 | Tobias Smollett - 1758 - 490 pages
...feeling his end approaching, he fentfor Sir William Kingfton, and fpoke to this effect : " Had I ferved God as diligently as I have " done the king, he would not have abandoned my " grey hairs : but this is my juft reward. I pray " you commend me moft humbly to the... | |
 | 1813 - 670 pages
...for the present author to observe, after reciting the Cardinal's well known ex- \ pression, ' Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs—' ' This sentiment seems to be common to fallen ministers. When Samrah, the governor of... | |
 | 1816 - 790 pages
...now that death would discharge him of all Trials, but that before God, spake to this effect : ' Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given rae over in my gray hairs ; but this is my just reward. Notwithstanding, I pray ye commend me most... | |
 | 1816 - 788 pages
...all 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,... | |
 | 1818 - 600 pages
...you should be against me ; howe it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as L have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey heares. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent panics and study, that I... | |
 | 1839 - 608 pages
...as addressed to Mr. Kingston, the captain of the 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... | |
 | 1822 - 384 pages
...the matter maketh you much worse than you should be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done...the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study, that I have... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...the matter maketh you much worse than you should be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done...the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study, that I have... | |
 | 1823 - 584 pages
...see the matter maketh you much worse than ye should be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done...the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for tny diligent pains and study, that I... | |
 | Maria Hack - 1825 - 490 pages
...last, informs us, that a little before the cardinal expired, he said to one standing beside him: " 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 not regarding my service to God, but... | |
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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 gray hairs. 
