| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle, George Walter Prothero - 1832 - 634 Seiten
...M. de Polignac. Paris, 1832. rPHE denunciation from Mount Sinai, that ' the sins of the fathers -1- shall be visited upon the children to the third and...Days. Look at it without reference to this principle, and it would appear the most causeless of all revolutions, as certainly it was the most unprovoked.... | |
| Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1834 - 574 Seiten
...occurrences, that had been slowly tending to this end. It was a peculiar fulfilment of the declaration, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, until the third and fourth generation. It presents the spectacle of a nation, sitting in severe and... | |
| 1841 - 470 Seiten
...commission that I've gaessed the truth.' 'Poor boy !' exclaimed Mrs. M'Shane; 'well, the codlmandments say that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children. What can be done, M'Shane '' 'Nolhing at present ; it would injure Joey to raise a hue and cry after... | |
| 1870 - 846 Seiten
...all the more bound to do him justice." " My dear mother ! — I do indeed understand!" " It is said that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation. But that has always seemed to me a hard saying ; and it is not for a mother to knowingly... | |
| Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1915 - 666 Seiten
...show the effect of the debauchery of the parents. Our state school at Redfleld proves the prophesy that 'the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children.' Within that institution there are 250 inmates and within our state over 1100. These facts should touch... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1862 - 488 Seiten
...physiological fatalism. It rests upon a perversion of one of the darkest sayings of the old Jewish Scripture, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation ; — a seemingly harsh doctrine, though, in the meaning which... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1862 - 474 Seiten
...physiological fatalism. It rests upon a perversion of one of the darkest sayings of the old Jewish Scripture, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation ; — a seemingly harsh doctrine, though, in the meaning which... | |
| Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1848 - 310 Seiten
...palace on the 6th of October, 1789, and to fulfil (as has often been fulfilled) the denunciation " That the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children." Evil deeds must beget evil consequences ; and in this world, but in this world only, the innocent often... | |
| Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury - 1855 - 332 Seiten
...Save from your income; deny yourself somewhat, and make a provision for her. You know it is written, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children; which comes, as I take it, in the shape of natural consequences." " I am in a cleft stick, any way,"... | |
| Mrs. E. Burrows - 1861 - 408 Seiten
...nations, as well as in matters belonging only to private families, the Word of the Lord holds good, — that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto the third and fourth generation ; and instead of resenting the dislike and jealousy with which... | |
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