| 1856 - 520 pages
...good place. For first-class horses it is, and always has been, a first-class place. HORSE-DEALERS. — OPINIONS. — FACTS AND PHILOSOPHY. There is a saying...is not so black as he is painted. And there is also n caution, which dates I have no doubt a century or two back, that you should never have anything to... | |
| Ghosts - 1846 - 234 pages
...of reason cannot afterwards wholly eradicate !" THE DEVIL AND THE PRUSSIAN GRENADIER. IT is an old saying, that " the devil is not so black as he is painted." This proverb receives confirmation from the following story, which shows that the appearance of his... | |
| 1847 - 592 pages
...fashion — " It is a sage infant who is intimately acquainted with his own paternal relative." For The devil is not so black as he is painted, and There 's no washing a blackamoor white, we must now read — " The infernal being is not so sableas limners... | |
| 1865 - 582 pages
...conspicuous to mankind in the details of the Indian mutiny or the history of the massacres in Arabia. There is a saying, that the devil is not so black as he is painted ; but, certainly, setting aside the exaggeration of the travellers who speak, or the embellishment... | |
| North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...unitive and entire. It blinks the underlying contradiction, and therefore must seek to persuade us that " the Devil is not so black as he is painted," and indeed is not of a black complexion at all, but is only a serviceable angel in soiled linen, — grimed... | |
| Fred Burnaby - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 - 1877 - 418 pages
...and then will return to me," would be the answer. and travel a little in Anatolia. There is an old saying that " the devil is not so black as he is painted," and in many things writers who call themselves Christians might well take a lesson from the Turks in Asia... | |
| Military art and science - 1882 - 626 pages
...of bread being given to each. Everything having been paid for, our hostess expressed as her opinion that the " Devil is not so black as he is painted," and informed me that the French had not behaved so well oil their passage through there, many having drunk... | |
| Thomas Stewart Denison - 1885 - 574 pages
...aldermen, just as occasionally an honest man has the misfortune to get into the penitentiary. It is said that the devil is not so black as he is painted, and perhaps it would only be fair to give the professional alderman the benefit of the same doubt. The... | |
| Edna Lyall - 1891 - 308 pages
...glad," and realise that the devil thinks their work worth molesting. But the young have always a feeling that the devil is not so black as he is painted, and that the world is, after all, kindly disposed, and so their first experience of injustice comes like... | |
| Sabine Baring-Gould - Aquitaine - 1894 - 330 pages
...inhabitants of the towns furnished them with these in defiance of royal rescript. It was soon found that the devil is not so black as he is painted, and relationships of friendship and of blood were contracted between the citizens and the enemy. They rendered... | |
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