 | Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...said he, " 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... | |
 | 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;... | |
 | 1835 - 432 pages
...quoth he, 'I 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... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1836 - 484 pages
...words may 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... | |
 | John Britton - 1836 - 442 pages
...buried. His last words are reputed to have been these : — " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs ; but this is the just reward that I must receive for the pains and study that I have had to do him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 512 pages
...him alittle before he expired to this effect : " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. But this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and study ; not regarding my service... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 248 pages
...he, ' I see the matter against me how it is fram • ed ; but if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in mg greg hairs. Howbeit, this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains... | |
 | 1839 - 496 pages
...ambition, and of seeking human favour. He said to his attendants, " If I had served God as diligently as I have done 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, that I... | |
 | Charles Henry Timperley - 1839 - 1266 pages
...to all classes of hypocritical professors of religion — " 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 is the just reward that I must receive for the pains I have taken to do him service,... | |
 | 1839 - 454 pages
...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... | |
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Well, well, Master Kingston," quoth he, "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. 
