| William Gordon - 1801 - 452 pages
...electors. Mr. Dunning opened the business in an accurate nnd weighty speech, and then moved — "That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be .diminished.'.' The lord-advocate of Scotland, to obtain a negative, . Ijjoyedan amendment, in the... | |
| William Gordon - 1801 - 452 pages
...electors. Mr. Dunning opened the business in an accurate ajid weighty speech, and then moved — "That the influence of 'the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be .diminished.'.' The locdradvocate of Scotland, to obtain a negative, i^oyed an amendment, in the... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1802 - 396 pages
...House of Commons has, in an auspicious hour, resolved, and it can never be too often repeated, that the influence of the crown has increased,. is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Influence is more dangerous than prerogative.... It is a subtle poison that acts unseen.... | |
| 1819 - 654 pages
...principles, Popular. They had all concurred in the famous resolution of Mr Dunning in 1780, ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. ' The interest, and charges on the national debt, have, since the period of that resolution,... | |
| charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 pages
...moved, as an introduction to other propositions which were to fill up his plan of reform, f " that the influence of the " crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."—So general was the conviction of the fact, that, notwithstanding the minister opposed... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...daily growing infringements of the constitution, "demand our most serious and earnest attention. / who think the " influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to " he diminished, am a friend to frequent appeals to the people, hut " not hy means of dissolution.... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...vexed by all the turbulence of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Commons, ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...vexed by all the turbulence of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Commons, ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, •and ought to be diminished ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, 1 have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
| 1808 - 540 pages
...not differ from any as to the principle, though copied from none. My first resolution will be, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished :" my second, " that it is competent for this house to reform the civil list, or any... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 pages
...either house of the legislature. It is true that one of those houses has publicly resolved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, " is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" at the same time, instead of following up its resolution by suitable remedies for... | |
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