 | John Aikin - 1820 - 538 Seiten
...for taking into consideration the petitions, for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 380 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Earl John Russell Russell - 1821 - 344 Seiten
...world that has not been introduced this way. ALGERNON SIDNEY. THE celebrated resolution of 1 780, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," may seem to carry its own refutation along with it. A House of Commons that can vote... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1821 - 746 Seiten
...colonel Barre's motion for a committee of accounts, sir George Saville's motion, and others, he moved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The objections of ministry to this were, that it was an abstract proposition, not supported... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1854 - 718 Seiten
...Commons. The first decided symptom of this change was the result of the famous motion of Dunning — ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is ' increasing, and ought to be diminished' — which, after a hot debate, was carried, on the 6th of April, 1780, by 233 to 215... | |
 | The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 Seiten
...no-reasoners, in 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...controverted. That it had ceased to be so at the beginning of the French revolution in Mr. Burke's judgment, we know ; he himself having recorded his opinion in... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 490 Seiten
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this House, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the speaker of the House, who declared, that on... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 Seiten
...tending but remotely to despotism. If there be a time, in which the senate of a free country has declared that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished;" and if, instead of a consequent diminution, there be an evident increase of that influence;... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
