 | 1838 - 596 sidor
...speaking within three years of the time when tbe House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered, ' The part of our constitution which will perish first is the... | |
 | 1811 - 1008 sidor
...crown." Mr. Rose, the famous placeman, observed, that even the celebrated resolution of Mr. Dunning, " That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," did not go so far as to take away all influence from the crown : for otherwise the motion would have... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - 422 sidor
...speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered ; " The part of our constitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 sidor
...speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered ; " The part of our constitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 sidor
...exposed to a struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished : " and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 sidor
...exposed to a struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished : " and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 sidor
...exposed to a struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished : " and Mr. Burke's bill of reform was framed with skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 sidor
...House, sitting in committee, was occupied in discussing the famous resolution moved by Dunning, — That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Dunning said, that all the petitions agreed in the one great fun• By the title of Baron Sheffield.... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1842 - 322 sidor
...connexions. 21. That by a resolution passed on the 6th of April, 1780, it was declared by this House, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. JET. 70-] RESOLUTIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 4V97 22. That since that time the influence of the Crown... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 sidor
...gradually lessening, Mr Dunning, on the 6th of A pril 1780, carried, by a majority of eighteen, a motion, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This wits looked upon as a severe censure of the government, considering that the House of Commons... | |
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That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished: 
