 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1848 - 588 pages
...heart ; and rather than he will miss or want any part of his will, he will endanger the one-half of his kingdom. " I do assure you, that I have often...have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is the iust reward that I must receive for mv indul- CHAP. "YW gent pains and study, not regarding my service... | |
 | Royal Robbins - History - 1848 - 728 pages
...broken heart soon afterwards, uttering in the anguish of his soul, the never to be forgotten words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs." Anne Boieyn, in less than three years, was condemned and beheaded. After... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding, William Fletcher Harding - Great Britain - 1909 - 402 pages
...imprisoned in the Tower. In his last hours he said: " Had I but served my God as faithfully as I hare served the King, he would not have given me over in my old age!" Failing to obtain a divorce from the Pope, the King obtained one from Cranmer, Archbishop... | |
 | Waitman Barbe - American poetry - 1909 - 252 pages
...industry, his power and his splendor, he said, "If I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." This historical sketch will help to an understanding of such passages as these : "Wolsey, that once... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1910 - 502 pages
...to visit him, perhaps to apprehend him. Wolsey said to him, when he felt himself dying, " If I had served God as diligently as I have served the king,...he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." When Robert Cecil, the great statesman, worn out with the cares of office, lay at the point of death,... | |
 | Maude Barrows Dutton - Great Britain - 1911 - 266 pages
...lay there dying, he turned to the monks and said, " If I had served God as diligently as' I have done .the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." QUEEN ELIZABETH ON the 1oth of September, 1533, the bell on the Friars' Church proclaimed that some... | |
 | Great Britain - 1912 - 558 pages
...three hours together, to persuade him from his appetite, and could not prevail. And, Master Knyghton, 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 my due reward for my pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but... | |
 | Henry Lowther Clarke - England - 1912 - 278 pages
..."Well, well, Master Kingston," said Wolsey, "I see the matter against me how it is framed, but if I had served God as diligently as I have served the 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... | |
 | Alice Minerva Atkinson - Europe - 1912 - 452 pages
...and his own ruin, Wolsey die/i. His last words were, " If I had served God as diligently as I hive served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. Howbeit this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
 | Charles McLean Andrews - Great Britain - 1912 - 514 pages
...upon his deathbed to the lieutenant of the Tower, " if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." 203. The Rise and Policy of Thomas Cromwell. — Henry had failed thus far in his dealings with Rome,... | |
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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. 
