 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1844 - 542 pages
...up a formidable opposition. (April I6th.) At lenglli Mr. Dunning moved his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to he diminished," which was carried by a majority of twenty-eight votes; but a second resolution, designed... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1845 - 582 pages
...principal danger to which the liberties of England were exposed. The cry has long been a popular one, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. I am satisfied, however, that this supposed balance is a vain imagination, and of course... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 510 pages
...abstracted from the petitions on the table, and take the sense of the committee on them : the first was, 'that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;' • a fact, he observed, which was notorious ; nor could there be a stronger proof... | |
 | Frank Fairplay - 1846 - 96 pages
...tickle the ears of unreflecting persons, with such clap-trap phrases as that of Dunning — " The power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The tyranny under which the good people of England groan, is not the tyranny of Queen Victoria. It is that... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1846 - 482 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1849 - 524 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... | |
 | Luther Stearns Cushing - Parliamentary practice - 1849 - 202 pages
...17SO, Mr. Dunning having made a motion, in the house of commons, " that, in the opinion of this house, the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," Dundas, lord-advocate of Scotland, in order to defeat the motion, proposed to amend,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 680 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 is, that "the influence of the Peers has... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 680 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 is, that "the influence of the Peers has... | |
 | Financial Reform Association (Liverpool, England) - Finance - 1851 - 600 pages
...called to office, Mr. Dunning, a barrister, moved in the House of Commons his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This was carried by a majority of 233 against 215. The minority imputed to the majority... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
