 | Henry Walter - 1832 - 642 trang
...to leave my bones among you." He died here. And in his dying hour, he said to Kingston, " If I had 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, that I must receive for my pains and study to do the king service... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 218 trang
...felt his ingratitude and desertion. "Had I served my God," said he, "as diligently as I have served my King, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Thus died this famous Cardinal, than whom few ever attained to so great a height, or fell from it under... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 trang
...But the haughty cardinal soon after fell sick and died, having exclaimed in the pangs of remorse ; " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." 14. The opinions of various universities, favorable to Henry's views, having been obtained, and the... | |
 | 1833 - 152 trang
...life spent in his service, he at length was ungratefully treated; and some of his last words were, " 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 all my pains and study, not regarding... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 trang
...to the officer appointed to conduct him, " Had I but served God a» diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." There has been considerable disposition in later writers to vindicate the character of this minister;... | |
 | 1834 - 444 trang
...tempted to 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 the King, he would not have given me over, in my grey hairs." "It is incomparably better," says St. Augustine, "to shut the door of our heart against... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1835 - 352 trang
...Wolsey on his death bed. They were addressed, however, to Sir William Kingston : — ' Master Kingston, 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 diligent pains and study, not... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 328 trang
...worldly aggrandizement, a little before he died, declared with anguish, in the midst of his disgrace " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." In like manner, many a one at the hour of dissolution will have to exclaim, " If I had... | |
 | John Britton - 1836 - 442 trang
...last words are reputed to have been these : — " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs ; but this is the just reward that I must receive for the pains and study that I have had to do him service, not regarding my service... | |
 | 1836 - 712 trang
...situation, is well known to every reader of English history. He said, a little before he expired, ' had I 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 mast receive for my indulgent pains and etudy, not regarding... | |
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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. 
