 | 1845 - 558 pages
...be terminated by the death of the king, but that they should hold office with entire independence. A proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing vice, profaneness, and immorality, was issued soon after the accession of George HI., and certainly... | |
 | William Powell Hunt - 1845 - 164 pages
...June 25th, 1786, for the Benefit of a Charity School. 8. A SERMON, occasioned by his Majesty's late Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing vice, profaneness, and immorality. A few copies of the undermentioned Works may be had of the Publishers... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1846 - 472 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...and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality." There was an uncomfortable opinion abroad that the young king might be too subservient to his mother... | |
 | Samuel Davies, Albert Barnes - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 512 pages
...favorable 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 - Great Britain - 1851 - 476 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...and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality." There was an uncomfortable opinion abroad that the young king might be too subservient to his mother... | |
 | David Hume - 1859 - 242 pages
...exception of a few in the household and in the minor offices. One of the first acts of George III., was a proclamation " for the encouragement of piety and...and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality." This was naturally looked upon as a token of his majesty's virtue and devotion, which view was borne... | |
 | 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... | |
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A Proclamation for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for preventing and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality. 
