 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1826 - 444 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... | |
 | History - 1826 - 972 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] 140 141 house to correct the civil list expenditure carried, xxiii... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1826 - 1030 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 is competent to the house to correct the civil... | |
 | Robert Bisset - Great Britain - 1828 - 700 pages
...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 summoned the... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | 1829 - 838 pages
...215. The three following resolutions were passed by the house on that ever memorable day: — 1. — "That it is necessary to declare that the influence...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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - United States - 1829 - 540 pages
...known, by a majority of eighteen votes against the utmost efforts, of the Ministry, the resolution, that it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the Crown has increased, increases, and ought to be diminished ; that it is in the power of the House to take cognizance of,... | |
 | Auguste-Louis baron de Staël-Holstein - England - 1830 - 480 pages
...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 - England - 1831 - 216 pages
...unfortunately, I may say, conquered both. In April 1780, the Commons passed the famous resolution, " That it is necessary to declare that the influence...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.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 620 pages
...of the nation, but as essentially the same, when clearly understood. If the well-known resolution, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, had been earned in an Irish House of Commons, instead of an English one, it would have... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
