 | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY - 1858 - 448 pages
...fellow-citizens that the day on which the Boston port-act was to take effect should be set apart uas a day of fasting and prayer, devoutly to implore the...constituents ; and Mason charged his little household of sons and daughters to keep the day strictly, and attend church clad in mourning. This was the last... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - 1863 - 862 pages
...heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war; to give us one heart and one mind, firmly to oppose, by all just...and proper means, every injury to American rights; and that the minds Of his majesty and his parliamenl may be inspired from above with wisdom, moderation,... | |
 | Annie Emma Challice - 1863 - 384 pages
...averting the heavy calamity which threatened destruction to their civil liberties, and to give them one heart and one mind firmly to oppose, by all just...and proper means, every injury to American rights." Amongst those who fasted and who prayed in church upon that day was George Washington, the future hero... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1864 - 328 pages
...which threatened destruction to their civil rights, and the evils of a civil war — and to give them one heart and one mind firmly to oppose by all just...proper means every injury to American rights. The royal governor of Virginia, Lord Dunmore, on hearing of the passage of this resolution, immediately... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1864 - 842 pages
...heavy calamity which threatens destruction to our civil rights, and the evils of civil war, to give us one heart and one mind firmly to oppose, by all just...and proper means, every injury to American rights, and that the minds of his Majesty and his Parliament may be inspired from above with wisdom, moderation,... | |
 | Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...to their oivil rinhts and the evils of civil war, and to give them "one heart and on* mind •Irmly to oppose, by all just and proper means, every injury to American rightc." This action, an might have been and doubtless was expected, brought down upon thcm th- dit... | |
 | William Read Staples - 1870 - 778 pages
...destruction to their civil rights, and the evils of civil war ; to give them one heart and one mind to oppose, by all just and proper means, every injury to American rights." The Governor immediately dissolved the Assembly. The greater part of the members assembled on the 27th,... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 156 pages
...Virginia House of Burgesses passed some resolutions in which they implored the Divine power " to give them one heart and one mind, firmly to oppose, by all just...and proper means, every injury to American rights." On the publication of these resolutions, the royal governor of Virginia, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore,... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - 1871 - 148 pages
...Virginia Honse of Burgesses passed some resolutions in which they implored the Divine power " to give them one heart and one mind, firmly to oppose, "by all...and proper means, every injury to American rights." On the publication of these resolutions, the royal governor of Virginia, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore,... | |
 | Edmund Ollier - 1874 - 660 pages
...were not less religious, in their way, than the Puritans of New England. They prayed that God would " give to the American people one heart and one mind,...and proper means, every injury to American rights." But the invitation to join in this earnest prayer was arranged between the individual members, and... | |
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House as a Day of Fasting, Humiliation, and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine Interposition for averting the heavy Calamity, which... 
