 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 442 pages
...overthrown by mere dint of numbers : he concluded therefore, and moved as a resolution of the house, That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. This motion being carried, after a long and violent debate, he next moved, that the house of commons... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1830 - 660 pages
...the course of this debate, we have heard the remark of a celebrated British orator, " that the power of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," applied to this Government. This may be true, sir, but there is no evidence of it. To ascertain if... | |
 | Benjamin Waterhouse - 1831 - 482 pages
...Mr. Dunning,f in grand committee of the whole House, proposed that it should be resolved,—that " the INFLUENCE of the CROWN had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was warmly supported by the SPEAKER of the House of Commons, who, though rarely accustomed... | |
 | Matthew Stewart - 1831 - 140 pages
...ends of such an institution in a very satisfactory degree. The times when it was true that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, are gone by ; the evil was temporary and incidental, and no longer exists. The diffusion of knowledge,... | |
 | 1832 - 536 pages
...Following up this incipient 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 himself,... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 626 pages
...It ought to be diminished" the last 4 lines allude to the celebrated vote of the House of Commons " that the Influence of the " Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to " be diminished " — there is also an allusion to a Member of that House, who had lately moved that the Ladies should... | |
 | 1834 - 896 pages
...his own way, like a bull in a china-shop. Conservatives as we have ever been, we felt that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished; but where Jay the board of control ? Had he reposed due confidence in the loyalty of the silent people... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 1164 pages
...the next session of parliament was stormy and perilous ; county meetings, petitions, and committees of correspondence, announced the public discontent...sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Sir. Dunning^ motion, " That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to... | |
 | George Wingrove Cooke - 1837 - 694 pages
...generally a falling minister. At twelve o'clock, the commons divided, and declared by a majority of 18, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. The effect was electrical. The minister, wont to be so haughty, frequently vouchsafing no other answer... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 pages
...parliamentary reformer, and speaking within three years of the time when the House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the Crown...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... | |
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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, 162 introduced with eloquence, and supported by numbers. 
