 | 1831 - 624 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 Seiten
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Sir George Cockburn - 1831 - 216 Seiten
...conquered both. In April 1780, the Commons passed the famous resolution, " That it is necessary to declare that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.'' Had I been a member of the Honourable House, I should have moved an amendment, viz.... | |
 | 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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1832 - 464 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Parliament lists - 1832 - 1026 Seiten
...constituent bodies is essentially necessary, have come to a resolution, " that it is necessary to declare, that the influence of 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)... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer (i.e., Antonio Pablo) - 1833 - 598 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - 1834 - 168 Seiten
...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... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
