 | 1831 - 388 páginas
...the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God at diligently * as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1831 - 406 páginas
...which he laboured, mortal. His dying words were, " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. This is the just reward that I must receive for the pains I have taken to do him service, not regarding... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 218 páginas
...his sovereign, though he keenly 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... | |
 | Henry Walter - 1832 - 642 páginas
...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 ; not regarding my... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1846 - 828 páginas
...to render my simple soul unto his divine hands. If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 páginas
...before hiadecease, he exclaimed 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... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 páginas
...see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, in... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, in... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 páginas
...see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, m... | |
 | Eneas Mackenzie, Marvin Ross - 1834 - 668 páginas
...age. Shortly before his decease, he exclaimed to the officer appointed to conduct him, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king,...he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." The ambition, arrogance, and rapacity of Wolsey, have been dwelt upon by most historians. Dr. Lingard,... | |
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Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see the matter against me how it is framed; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. 
