| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 pages
...or by either house of the legislature. It is true that one of those houses has publicly resolved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, " is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" at the same time, instead of following up its resolution by suitable remedies for... | |
| William Eusebius Andrews - 1814 - 534 pages
...shall observe is, that those who contend for the necessity of the measure, urge it upon the ground that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. This may be very true; and Sir John, no doubt, thinks so ; but I should be glad to know... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1814 - 730 pages
...to operate with the duration of the present war. The learned gentleman has produced a proposition, that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought t« be diminished-" Has be produced, or so much as promised, a tittle of evidence of the facts so alleged?... | |
| Charles James Fox - Great Britain - 1815 - 520 pages
...liberties and constitution of this country, gentlemen might then find it necessary to come again to vote, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." He was ready to allow, that from the present state of the company's affairs, some regulations... | |
| John Aikin - Great Britain - 1816 - 540 pages
...for taking into consideration the petitions for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
| James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pages
...been vexed by all the tnrbuleuce of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Com-> mons, 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 rat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
| England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...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 1 832, is that " the influence... | |
| Arthur Jewitt - 1818 - 336 pages
...of any thing which seemed likely to be attended by this effect, because I am one of those who think that the influence of the crown "has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" but in what way Savings- Banks are liable to this charge, I am at a loss to conceive.... | |
| Richard Watson - Great Britain - 1818 - 466 pages
...resolutions were passed by the House on that ever memorable day. " 1. That it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. " 2. That it is competent to the House of Commons to examine into, and to correct abuses... | |
| John Aikin - Great Britain - 1820 - 538 pages
...for taking into consideration the petitions, for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
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