 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 590 Seiten
...Parliamentary reformer, and 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...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 540 Seiten
...Parliamentary reformer, and 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...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 548 Seiten
...reformer, and speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning'8 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... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1845 - 440 Seiten
...innovation. The times, he maintained, were altogether changed since the house had come to a resolution that " the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Fox having attacked him on this tergiversation, or change of opinion, the minister was defended by... | |
 | William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 584 Seiten
...Following up this incipient success, Dunning, on the sixth of April, brought before the House his memorable motion, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished; and after an animated debate, during which no member on either side played a more prominent part than himself,... | |
 | Daniel O'Connell - 1846 - 564 Seiten
...the appearances of pristine strength and vigour. The parliament, more than thirty years ago, declared that ' the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.' Alas ! from that day to this, the evil has only accumulated ; no attempt at a remedy has been entertained.... | |
 | 1846 - 486 Seiten
...counteracting motions were made by the various parties. In April, a resolution was moved by Dunning, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This was unexpectedly carried, by a majority of eighteen, with others requiring immediate attention... | |
 | Thomas Flanagan - 1847 - 996 Seiten
...on the retrenchment of the expenditure told that his influence was on the wane (April, AD 1780). On Dunning's motion, "that the influence of the crown...increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," the minister was left in a minority. In July the parliament was prorogued, then suddenly dissolved... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1849 - 810 Seiten
...beggary. The House would act in this case as the British House of Commons o>nce did. They voted, " that the influence of th,e Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen... | |
 | Joseph Gales - 1849 - 812 Seiten
...to beggary. The House would act in this case as the British House of Commons once did. They voted, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen... | |
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