 | 1831 - 624 pages
...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 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1831 - 570 pages
...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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1831 - 542 pages
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1832 - 442 pages
...no-reasoners in . 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...beginning of the French revolution in Mr. Burke's judgement, we know; he himself having recorded his opinion in works which will endure as long as the... | |
 | Parliament lists - 1832 - 1026 pages
...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) - Debts, Public - 1833 - 598 pages
...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... | |
 | Scotland - 1834 - 1064 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 1832, ยก8 that " the influence... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - United States - 1834 - 168 pages
...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"? 
