Henry Viii/final Years - 1540%e2%80%931547

Famous quotes containing the words viii, final and/or years:

    Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength
    because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the
    avenger.
    —Bible: Hebrew Psalm VIII (l. VIII, 2)

    With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for—they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and falsehood?
    William Hazlitt (1778–1830)