...to 215. The three following resolutions were passed by the House on that ever memorable day. 79 " 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 abuses...

...Mr. Dunning's celebrated motion in the House of Commons (which is in the recollection of all of us) that the " influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."* Did not thus a regular vote of the House of Commons say as much as this hand-bill...

...been vexed by all the tnrbuleuce of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Com-> mons, 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 rat an ounce less meat. I would...

...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...

...of any thing which seemed likely to be attended by this effect, because I am one of those who think that the influence of the crown "has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" but in what way Savings- Banks are liable to this charge, I am at a loss to conceive....

...233 to 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 of the Crown has inVOL. I. K 129 creased, is increasing, and ought to b* diminished. " 2. That it is competent to the...

...233 to 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 of the Crown has inVOL. i. K 129 creased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. " 2. That it is competent to the...

...which stands upon the authority of the House itself; this opinion is recorded in the famous resolution, that " the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This fact was acknowledged by men both living and dead, the purity of whose motives...

...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 it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating...

...to operate with the duration of the present war. The learned gentleman has produced a proposition, that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought t« be diminished-" Has be produced, or so much as promised, a tittle of evidence of the facts so alleged?...