...principal danger to which the liberties of England were exposed. The cry has long been a popular one, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. I am satisfied, however, that this supposed balance is a vain imagination, and of course...

...been 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...

...world that has not been introduced this way. ALGERNON SIDNEY. THE celebrated resolution of 1 780, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," may seem to carry its own refutation along with it. A House of Commons that can vote...

...colonel Barre's motion for a committee of accounts, sir George Saville's motion, and others, he moved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The objections of ministry to this were, that it was an abstract proposition, not supported...

...been 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...

...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr. Dunning's or Mr. Burke's famous motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great...

...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this House, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the speaker of the House, who declared, that on...

...tending but remotely to despotism. If there be a time, in which the senate of a free country has declared that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished;" and if, instead of a consequent diminution, there be an evident increase of that influence;...

...fixed for taking into consideration the petitions for reform, Mr Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which ensued upon it, the lord-advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating...

...on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] 140 141 house to correct the civil list expenditure carried, xxiii...