 | Francis Henry Buffum - 1882 - 538 pàgines
...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 well to those who have now got twenty... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1882 - 1076 pàgines
...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 presented in my letter... | |
 | 1884 - 924 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Church congress - 1885 - 650 pàgines
...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... | |
 | George Alfred Townsend - 1886 - 590 pàgines
...dangerous, I'll make my way to Nelly's soon, and she has promised to marry me. How true it is that — ' When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...; When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he ! ' " As Lloyd Quantrell reached the city, the drums of the two great disbanding armies of the Union... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pàgines
...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 thou art a bitter draught, and, though... | |
 | Laura Jean Libbey - 1888 - 230 pàgines
...quoting, with a sneer on his face which by no means improved its expression : — " When the devil got sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he." " That would be more like you, Lennox,— eh ? " taking him by the arm, notwithstanding the poor fellow's... | |
 | John Bird Finch - 1888 - 312 pàgines
...liquors. The statement is one being urged by liquor men in all parts of the stata One is reminded that "When the Devil was sick The Devil a monk would be; When the Devil was well, The Devil a monk was he!" The statement, as I said, is false, but if it were true I would... | |
 | 1890 - 526 pàgines
...wants as little civil service reform as possible: the party not in power wants a great deal of it. "When the devil was sick. The devil a monk would be;...When the devil got well. The devil a monk was he." Politicians want reform when they are politically sick. Aftera party success, however, they betray... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 530 pàgines
...too late to mend. No risk, no gain. Necessity knows no law. Where there is a will, there is a way. When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; when the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. ©je ergriffen tíjn mit ©etoolt. ©te (amen Siner nadj bem ЯпЬсга.... | |
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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. 
