| 1824 - 940 páginas
...Mr Dunning's celebrated motion of the 6th of April 1780, when the House of Commons had declared, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," the learned gentleman proceeded to show, by a comparison of our civil and military establishments at... | |
| Walter Scott - 1824 - 938 páginas
...Mr Dunning's celebrated motion of the 6th of April 1780, when the House of Commons had declared, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," the learned gentleman proceeded to show, by a comparison of our civil and military establishments at... | |
| Walter Scott - 1824 - 938 páginas
...Mr Uunning's celebrated motion of the 6th of April 1780, when the House of Commons had declared, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," the learned gentleman proceeded to show, by a comparison of our civil and military establishments at... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1825 - 338 páginas
...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 by... | |
| James Easton - 1825 - 116 páginas
...the report in his hand from that memorable Committee of the whole House of Commons, which resolved " That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." The Mayor's chair, which is of mahogany, and a beautiful piece of carving, was presented to the Corporation... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1825 - 780 páginas
...remarkahle instance, with effect. This was, the resolution proposed hy Dunning, afterwards lord Ashhurton, " That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to he diminished." The motion passed, as also did another proposed hy the same celehrated advocate, "... | |
| 1830 - 336 páginas
...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 by numbers.... | |
| 1827 - 536 páginas
...re-established its dominion. Since the celebrated resolutions of Mr. Dunning, declaring that the power of ' the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished,' no successful effort has ever been made in parliament to reform abuses or to resist the influence of... | |
| Robert Southey - 1828 - 568 páginas
...its height at the close of the American war, the House of Commons passed a resolution that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ; a resolution that carried with it its own refutation, being itself a decisive proof of the weakness... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1822 - 866 páginas
...that he voted for the former proposition, because the House had, a short time before that, come to a resolution, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. The influence was diminished by Mr. Crewe's bill ; * Afterwards earl of llomney. For the debate on... | |
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