 | William Belsham - 1795 - 632 sider
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this house, " that the INFLUENCE of the CROWN, had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was, by a singular fortune, warmly supported by the speaker of the house, who, though rarely... | |
 | John Britton - 1801 - 384 sider
...bears in his hand the report of that memorable Committee of the whole House of Commons, which resolved, That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. The merit of Mr. Hoppner needs no other memorial than these two por* This picture belonged to a Society... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 1124 sider
...holding in his hand a scroll, with the memorable resolution of the House of Commons, which asserted "that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the grand jury room, where the justices also usually hold their meetings, are original portraits... | |
 | 1801 - 606 sider
...remembered that a vote had passed the House of Commons, supported by all the country gentlemen, " tliat the influence of the '* crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be " diminished," their conduct will admit of a justification. However, the event was fatal to them ; they were displaced,... | |
 | John King (Banker) - 1803 - 226 sider
...with nothing but the discomfiture and disH3 grace of the accuser. And who will ever forget the popular motion that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ? Language was ransaqked for choice expressions, and imagination for tropes and figures to ornament... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1805 - 512 sider
...House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the " influence of the Crown had increasr d, was increasing, and " ought to be diminished:" and...was abolished in the committee by a small majority (2O7 to 199) of eight votes. The storm, however, blew over for a time; a large defection of country... | |
 | Junius - 1804 - 494 sider
...the discretion with which it should be exercised, which JUNIUS explains in these Letters. THE famous motion ; that " the influence of the Crown * had increased, was increasing, and ought to be dimi* nished;" — successfully made by DUNNING in the session of Parliament 1770 — 80, was fit to... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 470 sider
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this house, " that the INFLUENCE of the CROWN had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was, by a singular fortune, warmly supported by the speaker of the house, who, though rarely... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 760 sider
...service of (hut learned lord ..as the famous resolution proposed by bim in the Mouse of Commons, " that *' the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, *' and ought to be diminished." Such u person having received that appointment, tinder such an administration, had led him to think... | |
 | 1807 - 558 sider
...yet such was the violence of party spirit, that the House of Commons liad voted, not 'long before, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to he diminished ! ! !" — On a vis-it to London in the spring of 1784, Dr. Bcattie had an opportunity... | |
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That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished :"and Mr. 
