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. Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3831849Full view - About this book
| William Newland Welsby - Judges - 1846 - 576 pages
...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... | |
| Edward Gibbon - 1846 - 406 pages
...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.... | |
| Thomas Flanagan - Great Britain - 1847 - 996 pages
...told that his influence was on the wane (April, AD 1780). On Dunning's motion, "that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," the minister was left in a minority. In July the parliament was prorogued, then suddenly dissolved... | |
| American periodicals - 1849 - 742 pages
...Blue-and-yellow, which were read and admired by all the world thirty or forty years ago, and what do you tindt Loud declamations against the continuance of the war,...slavery in our West India colonies, as the only mode of enabling our planters to compete with the efforts of the slave•ugar states. Time has enabled the... | |
| Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...Waterloo ; ceaseless assertions that the misery of Ireland was entirely owing to misgpvernment — that nothing but Catholic emancipation, and the curtailment...slavery in our West India colonies, as the only mode of enabling our planters to compete with the efforts of the slave- sugar states. Time has enabled the... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 pages
...contented realm, and its Celtic inhabitants the most industrious and wellconditioned in Europe ;4oud denunciations that the power of the crown "had increased,...slavery in our West India colonies, as the only mode of enabling our planters to compete with the efforts of the slave-sugar states. Time has enabled the world... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1849 - 810 pages
...would act in this case as the British House of Commons o>nce did. They voted, " that the influence of th,e Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen... | |
| United States. Congress - United States - 1849 - 812 pages
...House would act in this case as the British House of Commons once did. They voted, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen... | |
| William Hanna - 1849 - 572 pages
...Mr. Fox's in Parliament, by which he carried it as the resolution of the House, ' That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished.'* But he could not get them to do anything upon this motion. They would come to no specific or operative... | |
| Joseph Gales - United States - 1849 - 810 pages
...House would act in this case as the British House of Commons once did. They voted, " that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." But they had . never acted up to this resolution, or done anything upon it. In the same way, the gentlemen... | |
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