 | George Palmer Putnam - Chronology, Historical - 1833 - 374 pages
...on charge of treason, and dies in a monastery. "Had I but served God," said he on his death-bed, " as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my grey hairs." Sir Thomas More5 succeeds Wolsey as chancellor and prime minister. After... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1833 - 548 pages
...to the officer appointed to conduct him, " Had I but served God a» diligently as I have served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." There has been considerable disposition in later writers to vindicate the character of this minister;... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pages
...tempted to bestow upon the world, or any thing in it, that affection and service which are due to God. " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over, in my grey hairs." "It is incomparably better," says St. Augustine, "to shut the door of our heart against... | |
 | Edward Jesse - Animal behavior - 1835 - 352 pages
...Wolsey on his death bed. They were addressed, however, to Sir William Kingston : — ' Master Kingston, 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 diligent pains and study, not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1836 - 512 pages
...him, at once to guard and attend him, he spoke to him alittle before he expired to this effect : " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served...over in my gray hairs. But this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and study ; not regarding my service to God, but only to my prince."... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Avarice - 1836 - 328 pages
...worldly aggrandizement, a little before he died, declared with anguish, in the midst of his disgrace " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." In like manner, many a one at the hour of dissolution will have to exclaim, " If I had... | |
 | 1836 - 712 pages
...situation, is well known to every reader of English history. He said, a little before he expired, ' had I 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 mast receive for my indulgent pains and etudy, not regarding... | |
 | Church history - 1836 - 378 pages
...situation, is well known to every reader of English history. He said, a little before he expired, ' had I served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over u my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study,... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - Great Britain - 1836 - 484 pages
...be cited as eminently characteristic of the man. " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. This is the just reward that I must receive for the pains I have taken to do him service, not regarding... | |
 | William Angus (A.M.) - 1837 - 316 pages
...September, 1530. A little before his death, he said to Sir William Kingston, who had him in custody, "Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me up in my grey hairs; but this is the just reward I must receive for not regarding my service to God,... | |
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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. 
