 | Thomas Peregrine Courtenay - 1840 - 354 pages
...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 this time. * In... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1840 - 580 pages
...his will and appetite, but could not prevail. Had 1 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 that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 476 pages
...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 gray hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study ; not regarding my... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1840 - 228 pages
...felt his ingratitude and desertion. "Had I served my God," said he, "as diligently as I have served my King, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." Thus died this famous Cardinal, than whom few ever attained to so -great a height, or fell i rom it... | |
 | LADY. - 1841 - 200 pages
...lamenting his choice in his last moments, exclaimed, "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 that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding my... | |
 | 1842 - 820 pages
...returned he, ' I see the matter against me how it is framed. HAD I BUT SERVED MY GOD AS DILIGENTLY AS I HAVE DONE THE KING, HE WOULD NOT HAVE GIVEN ME OVER IN MY GREY HAIRS.' " After a short interval, he said, ' Master Kingston, farewell. I can no more. My time... | |
 | Francis Charles Massingberd - 1842 - 458 pages
...which Shakspeare has embodied in a speech to Cromwell : — " 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... | |
 | 1844 - 588 pages
...him a little 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... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 550 pages
...observe, after reciting the Cardinal's well-known expression, " Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs—" " This sentiment seems to be common to fallen ministers. When Samrah, the governor of... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - 1845 - 672 pages
...Kingston, 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. I pray you, with all my heart, to have me most humbly commended unto his royal Majesty.... | |
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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. 
