 | Royal Robbins - 1833 - 676 pages
...soon afterwards, uttering in the anguish of his soul, the never to be forgotten words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs." Anne Boleyn, in less than three years, was condemned and beheaded. After... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...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." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, in... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...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." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, in... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...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." This remarkable and heartfelt reference to an existence spent upon the slippery ground of courts, m... | |
 | George Palmer Putnam - 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... | |
 | 1834 - 444 pages
...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 even just anger,... | |
 | Edward Jesse - 1835 - 352 pages
...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,...over in my grey hairs. But ' this is the just reward that I must receive for ' my diligent pains and study, not regarding my ' service to God, but only... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pages
...see the matter against me how it is framed ; but if I had served God as dttigcuf'i* ss I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive formy worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
 | 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,...over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I mast receive for my indulgent pains and etudy, not regarding my service to God, but only to... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1836 - 328 pages
...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 been as anxious... | |
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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. 
