 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1853 - 972 pages
...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 pages
...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.... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1854 - 460 pages
...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... | |
 | Luther Stearns Cushing - 1854 - 204 pages
...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 pages
...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.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...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... | |
 | John McGilchrist - 1856 - 428 pages
...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,... | |
 | 1858 - 444 pages
...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1858 - 562 pages
...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
