| Thomas Carlyle - 1884 - 516 pages
...condemnable at a single glance. It is nothing but the old story of Fate ; an invisible Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; a method almost as common and sovereign in German Art, at this day, as the method of steam... | |
| Helen Shipton - 1884 - 206 pages
...after me all the while, and boun' to be good to me, what does it mean when it says that He'll visit the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ? " lad's wide, hollow eyes, full of doubt and hope and fear. Then he turned again towards... | |
| 1886 - 820 pages
...pitiful and hopeless, are the outcome of apostasy and rejection of the light, in generations past. God " visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of them that hate him." Or, to listen again to Paul : " Even as they did not like to retain... | |
| John James Given - 1888 - 588 pages
...following in the footsteps of godless parents, suffer by the sad heritage of those parents' guilt ; for God "visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate him." It has been well said that " God visits the sins of the parents... | |
| Denis Hanan - 1889 - 126 pages
...witnessed for God amongst the captives. And their function was more than that of witness. God, who visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, to the third and fourth generation of them that hate Him, shows mercy to thousands of them that love Him and keep His commandments.... | |
| City of Glasgow society of social service - 1889 - 68 pages
...and self-reliance, can have free play in dealing with the poor children. That inexorable law which visits the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation, adds annually to our population thousands of little sufferers, who, if left entirely to... | |
| Arthur Schopenhauer - 1890 - 136 pages
...instead of the promise of innumerable posterity, the assurance of eternal life ; instead of visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations, the Holy Spirit which overshadows all. We see, then, that the doctrines of the Old Testament... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1897 - 660 pages
...condemnable at a single glance. It is nothing but the old story of Fate ; an invisible Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; a method almost as common and sovereign in German Art, at this day, as the method of steam... | |
| 1899 - 848 pages
...of darkness and oppression, to centuries of misery and shame. And the stern voice spoke again : "The sins of the fathers upon the children ... to the third and fourth generation." Then the four dead bodies flashed up again into the Emperor's sight, side by side, their... | |
| Thomas Carlyle - 1899 - 546 pages
...condemnable at a single glance. It is nothing but the old story of Fate ; an invisible Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation ; a method almost as common and sovereign in German Art, at this day, as the method of steam... | |
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