10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RAISE THE DEVIL»
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Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases
1792 Hamilton Papers 11.442: They forget an old but a very just, though a coarse
saying— That it is much easier to raise the Devil than to lay him. 1793
Brackenridge Modern 235: The Captain saw that it was a difficult matter to lay the
devil he ...
Bartlett Jere Whiting, 1977
Erasmus' Colloq., 202, Tis an old saying and a true, 'Tis an easier matter to raise
the devil, than 'tis to lay him. 61. The devil is God's ape. 1595: Polimanteia, sig.
B1, Satan desiring in this to bee Gods ape. 1 639: Fuller, Holy War, bk iv ch xxi, ...
George Latimer Apperson, Martin H. Manser, Stephen J. Curtis, 2005
A trip to Las Vegas for Scott Elliot of Hollywood Security, Inc. may have set grim events in motion when the starlet that Elliot wants to rescue from a gangland figure is killed with her gangster boyfriend in a plane crash.
There she stands, innocent bystander, but corrected by the book dealer: “The
Devil, this book is designed to raise the Devil.” The film begins with the scene of
this collector's suicide by hanging. The camera leaves the hang-up to ex- plore
the ...
Laurence A. Rickels, 2008
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
Both usages, from the mid-1700s, allude to the curtain raised at the beginning of
a theatrical performance, revealing the Stage. raise the devil 9 See under RAISE
CAIN. raise the roof 1. Be extremely noisy and boisterous, as in Theyd had a lot ...
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The Devil's Dominion: Magic and Religion in Early New England
And finally, Eliakim Hitchcock's claim that John Browne used astrology to raise
the Devil suggests that some New Englanders may have shared or absorbed
their ministers' view that astrological knowledge involved some kind of diabolical
...
... to be admitted by an annual insurance tee, to be raised (no matter how it was
to be raised), it was to be raised. The revenues of the church must be raised, or
the church will raise the Devil : beg it, feteh it, steal, starve, or die, — but you must
...
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The Routledge Book of World Proverbs
(English) If the Devil catch a man idle he'll set him at work. (Russian) If the Devil
must take us, let it be in a handsome carriage. (Spanish) In every church the
Devil has his altar. (German) It is easier to raise the Devil than to lay him down.
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The Political History of
the Devil
This, indeed, shows abundance of good humour in him, considering him as a
devil, and that he was mighty complaisant : nay, some, they tell us, have a power
to raise the Devil whenever they think fit ; this I cannot bring the Devil to a level
with ...
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Charles Babbage: Pioneer of
the Computer
After long thinking over the subject, although checked by a belief that the inquiry
was wicked, my curiosity at length overbalanced my fears, and I resolved to
attempt to raise the devil. Naughty people, I was told, had made written compacts
with ...
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