 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1796 - 360 pages
...meetings , petitions, and committees of correfpondence, announced the public difcontent; and inftead of voting with a triumphant majority , the friends of government were often expofed to a flruggle, andfometimes to a defeat. The Houfe of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - English letters - 1796 - 520 pages
...meetings, petitions, and committees of correfpondehce, announced the public difcontent ; and inftead of voting with a triumphant majority, the friends of government were often expofed to a ftruggle, and fometimes to a defeat. The Houfe of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion,... | |
 | John Britton - Architecture - 1814 - 1124 pages
...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... | |
 | John Britton - England - 1801 - 384 pages
...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... | |
 | 1801 - 606 pages
...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) - France - 1803 - 226 pages
...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 - Byzantine Empire - 1805 - 512 pages
...tt- be consistent both with my interest and my honour. The aspect of the next session of parliament was stormy and perilous; county meetings, petitions,...Dunning's motion, " That the " influence of the Crown had increasr d, was increasing, and " ought to be diminished:" and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1804 - 494 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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