 | John Foster - 1844 - 550 Seiten
...enough for the present author to observe, after reciting the Cardinal's well-known expression, " Had I served God as diligently as I have done the king,...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... | |
 | John Lingard - 1844 - 422 Seiten
...and could not prevail. " And, master Kyngston, had I but served God as dili" gently as I have served the king, he would not have ", given me over in my grey hairs. But this is my just " reward for my pains and study, not regarding my " service to God, but only my... | |
 | 1844 - 292 Seiten
...consciousness of long neglected duties: — " Had I served my GOD as diligently as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs I" How noble was the demeanour on the scaffold of the illustrious Sir Thomas More ! the calm, yet intrepid,... | |
 | Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann - 1844 - 362 Seiten
...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 hairs." He died on the 29th of November, 1530. Christ Church College, Oxford, which he founded, has survived... | |
 | Henry Laurens, David R. Chesnutt, C. James Taylor - 2003 - 978 Seiten
...biographer George 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), p. 182. SOURCE:... | |
 | Herbert Lockyer - 244 Seiten
...mention if only for the confession he made on his deathbed. As he lay dying, he is reported to have said: "If I had served God as diligently as I have done...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... | |
 | James C. Bryant - 1984 - 194 Seiten
...correspondence with the French ambassador. His dying words have become immortal: "If I had served my God as diligently as I have done the King, He would not have given me over in my gray hairs."5 Meanwhile, with Wolsey out of the way, two other men rose to prominence under Henry's... | |
 | Leo F. Solt - 1990 - 285 Seiten
...Praemunire, died on his way from York to 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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 Seiten
...Raphael Holinshed Chronicles (1 577), one of Shakespeare's main sources, where they appear in the form, "If I had served God as diligently as I have done...He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." Luck 2 That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong. WILLIAM... | |
 | James Monti - 1997 - 508 Seiten
...life that he pronounced judgment upon the moral compromises he had made in his service to the King: "If I had served God as diligently as I have done the king, he would not have given me over in my gray hairs."33 The Cardinal faced death nobly, warning those about him both of the contagion of heresy... | |
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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. 
