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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. "
The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository - Page 262
1851
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the ..., Volume 10

John Aikin - 1815 - 506 pages
...Tower, relative to the King, and his 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...
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The New evangelical magazine and theological review, Volume 3

1817 - 436 pages
...the misappropriation of his time and talents, a little before his dissolution he exclaimed, " Had I served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have forsaken me in my grey hairs ; but this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and...
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The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent ..., Volume 1

Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 606 pages
...three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail. Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King,...over in my grey hairs : but this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only to...
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The British Nepos; or, Youth's mirror: lives of illustrious Britons

William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...his blind devotion to his prince. " Had I served God," said he, a short time before his death, •• as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs; but this is the just reward I must receive for my pains and study, in...
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The history of England, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the revolution ...

David Hume - 1818 - 488 pages
...hours together, to per" suade him from his will and appetite ; but could " not prevail : Had I but served God as diligently " as I have served the King,...over in my grey hairs. But this is the " just reward that I must receive for my indulgent " pains and study, not regarding my service to God, " but only...
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The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are ..., Volume 1

George Horne, William Jones - 1818 - 570 pages
...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 gray hairs." 5. To those, who would win men to religion by hre and faggot, may be applied the remark...
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The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar, to the ..., Volume 4

David Hume - 1819 - 406 pages
...three hours together, to persuade him from' his will and appetite ; but could not prevail : had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king,...over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that 1 must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my service to God, but only tomy...
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The Chronicle of the Kings of England: From William the Norman to the Death ...

Robert Dodsley, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1821 - 304 pages
...he eitpired, he said to the king's officers, who stood near his hed : " If I had served God half so diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in ror grey hairs." Thus died the famous Cardinal Wolsey. His greatest crime was his amhition, and it...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 5

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 pages
...be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study, that I have...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 5

1822 - 384 pages
...be against me ; how it is framed I knowe not. But if I had served God, as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey haires. But this is the just rewarde that I must receive, for my diligent pains and study, that I have...
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