 | Tobias George Smollett - 1758
...feeling his end approaching, he fentfor Sir William Kingfton, and fpoke to this effect : " Had I ferved God as diligently as I have " done the king, he would not have abandoned my " grey hairs : but this is my juft reward. I pray " you commend me moft humbly to the... | |
 | Rapin de Thoyras (Paul, M.), Nicolas Tindal - Antiques & Collectibles - 1759
...cf the- carl, £r WjU Voj.. VI, V JiCT kind's officer who flood near his bed : " If I had ferved " God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not " have given me over in my grey hairs." But I do not know whether he had reafon to boaft of his zeal and difinteHoUii>e(h. reilednefs in the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1771
...'• appetite, but could not prevail. Had I but ferved God as diligently as I have ferved the king, king, he would not have given me over In my grey hairs. But this is the juft reward, that I muft receive for my indulgent pains and ftudy ; not regarding my... | |
 | David Hume - 1775
...appetite ; but could not prevail: « Had " Had I but ferved God as diligently as I have ferved CHAP. " the king, he would not have given me over in my grey XXX. " hairs. But this is the juft reward that I muft receive v — v ' " for my indulgent pains and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1777
...from his will and appetite, but could not prevail. Had I -but ferved God as diligently as I haveferved the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. .But this is thejuft reward that I mutt receive for my indulgent pains and ftudy; not regarding my... | |
 | David Hume - 1789
...will and appetite ; but " could not prevail : Had I but ferved God as " diligently as I have ferved the king, he would " not have given me over in my grey hairs. But tc this is the juft reward that I muft receive for " my indulgent pains and ftudy , not regarding... | |
 | Alexander Bicknell - Biography & Autobiography - 1791 - 453 pages
...will and appetite, but could not prevail. Had I but ferved my God as diligently as I have ferved my king, he "would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the juft reward that I niuft receive for. my indulgent pains and ftudy, not regarding my... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1797
...from his will and appetite, but could not prevail. Had I but ferved God as diligently as 1 have ferved the king, he would not have given' me over in my grey hairs. But this is the juft reward that I muft receive for my indulgent pains and ftudy, not regarding my... | |
 | William Jones - 1799 - 433 pages
...affection and fervice which are due to God.-—" Had I but ferved God as diligently " as I have ferved the King, HE would not have " given me over in my grey hairs." 5. To thofe, who would win men to religion by fire and faggot, may be applied the remark of the Earl... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1803
...constable of the Tower, who had him in custody: " Had I but served God as dili" gently as I have served the king, he would * not have given me over in my grey hairs. " Eat this is the just reward that I must receive " for " for my indulgent pains and study, not regard... | |
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Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "I see 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 grey hairs. 
