 | L. N. R. - 1854 - 522 Seiten
...expired with the language of a persecutor on his lips. After the well-known words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs," he said, " Commend me to his royal majesty, and request him, in God's name, that he be on the watch... | |
 | Ellen Henrietta Ranyard - 1854 - 522 Seiten
...expired with the language of a persecutor on his lips. After the well-known words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs," he said, " Commend me to his royal majesty, and request him, in God's name, that he be on the watch... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1854 - 894 Seiten
...is said to have exclaimed, in the bitterness of humiliation and remorse, " Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."* a. The following soliloquy is put by Shnkspenre into the mouth of the humbled favorite OD the occasion... | |
 | 1854 - 226 Seiten
...was at hand, he spoke gratefully of the king, but added these memorable words : " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." With all his faults, Wolsey was a munificent patron of learning, and upright in his administration... | |
 | Elizabeth Cartwright Penrose - 1854 - 602 Seiten
...many weaknesses. On his death-bed he uttered these affecting words : — " Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have left me in my gray hairs." Richqrd. I wonder that he or anybody could ever have endured that good-for-nothing... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1854 - 318 Seiten
...he never rose again. His last words were, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, He would not have given me over, in my gray hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding my service to God, but only... | |
 | 1854 - 420 Seiten
...Master Kingston," exclaimed the cardinal, " if I had served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs !" and then he added with downcast head : " This is my just reward." What a jndgment upon his own life!... | |
 | David Hume - 1854 - 602 Seiten
...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 indul- CHAP. gent pains and study, not regarding... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1855 - 628 Seiten
...is said to have exclaimed, in the bitterness of humiliation and remorse, " Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."» a. The following soliloquy Is put by Shakspeare Into the mouth of the bnmbled favorite va the occasion... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 Seiten
...past life, he addressed those who stood around his bed, and said, " If I had served my God but half as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." These were some of the last words of Cardinal Wolsey ; — what a lesson of instruction... | |
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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. 
