 | Great Britain - 1809 - 598 pages
...hours-together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail: And, Master Kingston, if I had but served God, as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have given me over ill my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for my diligent pains and study,... | |
 | Harleian miscellany - 1808 - 656 pages
...together, to persuade him from his will and appetite, but could not prevail: And, Master Kingston, if I had but served God, as diligently as I have served the King, he would not h«ve given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must receive for ray diligent... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1810 - 332 pages
...before him for three hours together, to persuade him from his w-ill and appetite, but could notprevail. 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 that Imust receive for my indulgent pains and study; not regarding... | |
 | David Hume - Great Britain - 1810 - 514 pages
...sometimes three hours together, to persuade him " from his will and appetite ; but could not prevail: 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 that I must receive " for my indulgent pains and study, not... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...sometimes three hours together, to persuade him from his will and appetite ; but could not prevail. 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 that I must receive for my indulgent pains and study, not regarding... | |
 | Antoine-François marquis de Bertrand de Moleville, Antoine-François Bertrand-de-Molleville - Great Britain - 1812 - 502 pages
...William Kingston, constable of the tower, who had him in his custody, among other things, he said, " Had I but served God, as diligently as I have served the king, vox,, n. H he would not have given me over in my grey hairs. But this is the just reward that I must... | |
 | 1817 - 436 pages
...the misappropriation of his time and talents, a little before his dissolution he exclaimed, " Had I served God as diligently as I have served the King, he would not have forsaken me in my grey hairs ; but this is the just reward I must receive for my indulgent pains and... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1816 - 462 pages
...his blind devotion to his prince. " Had I served God," said he, a short time before his death, •• as diligently as I have served the king, he would not have forsaken me in my gray hairs; but this is the just reward I must receive for my pains and study, in... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...bestow upon the world, or any thing in it, that affection and service which are due to God. — '. Had I but served God as diligently as I . " have served...the king, HE would not have given me " over in my gray hairs." 5. To those, who would win men to religion by hre and faggot, may be applied the remark... | |
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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 gray hairs. 
