| 1829 - 838 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... | |
| Auguste-Louis baron de Staël-Holstein - England - 1830 - 480 pages
...manisfestation of certain senr timents, as for instance the celebrated motion of Mr. Dunning, in 1780: " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." But as what concerns us is to compare the proceedings we follow in the discussion of... | |
| Henry Roscoe - Lawyers - 1830 - 554 pages
...following resolutions : — "That it is the opinion of this committee, that it is necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" and, " That it is competent to the house to examine into and to correct abuses in... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Sir George Cockburn - England - 1831 - 216 pages
...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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert Southey - Great Britain - 1832 - 464 pages
...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... | |
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