 | Alfred Blomfield (bp. of Colchester.) - 1871 - 370 pages
...Scripture does, side by side; and I would make this my position—that they are both true, and both just; that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children, and that it is just that they should be; and yet that the son does not bear the iniquity of the father,... | |
 | Hugh Miller Thompson - 1872 - 374 pages
...childsouls, that died before a fallen nature showed its fall in act, can even they be spared, when we know that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children, and the mother by her sin hands down to the daughter her own evil taint ? Ah, we are so bound and tied... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1876 - 352 pages
...and distant than those of physical conditions. It is in moral, far more than in physical diseases, that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children ; and history is the record of vicious national habits or tendencies working themselves out to their fatal... | |
 | 1876 - 540 pages
...of crime. And so by a natural law it is, and not by any arbitrary interposition of Divine vengeance, that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children." And he adds : " The man who inherits from his parents an impulsive aud easily tempted nature, and AN INERT... | |
 | Henry Wace - 1877 - 340 pages
...and distant than those of physical conditions. It is in moral, far more than in physical diseases, that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children ; and history is the record of vicious national habits or tendencies working themselves out to their fatal... | |
 | 1878 - 686 pages
...not quite so orthodox as I could wish,' said Lady Machell with a courtly smile. ' In my Bible I read that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children, and that a, son should obey his parents. You perhaps have an expurgated edition?' ' I have my own,' said... | |
 | Belgravia - 1878 - 546 pages
...not quite so orthodox as I could wish,' said Lady Machell with a courtly smile. ' In my Bible I read that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children, and that a son should obey his parents. You perhaps have an expurgated edition?' ' 1 have my own,' said... | |
 | William Leonard Courtney - 1900 - 156 pages
...if we take it from another side of science — the science of biology — there is reason to suppose that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children, and that many men and women begin their careers crippled and maimed by a hereditary taint. Or once more,... | |
 | Sydney Herbert Mellone - 1902 - 356 pages
...rooted in man's nature is through effects of environment and social and physical inheritance. We know that the sins of the fathers are visited on the children and in them ; we know that there are forms of companionship and association which draw out the bad and... | |
 | 1913 - 916 pages
...convey concretely to his auditors through the particular medium of his story. Thus, the theme of Glwsts is that 'the sins of the fathers are visited on the children, and the theme of Tlie Pigeon is that the wild spirits and the tame spirits of the world can never understand... | |
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... or truth, of human life — such a truth as might be formulated critically in an abstract and general proposition — which the dramatist contrives to convey concretely to his auditors through the particular medium of his story. Thus, the theme of... 
