 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 páginas
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1831 - 542 páginas
...raised up a formidable opposition. (April 6th.) At length Mr. Dunning moved his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which was carried by a majority of twenty-eight votes : but a second resolution, designed... | |
 | 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Parliament lists - 1832 - 1026 páginas
...between the representative and constituent bodies is essentially necessary, have come to a resolution, " that it is necessary to declare, that the influence...the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." less judicious. In the midst of a war, in which nothing its unhappy circumstances)... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 464 páginas
...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr. Dunning' s or Mr. 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... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer (i.e., Antonio Pablo) - 1833 - 598 páginas
...regulation of his majesty's civil establishment"; and Dunning moved, " that it is necessary to declare, 1st. that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ; 2dly. that it is competent for parliament to examine and correct the abuses and the... | |
 | 1834 - 1064 páginas
...weight of the prerogative, but the usurpation of an Oligarchy. No man is now foolish enough to assert, that the influence of the Crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" the popular outcry which carried through the Revolution of 1832, ¡8 that " the influence of the Peers... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - 1834 - 168 páginas
...Resolution, introduced into the House of Commons by Mr Dunning in 1780, during the War of Independence. ' The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ! ' A Resolution, which even the Speaker, Sir Fletcher Norton, supported ; and which... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 páginas
...be regarded as the greatest of his parliamentary efforts, " that it is the opinion of this committee that it is necessary to declare that the influence...the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the session of 1780-81, the legality of the various associations and societies which... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
