| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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:... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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