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" That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? "
Republican Superstitions as Illustrated in the Political History of America - Página 87
por Moncure Daniel Conway - 1872 - 130 páginas
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Considerations Upon the Nature and Tendency of Free Institutions

Frederick Grimké - 1856 - 680 páginas
...since the memorable resolution introduced into the house of commons in the early part of this century, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. It has exercised the minds of great numbers who had hitherto kept aloof from such speculations....
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A History of the Turks: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time

John McGilchrist - 1856 - 428 páginas
...and the consideration in parliament of a series of questions typified by the famous proposition, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," must also be allowed as some apology for a not very vigorous, a not very national,...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 páginas
...sentiments which the Whigs expressed in their celebrated resolution (drawn up by Mr. Dunning himself), that " the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and OUGHT TO BE DIMIN3 The reader will be interested in the following beautiful tribute to the memory of Lord Ashburton...
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The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volumen7

Horace Walpole - 1858 - 562 páginas
...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since they had a wainscot....
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The letters of Horace Walpole, ed. by P. Cunningham, Volumen7

Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 562 páginas
...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since they had a wainscot....
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Literature and Nationalism

Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - 1991 - 316 páginas
...constitutional issues that persisted throughout the reign of George III. John Dunning's famous resolution 'that the Influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished' was passed by the Commons on 6 April 1780, and the Opposition won further votes to curb...
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A Polite and Commercial People: England 1727-1783

Paul Langford - 1989 - 856 páginas
...On 6 April John Dunning made his historic motion, unsupported by evidence but sustained by emotion, that the 'influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished': it was carried by 233 votes to 218. Charles James Fox pronounced 'that if he died that...
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The Invention of Tradition

Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger - 1992 - 332 páginas
...critic of her governments'. Even as late as 1879 the Commons once more debated Dunning's famous motion ' that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished'.21 If continuing royal power made grand royal ceremonial unacceptable, then renewed...
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A Short History of the American Revolution

James L. Stokesbury - 1993 - 308 páginas
...one crisis to the next. In April of 1 780, for example, the government lost the Dunning Resolution "that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished!" That was sufficiently vague to attract all the malcontents, and the resolution passed,...
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A Concise History of Britain, 1707-1975

William Arthur Speck - 1993 - 230 páginas
...advocated this approach, one of his connexion, John Dunning, moving the celebrated resolution in 1780 that 'the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'. When the marquis came to power his secretary Edmund Burke introduced a bill which axed...
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