 | Ellen Henrietta Ranyard - 1854 - 522 pagina’s
...persecutor on his lips. After the well-known words, " Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs," he said, " Commend me to his royal majesty, and request him, in God's name, that he be on the watch... | |
 | Richard S. Sylvester, Davis P. Harding - 1962 - 284 pagina’s
...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. Howbeit this is the just reward that I must receive for my worldly diligence and pains... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - 1973 - 490 pagina’s
...Wolsey 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... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - 1968 - 568 pagina’s
...Thomas Wolsey (i473?-i53o) said to Sir William Kingston, "Had I served God as diligently as I have the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs." In Shakespeare's Henry Vili, Cardinal Wolsey says to his servant, "Had I but served my God with half... | |
 | Henry Laurens, David R. Chesnutt, C. James Taylor - 2003 - 978 pagina’s
...Cavendish 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),... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 1988 - 372 pagina’s
...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 application... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pagina’s
...words" to the captain of the guard, Sir William Kingston: "Had I served God as diligently as I have the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs" (Shakespeare, Henry VIII IH.ii.455-57). 10.17 (219:20-21). the wife of Mr David Sheehy MP - Bessie... | |
 | K.P. Bahadur - 1990 - 414 pagina’s
...recalls the famous words of Cardinal Wolsey, 'If I had served my god with half the zeal I served my king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs. We cannot however take seriously Deva's remark in his book that despite Keshavadäsa's ascendancy amongst... | |
 | Leo F. Solt - 1990 - 285 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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. 
