 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 1030 sider
...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 426 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 sider
...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... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...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... | |
 | Auguste-Louis baron de Staël-Holstein - 1830 - 480 sider
...manisfestation of certain senr timents, as for instance the celebrated motion of Mr. Dunning, in 1780: " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." But as what concerns us is to compare the proceedings we follow in the discussion of... | |
 | Sir George Cockburn - 1831 - 216 sider
...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.... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
