 | 800 pages
...ruin. Shortly before his death he gave utterance to these memorable words, " Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." It has been said, " The ill that men do lives after them, the good is oft interred with... | |
 | Titus Mooney Merriman - 1863 - 530 pages
...soon after, \Volsey exclaimed, in remorse, "Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Henry was advised, in his dilemma and suspense, to seek the opinion of the Universities. This done,... | |
 | Samuel Martin - 1863 - 352 pages
...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. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains I have had... | |
 | Henry Ince - 1864 - 310 pages
...lay my bones among you ;" — here he died on November 28, 1530, declaring, " If I had served God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me up in my grey hairs — this is my just reward for my pains and study, not regarding my service to... | |
 | Henry Ince - 1864 - 166 pages
...and he died broken-hearted, at Leicester, Nov. 28, 1530; declaring that " if I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me up in my grey hairs ; this is my just reward for my pains and study, not regarding my service to God,... | |
 | Arthur May Mowry - 1902 - 338 pages
...cause his death. Just before he died, Wolsey said : " If I had served God as diligently as I have the king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I had... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1902 - 308 pages
...all day hunting for it. — SIR CHARLES WETHERELL. 9. Had I served God as diligently as I have the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. CARDINAL WOLSEY. 10. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 pages
...the kind monks of Leicester Abbey, he uttered these self-censuring words : " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Wolsey had indeed sunk his priestly office in that of the statesman, and as a statesman he had often... | |
 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - 1903 - 390 pages
...said: " I am come to lay my bones among you. Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served the King, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." In St. Paul's also lies England's other great soldier, Wellington. In Westminster are remembered, if... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1904 - 602 pages
...treason. This fall from his high estate broke Wolsey's heart, and he died saying, " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Cromwell's Advice. — The minister who took Wolsey's place was named Thomas Cromwell, and was a bold... | |
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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. 
