...might be suspected, the fit of devotion is of no longer duration than the lime of imprisonment : " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be;...When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he" — applies very well to the history of cave conversions. I had the good fortune, when on my way to...

...conversions; and much emaciation, or a diminished supply of blood, has been the source of the couplet, " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." The conversions of Sir Matthew Hale and Colonel Gardiner, took...

...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...

...THE THIRD. CHAPTER XXIX. SHOWING HOW LIKE A GENTLEMAN A TINKER IS WHEN HE THINKS HE IS DYING. . • " When the devil 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...

...Armenians, and broken all the jars. They have also turned the dancers and singers out of the town. " When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be ; When the devil grew well, the devil a monk was he." As some of Major Litchfield's people were going into the town...

...DISTICH ADAPTED TO AN AIR PROM ABADI'S OVEBTORE.— (Suggested by his Offer to enter a M»nastery.) — When the Devil was sick, The Devil a Monk would be...When the Devil was well, The Devil a Monk was he. INSTBTTMBNT OF WAR— A LOOT. Here is a representation of a modern Eminent Egyptians. IN spite of the...

...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." " Thou say'st true," said the Solitary ; " as well divide a wolf from his appetite for carnage, or...

...the unabashed convalescent. " Ye .k. ii. ELihie, 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...

...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...

...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...