 | Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 468 pages
...the next session of parliament was stormy and perilous; county meetings, petitions, and committees of correspondence, announced the public discontent...struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons • CEuvres de Beimmarchais, tom. iii. p. 299, 355. ' I can never forget the delight with which that... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1868 - 1238 pages
...of enfranchisement. It had been said by grave authorities about a century ago, that the Prerogative of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. Well, it was then thought desirable, in order to effect that object, to disfranchise all the officers... | |
 | John Murray (publishers.) - 1869 - 570 pages
...Hussey, Esq., MP (bearing in his hand the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, which resolved that "the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"), by ffvppnert The Grand Jury Boom also contains some good original portraits of various benefactors... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1869 - 574 pages
...Hussey, Esq., MP (bearing in his hand the Report of the Committee of the House of Commons, which resolved that "the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished"), by Hoppner. The Grand Jury Koom also contains some good original portraits of various benefactors to... | |
 | A. D. Bayne - 1869 - 826 pages
...Windham very well knows, that when he appeared in the character of a true patriot, when it was his creed that 'The influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished? when he avowedly acted as a spy on the executive government ; when he was found to be the vigilant... | |
 | John Charles Earle - 1871 - 504 pages
...still more plainly of an approaching crisis ; and when at last, in the month of April, Dunning made his motion that " the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," Lord North was left by his adherents in a distressing minority. 233 members against 215 voted with... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 458 pages
...former by 210 to 162. The latter by 203 to 118. J Dunning's famous Resolution on the 6th of April, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. It was carried by 233 to 215. § On the 10th of April, when Dunning's motion for securing the independence... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1872 - 460 pages
...former by 210 to 162. The latter by 203 to 118. } Dunning's famous Resolution on the 6th of April, that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. It was carried by 233 to 215. § On the 10th of April, when Dunning's motion for securing the independence... | |
 | Philip Vernon Smith - 1873 - 366 pages
...Parliament was destined at length to prevail. In 1780 the House of Commons passed resolutions, affirming that the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, and that the House of Commons had a right to correct abuses in the civil list expenditure and every other... | |
 | Marlborough coll - 1874 - 864 pages
...that the influence of the committee — in the words of Dunning's well known resolution on the power of the crown — had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, that it weakened the position of the captain and consequently paralyzed the action of the Eleven, resolved... | |
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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. 
