 | 1848 - 544 páginas
...illness and feebleness which his debaucheries have occasioned, thus illustrating the old proverb, — " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be,...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." He has almost constantly by him a choice coterie of boon companions, ranging from the elegant libertine... | |
 | Samuel Lover - 1851 - 246 páginas
...CHAPTER XXIX. SHOWING HOW LIKE A GENTLEMAN A TINKER IS WHEN HE THINKS HE IS DYING. " When the He vil was sick, the devil a monk would be. When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." To account for the presence of Regan in the glen of the Folly at this time, it becomes necessary to... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1852 - 700 páginas
...the unabashed convalescent. " Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are weel acquent wi' the gentleman, ' When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be,...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.' " " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; " as well divide a wolf from his appetite for carnage, or... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1853 - 424 páginas
...illness and feebleness which his debaucheries have occasioned, thus illustrating the old proverb, — "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.'1 He has almost constantly by him a choice coterie of boon companions, ranging from the elegant... | |
 | 1858 - 416 páginas
...before, yet, generally speaking, the fit of devotion was of no longer duration than the phenomena. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he" — might apply very well to the history of these conversions. The following descriptions by eye-witnesses... | |
 | 1858 - 414 páginas
...before, yet, generally speaking, the fit of devotion was of no longer duration than the phenomena. "When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he" — might apply very well to the history of these conversions. The following descriptions by eye-witnesses... | |
 | Universalist Church of America. General Convention - 1858 - 388 páginas
...strife his bedroom philosophy disparages. I do not forget the distich ; — " When the devil was ill, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." The other, on the contrary, thinks, no, feels — except in those pauses of which we spoke, when certain... | |
 | Alonzo Ames Miner, Elbridge Gerry Brooks, Alonzo Amos Miner, Abel Charles Thomas - 1858 - 410 páginas
...strife his bedroom philosophy disparages. I do not forget the distich ; — " When the devil was ill, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." The other, on the contrary, thinks, no, feels — except in those pauses of which we spoke, when certain... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1859 - 856 páginas
...that he had enough of fighting, and that he could not outface the reprobation of united Europe ? " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he." He who had in cool blood counted the cost of the war, and had arranged all his plans in the full knowledge... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1859 - 850 páginas
...the unabashed convalescent. " Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are weel acquent wi' the gentleman, ' When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be, When the devil was well, the devil a monk was lie.' " " Thou say 'st true," said the Solitary ; " as well divide a wolf from his appetite for carnage,... | |
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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. 
