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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. "
Encyclopaedia Americana: A Popular Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature ... - Page 237
edited by - 1833
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King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - 1826 - 490 pages
...Kingston,' cjnotli he, ' I see the matter against me how it is framed , but if I had served my Bod as diligently as I have served my 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...
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Hume and Smollett's Celebrated History of England, from Its First Settlement ...

David Hume, John Robinson - 1827 - 568 pages
...used the following words to sir William Kingston, constable of the tower, who had him in custody : " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Thus died this famous cardinal, whose character seems to have contained as singular a variety as the...
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A History of England: From the First Invasion by the Romans, Volume 6

John Lingard - 1827 - 642 pages
...and could not prevail. And, master Kyngston, 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 my just reward for my pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only my duty...
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The History of England: From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the ..., Volume 4

David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 386 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 indulgent pains and study, not regarding my...
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Horę Salisburienses [afterw.] Sarisburienses

1829 - 366 pages
...naturally present to my thoughts the memorable and feeling appeal of Cardinal Wolsey: " 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." Here, then, and here only, it indeed is that we are to seek for real friendship. It is...
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The Family monitor

1831 - 548 pages
...the world, or any thing in it, that affection and service which are due to God. " 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." Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not:...
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Second Book of History for Children and Youth

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1832 - 218 pages
...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 from it under...
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Elements of History, Ancient and Modern: With Historical Charts

Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1832 - 428 pages
...having exclaimed in the pangs of 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." 14. The opinions of various universities, favorable to Henry's views, having been obtained, and the...
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Encyclopędia Americana, ed. by F. Lieber assisted by E. Wigglesworth (and T ...

Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...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...be forgotten that, in the reign of Henry VIII, who bad basely murdered him, of Mary, the daughter of the much- injured Catharine, and of Elizabeth, whose...
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Elements of History, Ancient and Modern: With a Chart and Tables of History ...

Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 pages
...having exclaimed in the pangs of 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." 14. The opinions of various universities, favorable to Henry's views, having been obtained, and the...
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