 | John Adams - Great Britain - 1813 - 324 pages
...bed, whence he never rose more. " Had I but served my God," cried he, a little before he expired, " as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." » His treason, indeed, seems rather to have been against the people than the prince,... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1815 - 506 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Buck - Bible - 1815 - 430 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 606 pages
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - Great Britain - 1818 - 334 pages
...entreat him to call to his remembrance all that hath hitherto passed between us — alas, if I had served my God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have left me in my grey hairs a prey unto mine enemies." " Papa," said John ; " the life of Thomas a Becket,... | |
 | David Hume - 1818 - 1818 - 488 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Edgar - 1822 - 298 pages
...whence he never rose more. — " O ! had I but served my God," cried he, a little before he expired, " as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have deserted me in my grey hairs."— History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, page 276. A competence not more... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1823 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | David Hume, John Robinson - Great Britain - 1824 - 568 pages
...words to sir William Kingston, constable of the Tower, who had him in custody : " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Thus died this famous cardinal, whose character seems to have contained as singular a... | |
 | Isaac Taylor - Great Britain - 1824 - 288 pages
...come to lay my bones among you." He died in three days, leaving this remarkable confession : " Had I but served my GOD as diligently as I have served my king, he would not have forsaken my grey hairs." He died in November 1530, at the age of sixty. 51. SIR THOMAS MORE. Beheaded... | |
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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 grey hairs. 
