 | Maria Elizabeth Budden - 1855 - 474 Seiten
...humbled, at Leicester Abbey ; bequeathing to posterity these memorable words : " Had I served my God half as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have forsaken my grey hairs." Henry made a rather better figure abroad than he did at home. His meeting... | |
 | J J. Farnham - 1856 - 82 Seiten
...addressed sir William Kingston as follows. " Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Before Wolsey's death, Henry had married Anne Boleyn. While the pope was putting the matter off from... | |
 | George Punchard - 1856 - 538 Seiten
...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 gray hairs. Howbeit this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1856 - 278 Seiten
...the base ingratitude of his royal master: "Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs ; but I receive a just reward for my indulgent labor and care, not regarding my service to God, but... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 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. Rut this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - 1902 - 420 Seiten
...him, as a dying man ; in the course of which occurred the memorable words — " If I had served God as diligently as I have served my King, 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 that I... | |
 | Arthur May Mowry - 1902 - 338 Seiten
...cause his death. Just before he died, Wolsey said : " If I had served God as diligently as I have 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 had... | |
 | Horace Sumner Tarbell, Martha Tarbell - 1902 - 308 Seiten
...all day hunting for it. — SIR CHARLES WETHERELL. 9. Had I served God as diligently as I have the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. CARDINAL WOLSEY. 10. I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.... | |
 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1903 - 708 Seiten
...of the kind monks of Leicester Abbey, he uttered these self-censuring words : " Had I served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Wolsey had indeed sunk his priestly office in that of the statesman, and as a statesman he had often... | |
 | Eleanor Childs Meehan - 1903 - 390 Seiten
...said: " I am come to lay my bones among you. Had I but served my God as diligently as I have served the King, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs." In St. Paul's also lies England's other great soldier, Wellington. In Westminster are remembered, if... | |
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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. 
