 | 1831 - 548 Seiten
...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:... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 Seiten
...delinquency? Go to Leicester — and mark the crest-fallen Wolsey, and he will tell you, " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have forsaken me in the hour of my extremity." Would John Knox, would Luther, would Cranmer, or any of the... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1832 - 428 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 have given me over in my gray hairs." There has been considerable disposition in later writers to vindicate the character of this minister;... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - 1838 - 440 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1834 - 414 Seiten
...credit of founding it. On his death-bed he uttered these affecting words : — " Had 1 but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have left me in my grey hairs." The disgraceful and inhuman traffic for negro slaves was first practised... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth - 1835 - 546 Seiten
...Shortly before his decease, he exclaimed to the officer appointed to conduct him, "Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." There has been considerable disposition in later writers to vindicate the character of this minister;... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 282 Seiten
...significant comment on the poor rewards of an inordinate ambition ; " Had I," said he, " but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." After the adjournment of the legatine court Henry, although still determined to effect... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 278 Seiten
...significant comment on the poor rewards of an inordinate ambition ; " Had I," said he, " but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me .over in my grey hairs." After the adjournment of the legatine court Henry, although still determined to effect... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 278 Seiten
...significant comment on the poor rewards of an inordinate ambition ; " Had I," said he, " but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." MARRIAGE OF AHNE BOLEYN. 167 After the adjournment of the legatine court Henry, although... | |
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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. 
