 | James Roberts Gilmore - 1863 - 324 pagini
...written by him. " I've no faith in sick-bed repentances; and none in John Hallet, sick or well. " ' When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be; When the devil got well, The devil a monk was he.' " However, as Hallet is capable of cheating his best friend, even... | |
 | James Roberts Gilmore - 1863 - 340 pagini
...anything written by him. "I Ve no faith in sick-bed repentances; and none in John Hallet, sick or well. "'When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be ; When the devil got well, The devil a monk was he.' having taken him sixteen years to make up his mind to do a right... | |
 | James Roberts Gilmore - 1863 - 334 pagini
...written by Mm. " I've no faith in sick-bed repentances ; and none in John Hallet, sick or well. "' When the devil was sick, The devil a monk would be; When the devil got well, The devil a monk was he.' 11 However, as Hallet is capable of cheating his best friend, even... | |
 | David Thomas - 1868 - 404 pagini
...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 is kept as Luther's was... | |
 | Medical Society of New Jersey - 1868 - 632 pagini
...language and said, " All that a man hath, will be promise to give for his life." The homely distich — When the Devil was sick, the Devil a Monk would be ; When the Devil got well, the devil a Monk was he. expresses a great deal of truth, and indicates the manner in which... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - 1868 - 810 pagini
...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... | |
 | Alfred Henderson - 1869 - 526 pagini
...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... | |
 | 1869 - 802 pagini
...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1869 - 1108 pagini
...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 - 550 pagini
...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 is kept as Luther's was... | |
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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. 
