 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.  Littell's Living Age - Стр. 2441849Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - Страниц: 390
...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik, Charles MacFarlane - 1841 - Страниц: 834
...committee, was occupied in discussing the famous resolution moved by Dunning, — That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Dunning said, that all the petitions agreed in the one great fun• By the title of Baron Sheffield.... | |
 | Edward Thornton - 1842 - Страниц: 604
...who had always professed to dread the extension of ministerial influence, and who avowed a belief " that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished?" — how could they support a project for adding a vast mass of the most desirable patronage to that... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1842 - Страниц: 322
...by a resolution passed on the 6th of April, 1780, it was declared by this House, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. JET. 70-] RESOLUTIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 4V97 22. That since that time the influence of the Crown... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - 1842 - Страниц: 820
...Dunning, on the 6th of A pril 1780, carried, by a majority of eighteen, a motion, " that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This wits looked upon as a severe censure of the government, considering that the House of Commons... | |
 | Jeremy Bentham - 1843 - Страниц: 626
...by a resolution passed on the 6th of April, 1780, it was declared by this Honse, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Mt. 70.] RESOLUTIONS ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. 497 22. That since that time the influence of the Crown... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1844 - Страниц: 540
...years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered : ' The part of our Constitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1844 - Страниц: 548
...years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning'8 motion, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered : ' The part of our Constitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | Sir Nathaniel William Wraxall - 1845 - Страниц: 440
...he maintained, were altogether changed since the house had come to a resolution that " the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Fox having attacked him on this tergiversation, or change of opinion, the minister was defended by... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1846 - Страниц: 406
...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.... | |
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