 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 600 pages
...drew from him this sorrowful declaration : " Had 1 but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is the just reward that 1 must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1851 - 244 pages
...He immediately took to his bed, from which he never rose. " O, had I but served my God," he cried, " as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have deserted me in my grey hairs." A short time previous to his execution, Sir Thomas Seymour wrote thus... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - 1851 - 592 pages
...drew from him this sorrowful declaration: " Had 1 but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is the just reward that 1 must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | Audin (M., Jean Marie Vincent) - 1852 - 478 pages
...quickly as (a) Cavendish, and other historians. («) If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. — Cavendish. — Turner. — Lingard. (») Then presentlie the clooke strooke eight, at which lime... | |
 | 1853 - 616 pages
...during this interview that Wolsey uttered the words, "Had I served my God as faithfully as I served ray king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs;" and then rousing him for* last effort, he said, " Master Kingston, attend to my last request : tell... | |
 | L. N. R. - 1854 - 522 pages
...November, 1530 : he expired with the language of a persecutor on his lips. After the well-known words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...He would not have given me over in my gray hairs," he said, " Commend me to his royal majesty, and request him, in God's name, that he be on the watch... | |
 | Ellen Henrietta Ranyard - 1854 - 522 pages
...November, 1530 : he expired with the language of a persecutor on his lips. After the well-known words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...He would not have given me over in my gray hairs," he said, " Commend me to his royal majesty, and request him, in God's name, that he be on the watch... | |
 | 1854 - 226 pages
...death was at hand, he spoke gratefully of the king, but added these memorable words : " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." With all his faults, Wolsey was a munificent patron of learning, and upright in his administration... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 602 pages
...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 gray hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indul- CHAP. gent pains and study, not regarding... | |
 | 1854 - 420 pages
...Master Kingston," exclaimed the cardinal, " if I had served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs !" and then he added with downcast head : " This is my just reward." What a jndgment upon his own life!... | |
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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. 
