 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 Seiten
...fixed 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 ensued upon it, the lord-advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | 1826 - 972 Seiten
...debates on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] 140 141 house to correct the civil list expenditure carried, xxiii... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 1030 Seiten
...debates on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] .,..——— it is competent to the house to correct the civil... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 426 Seiten
...beget parties ; while agreements beget personal union and party confederacies. Men who honestly think that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, and who believe that civil liberty is the greatest social blessing, will vote on all... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 422 Seiten
...parties; while agreements beget personal union and party confederacies. XXXIII. Men who honestly think that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, and who believe that civil liberty is the greatest social blessing, will vote on all... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 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 ensued upon it, the lord advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating... | |
 | Robert Bisset - 1828 - 700 Seiten
...interesting detail, in a series of acute and powerful reasoning, he drew the following conclusion : " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" and proposed this allegation us a resolution to be voted by the house. Such a proposition... | |
 | 1829 - 838 Seiten
...resolutions were passed by the house on that ever memorable day: — 1. — "That it is necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. 2. — " That it is competent to the House of Commons to examine into and to correct... | |
 | Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 Seiten
...following resolutions : — "That it is the opinion of this committee, that it is necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" and, " That it is competent to the house to examine into and to correct abuses in... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
