 | Edmund Burke - 1826 - 966 pagina’s
...on the army estimates, xxiii 160] .... consideration of the petitions, xxiii 164] 189] .... motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, carried, xxiii 167] .... • it ia competent to the ANNUAL REGISTER. 141 honte to correct... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1802 - 396 pagina’s
...The House of Commons has, in an auspicious h'o'ur, resolved, and it can never be too often repeated, that the influence of the crown has increased,. is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Influence is more dangerous than prerogative.... It is a subtle poison that acts unseen.... | |
 | charles mayo, l.l.b. - 1804 - 570 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pagina’s
...JOHNSON. " That's cant, Sir. It would not vex you more in the house, than in the gallery : publick affairs vex no man." BOSWELL. " Have not they vexed...increasing, •and ought to be diminished ?" JOHNSON. " Sir, 1 have never slept an hour less, nor eat an ounce less meat. I would have knocked the factious dogs... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1807 - 588 pagina’s
...growing infringements of the constitution demand our most se" rious and earnest attention. I who think the influence, of the " crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, " tun a friend to .frequent appeals to the people, but not by means " of dissolution.... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 780 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Robert Macfarlan - 1911 - 572 pagina’s
...committee of accounts, Sir George Saville's motion, and others. He then made his celebrated motion, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Ministry regarded this as an abstract proposition, unsupported by facts ; and it was... | |
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Have not they vexed yourself a little, Sir ? Have not you been vexed by all the turbulence of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Commons, ' That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ? '... 
