| Charles MacFarlane - 1845 - 556 Seiten
...prevail. And, Master Kingston, this I will say — 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 cardinal expired as the clock was striking eight, on the morning of the 29th of November, in the... | |
| Christopher Anderson - 1845 - 672 Seiten
...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. And say furthermore,... | |
| Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 860 Seiten
...uttering as he expired these memorable words : " If I had served God as diligently as I have done the King, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs."* It fell to the lot of Cranmer, who was raised to the Senteaa dignity of Archbishop and Legate, to pronounce... | |
| Thomas Dick - 1845 - 752 Seiten
...with anguish, in the midst of his disgrace, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have seryed 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... | |
| 1845 - 762 Seiten
...prevail. And, Master Kingston, this I will say — Had I but served God as diligently as I have served the king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs. Howbeit, this is my just reward for my pains and diligence, not regarding my service to God, but only... | |
| Derbyshire Archaeological Society - 1907 - 898 Seiten
...the Cardinal : " Well, well, Master Kingston, if I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my grey hairs." It has been supposed that Shakespeare must have read this biography, for he quotes this sentence almost... | |
| Richard S. Sylvester, Davis P. Harding - 1962 - 284 Seiten
...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. Howbeit this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains that I have... | |
| A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1973 - 490 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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