 | 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.... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 820 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Thornton - India - 1842 - 632 pages
...professed to dread the extension of ministerial influence, and who avowed a belief " that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished?" — how could they support a project for adding a vast mass of the most desirable patronage to that... | |
 | 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 (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 540 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Strawberry Hill (Villa, England) - 1844 - 590 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...innovation. The times, he maintained, were altogether changed since the house had come to a resolution that " the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Fox having attacked him on this tergiversation, or change of opinion, the minister was defended by... | |
 | 1846 - 486 pages
...counteracting motions were made by the various parties. In April, a resolution was moved by Dunning, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This was unexpectedly carried, by a majority of eighteen, with others requiring immediate attention... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - Ireland - 1846 - 564 pages
...the appearances of pristine strength and vigour. The parliament, more than thirty years ago, declared that ' the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.' Alas ! from that day to this, the evil has only accumulated ; no attempt at a remedy has been entertained.... | |
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