 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1809 - 860 pages
...John Dorrell. I am amazed at this Estimate as much as any man. The objection, want of success — But when ' the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge.' The last reigns made the French so great, that \ve cannot now pull them down. Cromwell neglected F.urope... | |
 | William Miller, Joshua Vaughan Himes - Adventists - 1842 - 324 pages
...high birth, while the low and base-born were treated with total neglect. For the proverb, " Because the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge," had been much used in Israel at that day. 4. They had got to themselves itching ears, being more pleased... | |
 | Frederick Denison Maurice - Bible - 1853 - 496 pages
...argument which proved that a son was not to die for the iniquity of his father, that the proverb, " If the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge," was a lying proverb ? How was it a preparation for the personal sorrows which the prophet was to bear... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1869 - 380 pages
...says the king, Sciatis nos intentu Dei et pro salute animce nostrce et antecessorum omnium et h&redum meorum . . . concessisse, etc. To the modern mind,...keep pace with it. But there is a noble credulity, whicli may be admired even if it neither can nor should be emulated ; and that is a noble credulity... | |
 | John Ruskin - Art, Greek - 1869 - 200 pages
...sins. The time of their visitation will come, and that inevitably; for, it is always true, that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge. And for the individual, as soon as you have learned to read, you may, as I said, know him to the heart's... | |
 | John Frederick Denison Maurice - 1871 - 530 pages
...argument which proved that a son was not to die for the iniquity of his father, that the proverb, " if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge," was a lying proverb ? How was it a preparation for the personal sorrows which the prophet was to bear... | |
 | 1872 - 932 pages
...from Mount Sinai ; and the experience of every day attests the fact that, in a multitude of ways, " when the fathers have eaten sour grapes the children's teeth are set on edge." This is indeed a proverb with many sides.* We see how it may be applied to inherited disadvantages... | |
 | Science - 1879 - 978 pages
...process of degeneracy until it becomes extinct. It was no mere dream of prophetic frenzy that when tht fathers have eaten sour grapes the children's teeth are set on edge, noi was it a meaningless, menace that the sins of the fathers shall be visited upon the children unto... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1874 - 232 pages
...sins. The time of their visitation will come, and that inevitably; for, it is always true, that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge. And for the individual, as soon as you have learned to read, ' you may, as I said, know him to the... | |
 | John Ruskin - English literature - 1874 - 232 pages
...sins. The time of their visitation will come, and that inevitably; for, it is always ' true, that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge. And for the individual, as soon as you have learned to read, you may, as I said, know him to the heart's... | |
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The time of their visitation will come, and that inevitably; for, it is always true, that if the fathers have eaten sour grapes, the children's teeth are set on edge. 
