 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 396 trang
...will and appetite, but could not .prevail. Had I but served find as diligently as 1 have wrvt-d the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I most receive for nry indulgent pains and study : net regarding my gen-ice t« Ood, but only to my prince."... | |
 | John Galt - 1812 - 538 trang
...from his will and appetite, and could not prevail. Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs*." * This sentiment seems to be common to fallen ministers. When Samrah, the governor of Busorah, was... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 trang
...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....only to my prince." He died soon after, in all the pains of remorse, and quitted a life which had been all along rendered turbid by ambition. and wretched... | |
 | 1817 - 436 trang
...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 study, not...regarding my service to God, but only to my Prince." How impressive and emphatically just was the assertion of " this towering prelate !" It is reasonable... | |
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 trang
...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. There seems... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 606 trang
...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...regarding my service to God, but only to my prince. Therefore let me advise you, if you be one of the privy-council, as by your wisdom you are fit, take... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 trang
...forsaken me in my gray hairs; but this is the just reward I must receive for my pains and study, in not regarding my service to God, but only to my prince." He died on the twenty-ninth of November, 1530, ami next day was buried in the middle of one of the abbey chapels.... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 488 trang
...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...regarding my service to God, " but only to my Prince. Therefore let me advise " you, if you be one of the privy-council, as by your " wisdom you are fit,... | |
 | David Hume - 1819 - 406 trang
...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 my service to God, but only tomy prince.... | |
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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 grey hairs. 
