| 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.... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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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