 | Elizabeth Caroline Grey - 1845 - 958 pages
...suggests not inappropriately those quaint, but most applicable words of Pope — " When the devil wa» sick, the devil a saint would be, When the devil was well, the DEVIL a saint was he." CHAPTER XIII. " Though mountains meet not, IOTCM may So others do, and so do they ; The god of love... | |
 | 124 pages
...it is incontestable thnt he wai their unrelenting enemy. But did he die as he had lived I When t*e devil was sick, the devil a saint would be, When the devil was well, the devil a saint was he. Waa Henry Hetherington "sick'" a saint and Henry Hetherington "well" a sinner? It is important that... | |
 | Literature - 1866 - 672 pages
...on his way rejoicing, but only to furnish another example of the truth of the old proverb, that— When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; When the devil got well, the devil a saint was he! Leave him, and assure him at the same time that the nasty rod is... | |
 | C. A. Chardenal - 1872 - 340 pages
...desire of, it is my desire that you (do), a desperate attempt, at dessert, it is the devil rebuking sin, when the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; when the devil got well, the devil a saint was he, talk of the devil, and he appears, diamond cut diamond, tit for... | |
 | 1873 - 490 pages
...when he was well enough to be moved had brought him to Eriesmere. According to the old proverb — " When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be...When the devil was well, the devil a saint was he." Bertie was wonderfully quiet and subdued in manner when he first returned to consciousness. He was... | |
 | Fiction - 1873 - 492 pages
...when he waa well enough to be moved had brought him to Erlesmere. According to the old proverb — " When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be...When the devil was well, the devil a saint was he." Bertie was wonderfully quiet and subdued in manner when he first returned to consciousness. He was... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1873 - 476 pages
...left. ANONYMOUS. ^Egrotat Daemon, monachus tune esse volebat, Daemon convaluit, Daemon ut ante fuit — When the Devil was sick, the Devil a saint would be, When the Devil got well, the Devil a saint was he. Benefacta male locata, malefacta arbitror (Cicero) — Praise undeserved... | |
 | George R. C. Herbert (Earl of Pembroke.), George Henry Kingsley - Oceania - 1873 - 348 pages
...account of his conversion was sent by the pleased missionary to their magazine at home. Alas, alas ! " When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be ; When the devil got well, the devil a saint was he ! " Soon, too soon, he relapsed into his evil courses, and the account... | |
 | G. W. Fitz - 1876 - 274 pages
...turned to that Creator he had forgotten so many years. There is a deal of truth in the old song, — " When the devil was sick, the devil a saint would be, When the devil got well, the devil a saint was he." I am afraid we all partake too much of that hypocrisy in this... | |
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