 | James Boswell - 1821 - 380 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 506 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... | |
 | 1854 - 718 pages
...Commons. The first decided symptom of this change was the result of the famous motion of Dunning — ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is ' increasing, and ought to be diminished' — which, after a hot debate, was carried, on the 6th of April, 1780, by 233 to 215... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 526 pages
...The House of Commons has, in an auspicious hour, 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.... | |
 | The Westminster Review.Volume II.July-October,1824 - 1824 - 582 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... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Christian literature - 1824 - 520 pages
...The House of Commons has, in an auspicious hour, 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.... | |
 | James Robins - Great Britain - 1824 - 490 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 has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the speaker of the House, who declared, that on... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 pages
...fixed 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Applied ethics - 1826 - 422 pages
...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 questions which involve... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - Applied ethics - 1826 - 426 pages
...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 questions which involve... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
