 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 422 страници
...parties; while agreements beget personal union and party confederacies. XXXIII. Men who honestly think that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, and who believe that civil liberty is the greatest social blessing, will vote on all... | |
 | 1826 - 972 страници
...on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] 140 141 house to correct the civil list expenditure carried, xxiii... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 страници
...for taking into consideration the petitions for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, '' That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which ensued upon it, the lord advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1828 - 700 страници
...interesting detail, in a series of acute and powerful reasoning, he drew the following conclusion : " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" and proposed this allegation us a resolution to be voted by the house. Such a proposition... | |
 | 1829 - 838 страници
...resolutions were passed by the house on that ever memorable day: — 1. — "That it is necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. 2. — " That it is competent to the House of Commons to examine into and to correct... | |
 | Auguste-Louis baron de Staël-Holstein - 1830 - 480 страници
...manisfestation of certain senr timents, as for instance the celebrated motion of Mr. Dunning, in 1780: " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." But as what concerns us is to compare the proceedings we follow in the discussion of... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 страници
...following resolutions : — "That it is the opinion of this committee, that it is necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" and, " That it is competent to the house to examine into and to correct abuses in... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1831 - 620 страници
...of the nation, but as essentially the same, when clearly understood. If the well-known resolution, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, had been earned in an Irish House of Commons, instead of an English one, it would have... | |
 | 1831 - 624 страници
...of the nation, but as essentially the same, when clearly understood. If the well-known resolution, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, had been carried in an Irish House of Commons, instead of an English one, it would have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 страници
...been vexed by all the turbulence of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the house of commons, ' That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ?'" JOHNSON. " Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
