 | Gouverneur Mather Smith - 1870 - 82 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 432 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.'" For it is not every vow taken in a panic, to become a monk if spared, that... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1870 - 550 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.'" For it is not every vow taken in a panic, to become a monk it spared, that... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Brown - 1870 - 310 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1876 - 152 páginas
...advocated under pretense of extreme solicitude for the wants of trade. They remembered the old couplet : " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he;"* and thereafter designated the opponents of paying the bluebacks,... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1877 - 452 páginas
...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 wll, the devil a monk was he.' " 307 xa " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; "as well divide a... | |
 | Joseph P. Faulkner - 1878 - 334 páginas
...preservation through " a sea of troubles." But I fear we illustrated but the truth of the saying : " When the devil was sick the devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well the devil a monk was he." Then the sun appeared sucking up the mist as for his morning potations... | |
 | 1878 - 926 páginas
...John " — gave orders that he should be buried in the habit of a monk. What if he had recovered ? " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well, the devil a monk was he." In 1492, Richard Billesden was, according to the instructions in... | |
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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. 
