...The House of Commons has, in an auspicious h'o'ur, resolved, and it can never be too often repeated, that the influence of the crown has increased,. is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Influence is more dangerous than prerogative.... It is a subtle poison that acts unseen....

...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most serious and earnest attention. I, who think the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, am a friend to frequent appeals to the people, but not by means of disssolution. LETPABLIAMEXTS,...

...will not differ from any as to the principle, though copied from none. My first resolution will be, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished :" my second, " that it is competent for this house to reform the civil list, or any...

...liberties and constitution of this country, gentlemen might then find it necessary to come again to vote, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." He was ready to allow, that from the present state of the company's affairs, some regulations...

...on due and mature deliberation that honourable House resolved: ' 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 this House, to examine into, and to correct abuses in, the...

...of any thing which seemed likely to be attended by this effect, because I am one of those who think that the influence of the crown "has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" but in what way Savings-Banks are liable to this charge, I am at a loss to conceive....

...Mr. Dunning's celebrated motion in the House of Commons (which is in the recollection of all of us) that the "influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."* Did not thus a regular vote of the House of Commons say as much as this hand-bill...

...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr. Dunning'S orMr.Burke's famous motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great...

...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 it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating...

...asleep with a powerful opiate. If there be a time, in which the senate of a free country has declared that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished; and if, instead of a conseqnent diminution, there be an evident increase of that influence...