 | 1869 - 802 страници
...he has come out a different man, and is going to be a better man, men shake their heads and say : " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he ! " And it is the testimony of shrewd, observing men, that when a... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 страници
...mental than bodily. ALgrotat Damon, mondchus tune esse volebat ; Damon convaluit, D&mon ut ante fuit. " When the Devil was sick the Devil a monk would be, When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he." " The danger past, and God forgotten." " When it thunders the thief... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1869 - 1108 страници
...the society received a fright, and they thereupon commenced to make promises of instant amendment. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil got veil, the devil a monk was he." The society went over to Ireland officially in order to hold a... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 страници
...bonnie bay again." "And all those promises of amendment which you made during your illness forgotten?" continued Elshender. "All clear away, with the water-saps...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.'" For it is not every vow taken in a panic, to become a monk if spared, that is kept as Luther's was—"... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 страници
...bonnie bay again." " And all those promises of amendment which you made during your illness forgotten?" continued Elshender. "All clear away, with the water-saps...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.'" For it is not every vow taken in a panic, to become a monk it spared, that is kept as Luther's was... | |
 | Gouverneur Mather Smith - 1870 - 82 страници
...mental emotions. Rabelais was not an inspired writer, but was inspired with truth when he wrote — " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." A few words in regard to the present and future status of practical medicine and surgery. In the early... | |
 | 1870 - 790 страници
...and peril do we not all become so very good ? as explained so racily in that old well-known couplet : "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be,...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." He places the limit of turning at 3.25" to 3.75" conjugate diameter, when at the latter point it comes... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Brown - 1870 - 310 страници
...know very well these promises will come to nothing. The Devil's poor are like their master, for— " When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be ; When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he." Setting one of the Devil's poor on his feet is very much like setting... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1871 - 218 страници
...of this sort before now. When patients are first up from a sickness, how prudent they mean to be! ' When the Devil was sick, the Devil a monk would be : When the Devil got well, the devil a monk was he.' ' Thank you, Doctor,' said Miss Emily ; ' but I think that poetry... | |
 | John Conroy Hutcheson - 1873 - 334 страници
...believe that! Can the leopard change his spots ?" — and so on ; or else, kindly hint, that, — " when the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be : when the devil got well, the devil a monk was he." — Oh yes, I had little doubt what their charitable judgment would... | |
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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. 
