 | Luther Stearns Cushing - 1854 - 204 pages
...1780, Mr. Dunning having made a motion, in the houso of commons, {L that, in the opinion of this house, the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," Dundas, lord-advocate of Scotland, in order to defeat the motion, proposed to amend,... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Turkey - 1856 - 428 pages
...and the consideration in parliament of a series of questions typified by the famous proposition, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," must also be allowed as some apology for a not very vigorous, a not very national,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...sentiments which the Whigs expressed in their celebrated resolution (drawn up by Mr. Dunning himself), that " the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and OUGHT TO BE DIMIN3 The reader will be interested in the following beautiful tribute to the memory of Lord Ashburton... | |
 | Frederick Grimké - Constitutional law - 1856 - 680 pages
...since the memorable resolution introduced into the house of commons in the early part of this century, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. It has exercised the minds of great numbers who had hitherto kept aloof from such speculations.... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 562 pages
...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1858 - 562 pages
...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since... | |
 | Law - 1858 - 444 pages
...other schemes of reform — the cause which is mentioned in the celebrated resolution of Dunning : " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." " This resolution," says Mr. Macknight, " expressed in a single sentence the moral... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 320 pages
...wrong." JOHNSON: "That's cant, Sir. It would not vex you more in the house than in the gallery: public affairs vex no man." BOSWELL: "Have not they vexed...the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished?1" JOHNSON : " Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would... | |
 | Henry Bull (of Devizes.) - 1859 - 642 pages
...following 6th of April, Mr. Dunning the member for Calne carried his memorable resolution in the House " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," yet public interest in any specific plans of regeneration was so immediately after... | |
 | Henry Bull - Devizes (England) - 1859 - 636 pages
...following 6th of April, Mr. Dunning the member for Calne carried his memorable resolution in the House "that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," yet public interest in any specific plans of regeneration was so immediately after... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, •and ought to be diminished ? 
