 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812
...his will and appetite, but could not .prevail. Had I but served find as diligently as 1 have wrvt-d the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I most receive for nry indulgent pains and study : net regarding my... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1812
...his will and appelito, but could not prevail. Had I but served God as diligently as I have served (he king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study: not regarding my... | |
![The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]](http://bks3.books.google.co.uk/books?id=ytoEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The Eclectic review. vol. 1-New [8th]") | 1813
...for the present author to observe, after reciting the Cardinal's well known ex- \ pression, ' Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs—' ' This sentiment seems to be common to fallen ministers. When Samrah, the governor of... | |
 | Charles Buck - Reference - 1815 - 352 pages
...from his 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 grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | John Aikin, William Enfield, Mr. Nicholson, Thomas Morgan, William Johnston - Biography & Autobiography - 1815
...conduct towards him, ending with the exclamation, " had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs !" He was, indeed, a victim to tyranny, but to a tyranny which he had himself fostered. There seems... | |
 | William Cobbett, Thomas Jones Howell - 1816
...now that death would discharge him of all Trials, but that before God, spake to this effect : ' Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given rae over in my gray hairs ; but this is my just reward. Notwithstanding, I pray ye commend me most... | |
![The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].](http://bks0.books.google.co.uk/books?id=fBwIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl "The British Plutarch [by T. Mortimer].") | Thomas Mortimer - 1816
...from his 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 grey hairs : but this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | 1816
...all Trials, but that before God, spake to ibis eilect : ' Had 1 served God as diligently as I hare done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs ; but this is my just reward. Notwithstanding, I pray ye commend me most humbly to the king,... | |
 | 1818
...you should be against me ; howe it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as L have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey heares. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent panics and study, that I... | |
 | David Hume - 1818
...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 grey hairs. But this is the " just reward that I must receive for my indulgent " pains and study, not regarding... | |
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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. 
