 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1832 - 610 pages
...Restauration, par un Homme d'Etat.' Par M. de Polignac. Paris, 1832. rpHE denunciation from Mount Sinai, that ' the sins of the fathers -*- shall be visited upon the children to the third and fourth generation,' explains the cause of all the revolutions by which society ever... | |
 | Mortimer Delmar (fict.name.) - 1838 - 1118 pages
...Vernon. Tell me what I have done to merit so harsh a sentence?" " You are innocent, young man ; but the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the...children, even to the third and fourth generation," he said solemnly; then, regard in g Mortimer with a look of mingled pity and indignation, continued... | |
 | 1841 - 470 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Freemasons. Grand Lodge of Iowa - 1915 - 666 pages
...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 - Humanities - 1862 - 488 pages
...and to insist more and more upon the certainty of their transmission. It has even been proposed to prohibit by law the intermarriage of persons who have...implanted in us before birth, shall be visited upon our innocent offspring, not for two or three generations only, but for all future time. Professor Bowen... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1862 - 474 pages
...and to insist more and more upon the certainty of their transmission. It has even been proposed to prohibit by law the intermarriage of persons who have...implanted in us before birth, shall be visited upon our innocent offspring, not for two or three generations only, but for all future time. Professor Bowen... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1848 - 310 pages
...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... | |
 | Emerson Bennett - American literature - 1853 - 344 pages
...Him whose finger had written upon tablets of stone, thousands of years before, that " The iniquities of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation" — a doom that even those who profanely deny it the great attribute of justice, cannot deny has sacred fulfillment.... | |
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Scripture, that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children, even to the third and fourth generation... 
