 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 966 pages
...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 ia competent to the ANNUAL REGISTER. 141 honte to correct... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1802 - 420 pages
...therepresentatrve and-con«lMient ent bodies is essentially necessary, have come to a resolution, *• That it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the crown has encreased, is encreasing, and ought to be diminished." . .This resolution we conceive to be undeniably... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Despotism - 1802 - 396 pages
...The House of Commons has, in an auspicious h'o'ur, resolved, and it can never be too often repeated, that the influence of the crown has increased,. is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Influence is more dangerous than prerogative.... It is a subtle poison that acts unseen.... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 pages
...minority, moved, as an introduction to other propositions which were to fill up his plan of reform, f " that the influence of the " crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."—So general was the conviction of the fact, that, notwithstanding the minister opposed... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 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, 1 have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 780 pages
...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most serious and earnest attention. I, who think the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, am a friend to frequent appeals to the people, but not by means of dissolutions. Let... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1807 - 588 pages
...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most se" rious and earnest attention. I who think the influence, of the " crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, " tun a friend to .frequent appeals to the people, but not by means " of dissolution.... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...will not differ from any as to the principle, though copied from none. My first resolution will be, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished :" my second, " that it is competent for this house to reform the civil list, or any... | |
 | Biography - 1809 - 624 pages
...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most serious and earnest attention. I, who think the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, am a friend to frequent appeals to the people, but not by means of dissolutions, tet... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
