 | Lady Anne Hamilton - 1832 - 424 pages
...sentiments and opinions in the House, with unbending firmness and uncompromising fidelity. He said, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the year 1781, William Pitt, the son of the before-mentioned Lord Chatham, delivered... | |
 | Pablo Pebrer (i.e., Antonio Pablo) - Debts, Public - 1833 - 598 pages
...regulation of his majesty's civil establishment"; and Dunning moved, " that it is necessary to declare, 1st. that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ; 2dly. that it is competent for parliament to examine and correct the abuses and the... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1056 pages
...weight of the prerogative, but the usurpation of au Oligarchy. No man is now foolish enough to assert, that the influence of the Crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" the popular outcry which carried through the Revolution of 1 832, is that " the influence... | |
 | Caleb Cushing - United States - 1834 - 168 pages
...Resolution, introduced into the House of Commons by Mr Dunning in 1780, during the War of Independence. ' The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ! ' A Resolution, which even the Speaker, Sir Fletcher Norton, supported ; and which... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 458 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...the house, in a speech which may be regarded as the greatest of his parliamentary efforts, " that it is the opinion of this committee that it is necessary...the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the session of 1780-81, the legality of the various associations and societies which... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1836 - 492 pages
...the petitions on the table, and take the sense of the committee on them : the first of these was, ' that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished.' This fact, he observed, was notorious ; nor could there be a stronger proof of alarming... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Great Britain - 1836 - 512 pages
...raised up a formidable opposition. (April 6th.) At length Mr. Dunning moved his celebrated resolution, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which was carried by a majority of twenty-eight votes ; but a second resolution, designed... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - Great Britain - 1837 - 694 pages
...the nation were to be really attended to or finally and totally rejected. He then moved, that it was necessary to declare that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Appending to this bold declaration, an assertion of the right of the house of commons... | |
 | James Boswell - 1837 - 590 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 tobediminished?'" JOHNSON. "Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor ate an ounce less meat. I would... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
