 | James Comper Gray - 1880 - Počet stránok 416
...the highest round of ambition 's ladder, in the evening of life bitterly exclaimed, " Would that I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my king ! He would not have abandoned me in my old age." The illustrious statesman,- William Pitt, the favourite of king and people,... | |
 | J R. Yarnold - 1880 - Počet stránok 122
...to meet the charge when he sickened and died, Nov. 28, 1530. 318. His dying words were, " Had I but served my God as faithfully as I have served my king, he would not have deserted me in my grey hairs." 319. Wolsey, to show his sincerity and innocence of the first charge,... | |
 | Theron Brown - 1881 - Počet stránok 160
...have given way. He never gave himself cause to mourn, as the dying Cardinal Wolsey did, " Oh, that I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my king ! " Sunday was generally a feast-day with Frederick when he was at home in his capital, and on one... | |
 | Charles Dent Bell - 1881 - Počet stránok 90
...sovereign ; and as his latter end drew near, he uttered the words, as true as they are pathetic, " If I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my king, He would not have cast me off in my old age." Nor would He. " I," He says, " will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."... | |
 | Eleanor A. Bulley - 1881 - Počet stránok 312
...tell you his last words, and then I think you will find out for yourself. _He died saying, " Had I but served my God as faithfully as I have served my King, He would not have given me ove1 in my grey hairs." There are two lighthouses here, and the harbour is fortified. Most... | |
 | 1881 - Počet stránok 602
...short lime l.efore he expired, he said to the officer who guarded him: "0, had I but served my C!od as faithfully as I have served my king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs." He died shortly after, in all the pangs of remorse, and left a life... | |
 | Ebenezer Wilmshurst - 1882 - Počet stránok 136
...broken-hearted old man in his banishment. Listen to his tremulous words as they fall from his lips : " If I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my king, He would not have forsaken me in my grey hairs." No earthly honours fell to the lot of young Timothy, but he obtained... | |
 | Thomas J. Livesey - 1882 - Počet stránok 232
...Sacraments, he died in great penitence. those most true words, which will always be remembered : " Oh, if I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my king, He would not have given me over in my grey hairs." Shakespeare, in one of his most beautiful historical plays, gives... | |
 | Ward Marcus and co, ltd - 1883 - Počet stránok 264
...to lay my bones among you." And there he died, sighing in his last moments, " If I had DYING WOLSEY. served my God as faithfully as I have served my King, He would not have thus forsaken me." 4. Thomas Cromwell, who had been in Wolsey's service, now took the first position at... | |
 | England - 1884 - Počet stránok 268
...come," he said, " to lay my bones among you." And there he died, sighing in his last moments, " If I had served my God as faithfully as I have served my King, He would not have thus forsaken me." 4. Thomas Cromwell, who had been in Wolsey's service, now took the first position at... | |
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Had I served my God as faithfully as I have served my king, he would not thus have forsaken me in my old age" The character you appear to us in, is truly ridiculous. 
