 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - Statesmen - 1838 - 422 pages
...parliamentary reformer, and speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown...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... | |
 | History - 1811 - 1008 pages
...crown." Mr. Rose, the 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1841 - 834 pages
...House, sitting in committee, was occupied in discussing the famous resolution moved by Dunning, — That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Dunning said, that all the petitions agreed in the one great fun• By the title of Baron Sheffield.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...be gradually lessening, Mr Dunning, on the 6th of A pril 1780, carried, by a majority of eighteen, a motion, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This wits looked upon as a severe censure of the government, considering that the House of Commons... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Australia - 1842 - 828 pages
...lessening, Mr Dunning, on the (ith of April 17ПО, carried, by a majority of eighteen, a mot ¡on, "that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This WHS looked upon as a severe censure of the government, considering that the House of Commons was... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1842 - 322 pages
...connexions. 21. That by a resolution passed on the 6th of April, 1780, it was declared by this House, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. JET. 70-] RESOLUTIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 4V97 22. That since that time the influence of the Crown... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - Constitutional law - 1843 - 626 pages
...connexions. 21. That by a resolution passed on the 6th of April, 1780, it was declared by this Honse, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Mt. 70.] RESOLUTIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 497 22. That since that time the influence of the Crown... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 590 pages
...Parliamentary reformer, and speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 540 pages
...Parliamentary reformer, and speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 548 pages
...reformer, and speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning'8 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... | |
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That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"; and Mr. 
