| Philip Henry Stanhope (5th earl.) - 1844 - 628 sivua
...October the King highly gratified . the more serious portion of his people by a Pro1760. clamation "for the encouragement of piety and " virtue, and...punishing of vice, " profaneness, and immorality." Such Proclamations are worth little more than the paper they are written on when not consonant to the... | |
| Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1844 - 608 sivua
...highly gratified "VXXVTT • ' • • t the more serious portion of his people by a Pro1760. clamation "for the encouragement of piety and " virtue, and...punishing of vice, " profaneness, and immorality." Such Proclamations are worth little more than the paper they are written on when not consonant to the... | |
| William Powell Hunt - 1845 - 166 sivua
...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... | |
| 1845 - 558 sivua
...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... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 sivua
...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...and punishing of vice, profaneness, and immorality." There was an uncomfortable opinion abroad that the young king might be too subservient to his mother... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 476 sivua
...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...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 sivua
...the household and in the minor offices. One of the first acts of George III., was a proclamation " for the encouragement of piety and virtue, and for...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 - 1861 - 650 sivua
...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... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1792 - 950 sivua
...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... | |
| 1893 - 728 sivua
...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... | |
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