 | David Stewart - 1822 - 658 sider
...the successors of the wicked, the oppressor, and ungodly. * These, with a belief in ghosts, dreams, * The belief that the punishment of the cruelty, oppression,...as a curse on his children, to the third and fourth generation, was not confined to the common people. All ranks were influenced by it, that if the curse... | |
 | David Stewart - 1822 - 552 sider
...education is founded on such principles, the happiest effects are to be expected. - • The belief that punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct...as a curse on his children, to the third and fourth generation, was not confined to the common people. All ranks were influenced by it, believing that... | |
 | 1825 - 726 sider
...punishment of the cruelty, oppression. 1825,] OBITUARY. — Lieut.-coL Downman. — Lieut. H. War&e. 3"5 oppression, or misconduct of an individual, descended...as a curse on his children to. the third and fourth generation. In 1771 he was ordered to superintend the execution of the sentence of a court martial... | |
 | 1825 - 710 sider
...manners. There are treasured anecdotes in his family (but they would carry this memoir beyond ill proper oppression, or misconduct of an individual, descended as a curse on his children to (he third and fourth generation. In 1771 be was ordered to superintend the execution of the sentence... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 884 sider
...massacre of Glenco. Colonel Campbell entertained the belief, then universal in the Highlands, that punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct...as a curse on his children to the third and fourth generation. In 1/71 he was ordered to superintend the execution of the sentence of a court martial... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 918 sider
...Colonel Campbell entertained the belief, then universal in the Highlands, that punishment of thecruelty, oppression, or misconduct of an individual, descended...as a curse on his children to the third and fourth generation. In 1/71 he was ordered to superintend the execution of the sentence of a court martial... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 sider
...Sketches of the Highlands, that the belief that punishment for cruelty, oppression, or misconduct, in an individual, descended as a curse on his children, to the third and fourth generation, was not confined to the common people. All ranks were influenced by this belief. The late... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1836 - 480 sider
...the age in which they lived, and the universal execration of posterity.1 1 [" Among the Highlanders, the belief that the punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct of an individual deecended as a curse on his children, to the thitd and fourth generation, was not confined to the common... | |
 | William Beattie - 1838 - 336 sider
...military at the massacre above related, retained, through a period of thirty years' service in the 42d regiment, the belief that the punishment of the cruelty,...supernumerary captain in the above regiment, and retired on half-pay. He then entered the marines, and in 1762 received his majority with the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel,... | |
 | James Browne - 1838 - 622 sider
...perfect accordance with the Decalogue, — awaits the descendants of the oppressor. " The belief that punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct...as a curse on his children to the third and fourth generation, was not confined to Ihe common people. All ranks were influenced by it, believing that... | |
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Highlanders, the belief that the punishment of the cruelty, oppression, or misconduct of an individual descended as a curse on his children, to the third and fourth generation, was not confined to the common people. All ranks were influenced by it... 
