 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 518 páginas
...his parliamentary efforts, " that it is the opinion of this committee that it is necessary to declare that the influence of 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... | |
 | Charles James Fox, Earl John Russell Russell - 1853 - 570 páginas
...there was not the least tumult." " In Committee of Commons, Dunning opened the debate, by a motion, ' That the Influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished' The Ministers were greatly embarrassed, and had no subterfuge but their old hackneyed... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 páginas
...sentiments which the Whigs expressed in their celebrated resolution (drawn up by Mr. Dunning himself), that " the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and OUGHT то BE DIMIN1 The reader will be iutcrested in the following beautiful tribute to the memory of Lord... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 460 páginas
...voting the words which he concluded with moving: — "That " it is the opinion of this Committee , that the influence of the "Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be "diminished." * Annual Register, 1780, p. 165. Sir Fletcher Norton, full of spleen against Lord... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...Commons. The first decided symptom of this change was the result of the famous motion of Dunning, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," which, after a hot debate, was carried, on the 6th of April, 1780, by 233 to 215 votes.... | |
 | Luther Stearns Cushing - 1854 - 204 páginas
...1780, Mr. Dunning having made a motion, in the houso of commons, {L that, in the opinion of this house, the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," Dundas, lord-advocate of Scotland, in order to defeat the motion, proposed to amend,... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - 1856 - 680 páginas
...since the memorable resolution introduced into the house of commons in the early part of this century, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. It has exercised the minds of great numbers who had hitherto kept aloof from such speculations.... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1856 - 428 páginas
...and the consideration in parliament of a series of questions typified by the famous proposition, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," must also be allowed as some apology for a not very vigorous, a not very national,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 páginas
...sentiments which the Whigs expressed in their celebrated resolution (drawn up by Mr. Dunning himself), that " the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and OUGHT TO BE DIMIN3 The reader will be interested in the following beautiful tribute to the memory of Lord Ashburton... | |
 | 1858 - 444 páginas
...other schemes of reform — the cause which is mentioned in the celebrated resolution of Dunning : " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." " This resolution," says Mr. Macknight, " expressed in a single sentence the moral of nearly all Burke's political... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
