 | John Sedgwick - 1850 - 320 pages
...at the convent of Leicester, Nov. 28, 1530, immediately after uttering these remarkable words — " Had I but served GOD as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the reward that I receive for not regarding His service, but only... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pages
...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 the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." In like manner, many a one at the hour of dissolution will have to exclaim,... | |
 | Mrs. L. G. Abell - 1850 - 462 pages
...days after, with great composure and fortitude. He said, shortly before his death, " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs ; but this is the just reward I must receive for my pains and study, in... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 592 pages
...consciousness of the misapplication of his time and talents, 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,... | |
 | Davis Wasgatt Clark - Christian martyrs - 1851 - 600 pages
...consciousness of the misapplication of his time and talents, 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,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1851 - 532 pages
...to persuade him from his appetite, and could not prevail. And, Master Kingston, this I will say — had I but served God as diligently as I have served the kiner, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." The cardinal expired as the clock was striking... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 536 pages
...to persuade him from his appetite, and could not prevail. And, Master Kingston, this I will say — had I but served God as diligently as I have served the kimz, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." The cardinal expired as the clock was striking... | |
 | Biography - 1852 - 318 pages
...— words amongst his latest, and almost literally adopted by • the great dramatist, — "If I had served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over . in my grey hairs ! " The last reflections of Newton taught him, too, humility ; but a humility... | |
 | Virginia Conser Shaffer - History - 1890 - 160 pages
...that he was dying, and as he reviewed his past life he turned to his attendant and said, mournfully, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." In the days of his prosperity Wolsey was a liberal patron of literature and... | |
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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 grey hairs. 
