 | William Russell - 1802 - 512 trang
...bed, whence he never rose more. " O had I but served my God," cried he, a little before he expired, " as diligently as I have served my king, he would " not have deserted me in my grey hairs8." His treason, indeed, seems rather to have been against the people than... | |
 | 1902 - 642 trang
...laid low, and the thought already in his mind to which he later gave utterance : 'Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served ' my king, He would not have given me over in my ' grey hairs; ' of Henry VIII. entering upon possession of the palace he had robbed from... | |
 | Ancient relics - 1812 - 220 trang
...occasioned by anxiety and fatigue, leaving behind him this admonitory expression — " If I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over to my enemies." He was buried in the abbey church of Leicester, though the exact spot is now unknown.... | |
 | James Storer, James Sargant Storer - 1812 - 218 trang
...occasioned by anxiety and fatigue, leaving bebind him this admonitory expression — " If I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over to my enemies." He was buried in the abbey church of Leicester, though the exact spot is now unknown.... | |
 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 trang
...bed, whence he never rose more. " Had I but served my God," cried he, a little before he expired, " as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." » His treason, indeed, seems rather to have been against the people than the... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1818 - 334 trang
...him to call to his remembrance all that hath hitherto passed between us — alas, if I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have left me in my grey hairs a prey unto mine enemies." " Papa," said John ; " the life of Thomas a Becket,... | |
 | Thomas Edgar - 1822 - 298 trang
...whence he never rose more. — " O ! had I but served my God," cried he, a little before he expired, " as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have deserted me in my grey hairs."— History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, page 276. A competence not more... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - 1824 - 568 trang
...used the following words to sir William Kingston, constable of the Tower, who had him in custody : " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Thus died this famous cardinal, whose character seems to have contained as... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1824 - 288 trang
...bones among you." He died in three days, leaving this remarkable confession : " Had I but served my GOD as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have forsaken my grey hairs." He died in November 1530, at the age of sixty. 51. SIR THOMAS MORE. Beheaded... | |
 | John Lingard - 1825 - 528 trang
...sometimes for " three hours together to persuade him from his " appetite, and could not prevail. And, master " Kyngston, had I but served God as diligently " as I have served the king, he would not have ** given me over in my grey hairs. But this is " my just reward for my... | |
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Kingston, had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. 
