| John Galt - 1832 - 320 pages
...composed eye, for it's all in the ordained course and order of things wherein the ' sins of the fathers are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation,' and he is only of the first." " True, Miss Ruart — but reflect how little he has been prepared for that... | |
| Great Britain - 1859 - 802 pages
...lie—that just as much at the present day as four thousand years ago, the iniquities of the parents are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation ; and will be so for ever, unless those who strive to be fellow-workers with Christ and God, do their very... | |
| Charles Kingsley - Religion - 1867 - 346 pages
...tendencies. And they know, too, how the sins of a parent, or of a grandparent, or even a great-grandparent, are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation; and they Bay, ' It is a law of nature :' and so it is. But the laws of nature are the laws of God who made... | |
| Aeschylus - 1868 - 308 pages
...would interfere with the calm bliss of the Olympian Gods. At first their office seems simply terrible. The sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. An Ate cleaves to the house, thirsting for blood, breeding new evils, making sin at once... | |
| 1872 - 838 pages
...would strike, and that it would pass by the innocent heads of my wife and child. But the curse is, " the sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation ;" that fearful text of Scripture that has so often made me shudder, lest it might have... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1872 - 858 pages
...would strike, and that it would pass by the innocent heads of my -wife and child. But the curse is, " the sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation ; " that fearful text of Scripture that has so often made me shudder, lest it might have... | |
| 1872 - 894 pages
...would strike, and that it would pass by the innocent heads of my wife and child. But the curse is, ' the sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation ; ' that fearful text of Scripture that has so often made me shudder, lest it might have... | |
| E C W.van Walrée - 1873 - 428 pages
...would strike, and that it would pass hy the innocent heads of my wife and child. But the curse is, ' the sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation ; ' that fearful text of Scripture which has often made me shudder, lest it might have itsfulfilmcut... | |
| Christine Müller - Dutch fiction - 1873 - 212 pages
...would strike, and that it would pass by the innocent heads of my wife and child. But the curse is, ' The sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation ;' that fearful text of Scripture which has often made me shudder, lest it might have its... | |
| Joseph Mortimer Granville - Ethics - 1878 - 106 pages
...comfort his children — to act as guardian angels or tempting demons in some other sphere. In this way the sins of the father are visited on the children to the third and fourth generation. It is difficult to sketch the Spirit-world without seeming to paint from fancy instead... | |
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