasse - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 200
...his departed wife a tolerable decent burial, in the same grave 'with his own mother. CHAPTER IV. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." " Entreat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity." Wesley's Sermon on... | |
| 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...give his departed wife a tolerable decent burial, in the same grave with his own mother. CHAPTER IV. " Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there." " Entreat the elder women as mothers, the younger as sisters, with all purity." Wesley's Sermon on... | |
| 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...flamed, in letters of light, the inscription, " God is love," it only served to remind me that — " 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." Returning home by the... | |
| Walter Scott - 1843 - عدد الصفحات: 456
...masculine expressions and happy turns of thought, not unworthy of the author of Absalom and Achitophel, though, upon the whole, his style seems rather to...prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there ; And *tw'il be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation." The author's first publication... | |
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