 | 1813 - 670 trang
...reciting the Cardinal's well known ex- \ pression, ' Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs—' ' This sentiment seems to be common to fallen ministers. When Samrah, the governor of Bussorah, was... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1814 - 550 trang
...Kingfton, among other things, he faid, " Had I but ferved God as diligently as I have " ferved the King, he would not have given me " over in my gray hairs. But this is the juft re" ward that I muft receive for my diligent pains " and ftudy, not regarding... | |
 | Thomas Bayly Howell - 1816 - 786 trang
...Trial*, but that before God, spake to this effect : ' Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs ; but this is my just reward. Notwithstanding, 1 pray ye commend me most humbly to the king, desiring... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1818 - 334 trang
...entreat 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,... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 trang
...and service which are due to God. — '. Had I but served God as diligently as I . " have served the king, HE would not have given me " over in my gray hairs." 5. To those, who would win men to religion by hre and faggot, may be applied the remark of the earl... | |
 | 1839 - 608 trang
...guard, who attended upon him after his arrest : " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."* It is difficult to account for this arrest on a charge of high treason, precisely at this time.f In... | |
 | 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
...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 singular a variety as the... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - 1824 - 288 trang
...I am come to lay my 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1825 - 1010 trang
...is copied almost literally from tbe Chronicle. "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the is sweet lady lie not guiltless here Voder some biting er Tbe opposite characters of him given by queen Katharine and Griflith are both derived from the history.... | |
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... had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. 
