| James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...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 George Cockburn - 1831 - 216 pages
...conquered both. In April 1780, the Commons passed the famous resolution, " That it is necessary to declare that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.'' Had I been a member of the Honourable House, I should have moved an amendment, viz.... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1831 - 542 pages
...raised up a formidable opposition. (April 6th.) At length Mr. Dunning moved his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which was carried by a majority of twenty-eight votes : but a second resolution, designed... | |
| Robert Southey - 1832 - 464 pages
...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 increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great... | |
| Parliament lists - 1832 - 1026 pages
...constituent bodies is essentially necessary, have come to a resolution, " that it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." less judicious. In the midst of a war, in which nothing its unhappy circumstances)... | |
| Pablo Pebrer (i.e., Antonio Pablo) - 1833 - 598 pages
...regulation of his majesty's civil establishment"; and Dunning moved, " that it is necessary to declare, 1st. that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ; 2dly. that it is competent for parliament to examine and correct the abuses and the... | |
| 1834 - 1064 pages
...weight of the prerogative, but the usurpation of an Oligarchy. No man is now foolish enough to assert, that the influence of the Crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" the popular outcry which carried through the Revolution of 1832, ¡8 that " the influence... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1836 - 512 pages
...raised up a formidable opposition. (April 6th.) At length Mr. Dunning moved his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which was carried by a majority of twenty-eight votes ; but a second resolution, designed... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...his parliamentary efforts, " 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." In the session of 1780—81, the legality of the various associations and societies... | |
| George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 pages
...really attended to or finally and totally rejected. He then moved, that it was necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Appending to this bold declaration, an assertion of the right of the house of commons... | |
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