 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished :" and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by... | |
 | History - 1811 - 1008 pages
...famous placeman, observed, that even the celebrated resolution of Mr. Dunning, " That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," did not go so far as to take away all influence from the crown : for otherwise the motion would have... | |
 | John M'Farlan (of Ballancleroch.) - 1838 - 30 pages
...remember but one occasion when it was carried, and that by a very small majority, " that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Since that the whole system has gone to ruin. Joseph Hume has made sad havoc among the sinecures, and... | |
 | 1838 - 654 pages
...years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered — ' The part of ourconstitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 pages
...years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered ; " The part of our constitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...years of the time when tbe House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered, ' The part of our constitution which will perish first is the... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - Statesmen - 1838 - 426 pages
...years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr, Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered ; " The part of our constitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - Historians - 1839 - 496 pages
...and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished : " and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished : " and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 pages
...and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished : " and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
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That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished:" and Mr Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers. 
