 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 trang
...constable of the Tower, relative to the King, and his conduct towards him, ending with the exclamation, " had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs !" He was, indeed, a victim to tyranny, but to a tyranny which he had himself fostered.... | |
 | 1817 - 436 trang
...the misappropriation of his time and talents, a little before his dissolution he exclaimed, " Had I served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have forsaken me in my grey hairs ; but this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 606 trang
...• times three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail. 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 the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not... | |
 | 1816 - 788 trang
...Trials, but that before God, spake to ibis eilect : ' Had 1 served God as diligently as I hare done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs ; but this is my just reward. Notwithstanding, I pray ye commend me most humbly to the king, desiring... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 trang
...his blind devotion to his prince. " Had I served God," said he, a short time before his death, •• as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs; but this is the just reward I must receive for my pains and study, in... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 trang
...bestow upon the world, or any thing in it, that affection and service which are due to God. — '. Had I but served God as diligently as I . " have served...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... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 488 trang
...sometimes three hours together, to per" suade him from his will and appetite ; but could " not prevail : 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 the " just reward that I must receive for my indulgent " pains and study, not... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 406 trang
...sometimes three hours together, to persuade him from' his will and appetite ; but could not prevail : 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 the just reward that 1 must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding... | |
 | Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 trang
...he eitpired, he said to the king's officers, who stood near his hed : " If I had served God half so diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in ror grey hairs." Thus died the famous Cardinal Wolsey. His greatest crime was his amhition, and it... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
