 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 650 pages
...Pitt coal?" On the 31st of October George highly gratified the serious part of the nation by issuing a proclamation " For the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing vice, profaneness, and immorality ; " and though his example in some of these respects had not been... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1861 - 644 pages
...Pitt coal?': On the 31st of October George highly gratified the serious part of the nation by issuing a proclamation " For the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing an<l punishing vice, profaneness, and immorality ; " and though his example in some of these respects... | |
 | Samuel Davies - Presbyterian Church - 1864 - 664 pages
...favourable anticipations. But since I have found that one of the very first acts of government was " A proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing of vice, profaneness, and immorality," the transport of my mind would almost constrain me to put on... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 pages
...his great and peremptory colleague, Mr. Pitt. Almost the first act of government of the new king was a proclamation " For the encouragement of piety and...virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profanenesa, and immorality." There was an uncomfortable opinion abroad that the young king might be... | |
 | 1881 - 978 pages
...of a foot-note which records the millennium foretold by one of the very first acts of George III.: " A Proclamation for the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, and for Preventing of Vice, Profanoness, aud Immorality." The preacher, forgetting that ho has been depicting the lamented... | |
 | 1893 - 728 pages
...House, and the next day he was proclaimed as King. Before the month was over he had put forth another proclamation, ' for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of profanencss and immorality.' Nor was this a mere form. He tried to live up to it, and many years after... | |
 | Charlotte Mary Yonge - Great Britain - 1899 - 360 pages
...House, and the next day he was proclaimed as King. Before the month was over he had put forth another proclamation, " for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of profaneness and immorality." Nor was this a mere form. He tried to live up to it, and many years after... | |
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A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality. 
