 | William Gordon - 1801 - 452 strani
...thousand electors. Mr. Dunning opened the business in an accurate ajid weighty speech, and then moved — "That the influence of 'the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be .diminished.'.' The locdradvocate of Scotland, to obtain a negative, i^oyed an amendment, in the... | |
 | William Gordon - 1801 - 452 strani
...thousand electors. Mr. Dunning opened the business in an accurate nnd weighty speech, and then moved — "That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be .diminished.'.' The lord-advocate of Scotland, to obtain a negative, . Ijjoyedan amendment, in the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1802 - 396 strani
...tending but remotely to despotism. If there be a time, in which the senate of a free country has declared that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished; and if, instead of a consequent diminution, there be an evident increase of that influence... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 strani
...minority, moved, as an introduction to other propositions which were to fill up his plan of reform, f " that the influence of the " crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished."—So general was the conviction of the fact, that, notwithstanding the minister opposed... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 780 strani
...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most serious and earnest attention. I, who think the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, am a friend to frequent appeals to the people, but not by means of dissolutions. Let... | |
 | 1808 - 540 strani
...will not differ from any as to the principle, though copied from none. My first resolution will be, " that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished :" my second, " that it is competent for this house to reform the civil list, or any... | |
 | 1809 - 624 strani
...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most serious and earnest attention. I, who think the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, am a friend to frequent appeals to the people, but not by means of dissolutions, tet... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 648 strani
...or by either house of the legislature. It is true that one of those houses has publicly resolved, " That the influence of the crown has increased, " is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" at the same time, instead of following up its resolution by suitable remedies for... | |
 | William Eusebius Andrews - 1814 - 534 strani
...shall observe is, that those who contend for the necessity of the measure, urge it upon the ground that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. This may be very true; and Sir John, no doubt, thinks so ; but I should be glad to know... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1814 - 730 strani
...to operate with the duration of the present war. The learned gentleman has produced a proposition, that the influence of the crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought t« be diminished-" Has be produced, or so much as promised, a tittle of evidence of the facts so alleged?... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ? ' " JOHNSON : " Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor ate an ounce less meat. 
