 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 278 pàgines
...of an inordinate ambition ; " Had I," said he, " but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." MARRIAGE OF AHNE BOLEYN. 167 After the adjournment of the legatine court Henry, although still determined... | |
 | Thomas Bayley Fox - 1836 - 282 pàgines
...of an inordinate ambition ; " Had I," said he, " but served my God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." After the adjournment of the legatine court Henry, although still determined to effect his purpose,... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1837 - 486 pàgines
...what matter ye put in his head, for you shall never put it out again. And this I will say, that had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over thus in my gray hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive for all my worldly diligence... | |
 | Rev. Molesworth - 1837 - 424 pàgines
...Kingston, I see the matter against me, how it is framed ; but, if I had served God as diligently as I have the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." Oh, what a lesson does this declaration read to us, upon the vanity and folly of setting our trust... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pàgines
...testimony to the vanity of worldly ambition, and of seeking human favour. He said to his attendants, " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the...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 have had to... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1839 - 1266 pàgines
...most memorable, and highly instructive to all classes of hypocritical professors of religion — " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the...he would not have given me over in my grey, hairs. This is the just reward that I must receive for the pains I have taken to do him service, not regarding... | |
 | 1839 - 454 pàgines
...servants and physician never left him, and then it was that he was heard to say, "If I had served my God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." And these were among his last words, for at eight o'clock that same night the poor cardinal expired.... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 564 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 354 pàgines
...as addressed to Mr. Kingston, the captain of the guard, who attended upon him after his arrest : " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."* It is difficult to account for this arrest on a charge of high treason, precisely at... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 326 pàgines
...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 been as anxious... | |
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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. 
