 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 páginas
...principal danger to which the liberties of England were exposed. The cry has long been a popular one, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. I am satisfied, however, that this supposed balance is a vain imagination, and of course... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1846 - 482 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... | |
 | Frank Fairplay - 1846 - 96 páginas
...tickle the ears of unreflecting persons, with such clap-trap phrases as that of Dunning — " The power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The tyranny under which the good people of England groan, is not the tyranny of Queen Victoria. It is that... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - 510 páginas
...abstracted from the petitions on the table, and take the sense of the committee on them : the first was, 'that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;' • a fact, he observed, which was notorious ; nor could there be a stronger proof... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1849 - 524 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... | |
 | Luther Stearns Cushing - 1849 - 202 páginas
...17SO, Mr. Dunning having made a motion, in the house of commons, " that, in the opinion of this house, the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," Dundas, lord-advocate of Scotland, in order to defeat the motion, proposed to amend,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 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 is, that "the influence of the Peers has... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1850 - 680 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 is, that "the influence of the Peers has... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 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... | |
 | Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) - 1851 - 600 páginas
...called to office, Mr. Dunning, a barrister, moved in the House of Commons his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This was carried by a majority of 233 against 215. The minority imputed to the majority... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
