 | Marshall Train Bigelow - 1881 - 134 страници
...be written with a capital ; but not when used as an expletive, or as a general name for any demon. When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be...When the Devil was well, the devil a monk was he. He will give the Devil his due. 6. All proper names, and all nouns or adjectives formed from proper... | |
 | Marshall Train Bigelow - 1881 - 142 страници
...should be written with a capital; but not when used as an expletive, or as a general name for any demon. When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be...When the Devil was well, the devil a monk was he. He will give the Devil his due. 6. All proper names, and all nouns or adjectives formed from proper... | |
 | Francis Henry Buffum - 1882 - 538 страници
...deliverance ; but, when terra firma was reached, they were as profane as they had been prayerful. " When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be: When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he." Some of the protestations of that desperate time would not read... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1882 - 1076 страници
...be paid arid obedience rendered to the railroad authorities •of the State, it has no such tracks: When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well, the devil a mouk was he. This brings us to a further consideration of the questions of law... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1883 - 1252 страници
...bonny bay again." "And all those promises of amendment which you made during your illness forgotten ?" continued Elshender. " All clear away, with the water-saps...unabashed convalescent. " Ye ken, Elshie, for they say yn are weel acquent wi' the gentleman — When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When... | |
 | 1884 - 864 страници
...that regard under the influence or example of that important personage of whom the couplet runs : " When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well the devil a monk was he." Indeed there are quite a large number of persons in all commuities who do not look upon lawyers' fees... | |
 | Marshall Train Bigelow - 1884 - 124 страници
...be written with a capital ; but not when used as an expletive, or as a general name for any demon. When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; When the Devil was well, the devil a monk was lie. He will give the Devil his due. 6. All proper names, and all nouns or adjectives formed from proper... | |
 | Church congress - 1885 - 650 страници
...and I said if I could only get home lo England I would be a different man. You know the old lines, " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." So, my friends, when I got well again it was only to be worse instead of better. I was wilder than... | |
 | 1886 - 562 страници
...sackcloth and ashes? The moral at least remains for men, and has been cleverly rendered in a distich : " When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he." THE CAPTIVE. DISGUISE thyself as thon wilt, still, Slavery, still... | |
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When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. 
