 | 1838 - 596 Seiten
...parliamentary reformer, and 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...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John M'Farlan (of Ballancleroch.) - 1838 - 30 Seiten
...remember but one occasion when it was carried, and that by a very small majority, " that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Since that the whole system has gone to ruin. Joseph Hume has made sad havoc among the sinecures, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 396 Seiten
...petitions, and committees of correspondence, announced the public discontent ; and instead of voting with a triumphant majority, the friends of government were...skill, introduced with eloquence, and supported by num- . bers. Our late president, the American Secretary of State, very narrowly escaped the sentence... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - 834 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 820 Seiten
...be 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... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - 828 Seiten
...lessening, Mr Dunning, on the (ith of April 17ПО, carried, by a majority of eighteen, a mot ¡on, "that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This WHS looked upon as a severe censure of the government, considering that the House of Commons was... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1842 - 322 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1842 - 632 Seiten
...professed to dread the extension of ministerial influence, and who avowed a belief " that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished?" — how could they support a project for adding a vast mass of the most desirable patronage to that... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - 626 Seiten
...connexions. 21. That by a resolution passed on the 6th of April, 1780, it was declared by this Honse, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Mt. 70.] RESOLUTIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 497 22. That since that time the influence of the Crown... | |
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