 | Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 páginas
...Mr. Dunning,f in grand committee of the whole House, proposed that it should be resolved,—that " the INFLUENCE of the CROWN had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the SPEAKER of the House of Commons, who, though rarely accustomed... | |
 | Matthew Stewart - 1831 - 140 páginas
...ends of such an institution in a very satisfactory degree. The times when it was true that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, are gone by ; the evil was temporary and incidental, and no longer exists. The diffusion of knowledge,... | |
 | 1832 - 536 páginas
...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,... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 626 páginas
...It ought to be diminished" the last 4 lines allude to the celebrated vote of the House of Commons " that the Influence of the " Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to " be diminished " — there is also an allusion to a Member of that House, who had lately moved that the Ladies should... | |
 | 1834 - 896 páginas
...his own way, like a bull in a china-shop. Conservatives as we have ever been, we felt that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished; but where Jay the board of control ? Had he reposed due confidence in the loyalty of the silent people... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 páginas
...petitions, and committees of correspondence, announced the public discontent ; and instead of voting with a triumphant majority, the friends of government were...sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Sir. Dunning^ motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 páginas
...generally a falling minister. At twelve o'clock, the commons divided, and declared by a majority of 18, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. The effect was electrical. The minister, wont to be so haughty, frequently vouchsafing no other answer... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - 422 páginas
...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... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 páginas
...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... | |
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