 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1879 - 392 páginas
...unabashed convalescent. ' Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are well acquaint with the gentleman — When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he.' — Ch. vi. seclusion, when not bound by any religious vow, seems scarcely... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1879 - 418 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1879 - 406 páginas
...returned 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." VOL. XV. P " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; " as well divide a wolf... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1880 - 390 páginas
...the unabashed convalescent. " Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are \veei 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... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1889 - 1080 páginas
...convalescent. " Ye ken, Elshie, for they say ye are weel acquent wi' the gentleman — When the devil wns 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... | |
 | Marshall Train Bigelow - 1881 - 134 páginas
...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... | |
 | Marshall Train Bigelow - 1881 - 142 páginas
...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... | |
 | Iowa. General Assembly - 1882 - 1076 páginas
...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... | |
 | Francis Henry Buffum - 1882 - 538 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1884 - 864 páginas
...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... | |
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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. 
