 | Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann - 1844 - 360 pages
...accusations, but little more than a year. On his death-bed he said, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey i530- hairs." He died on the 29th of November, 1530. Christ Church College, Oxford, which he founded,... | |
 | John Foster - 1844 - 550 pages
...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 Bussorah, was... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 pages
...he spoke to him a tittle before he to this effecl : " Had l bul served God as ditigenlly as I lave served the king, he would not have given me over in my grey i'airs. But this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and study; not regarding... | |
 | 1844 - 588 pages
...spoke to 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... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1973 - 490 pages
...dying might serve as a text for the whole work : ' If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs.' That his readers may feel the full pathos of Wolsey's fall, he paints the magnificence of his life... | |
 | Henry Laurens, David R. Chesnutt, C. James Taylor - 2003 - 978 pages
...recorded the cardinal's dying comments, including: "If I had served (lod as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. "George Cavendish, The I jfe and Death ofCj1r. dinalWolay (Boston and New York. 1905), p. 182. SOURCE:... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 pages
...deathbed. As he lay dying, he is reported to have said: "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 studies that I have had to do him service,... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 pages
...Negotiations of Thomas Wolsey, quotes the Cardinal's own words - "Had I served God as diligently as I have served the King he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." How different the heavenly King treated His chosen Servant! Matthew's record of Christ's... | |
 | Leo F. Solt - 1990 - 285 pages
...Westminster to attend the court. On his deathbed he opined, "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."18 There seems to be very little doubt from all of the evidence that Catherine was still a virgin... | |
 | John Beadle, Germaine Fry Murray - 1996 - 390 pages
...(London, 1641; Wing STC C1619), sig. Fir: "And master Kingston, had I but served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over in my gray haires." Also, see The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey, ed. Richard S. Sylvester (Oxford: EETS,... | |
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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. 
