 | John Adams - 1813 - 324 trang
...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 prince, or even the state.... | |
 | Robert Henry - 1814 - 550 trang
...William 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 my fervice to God,... | |
 | Charles Buck - 1815 - 430 trang
...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 regarding... | |
 | John Aikin - 1815 - 506 trang
...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
...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 him to call... | |
 | 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
...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...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
...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... | |
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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. 
