 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...themselves and their 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 pages
...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 was not... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1842 - 632 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - 540 pages
...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... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - 590 pages
...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... | |
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That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished: 
