| 1833 - 152 pągines
...life spent in his service, he at length was ungratefully treated; and some of his last words were, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for all my pains and study, not regarding my service... | |
| Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 pągines
...But the haughty cardinal soon after fell sick and died, 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,... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pągines
...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 grey hairs." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, in... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pągines
...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 grey hairs." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, m... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pągines
...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 grey hairs." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, in... | |
| George Palmer Putnam - 1833 - 374 pągines
...on charge of treason, and dies in a monastery. "Had I but served God," said he on his death-bed, " as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my grey hairs." Sir Thomas More5 succeeds Wolsey as chancellor and prime minister. After... | |
| 1834 - 444 pągines
...tempted to bestow upon the world, or any thing in it, that affection and service which are due to God. " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...he would not have given me over, in my grey hairs." "It is incomparably better," says St. Augustine, "to shut the door of our heart against even just anger,... | |
| Edward Jesse - 1835 - 352 pągines
...Wolsey on his death bed. They were addressed, however, to Sir William Kingston : — ' Master Kingston, had I but served God ' as diligently as I have served...he would ' not have given me over in my grey hairs. But ' this is the just reward that I must receive for ' my diligent pains and study, not regarding... | |
| 1835 - 432 pągines
...see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as dttigcuf'i* ss I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive formy worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1836 - 328 pągines
...worldly aggrandizement, a little before he died, declared with anguish, in the midst of his disgrace " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." In like manner, many a one at the hour of dissolution will have to exclaim, " If I had been as anxious... | |
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