 | William Belsham - 1795 - 632 pagina’s
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this house, " that the INFLUENCE of the CROWN, had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was, by a singular fortune, warmly supported by the speaker of the house,... | |
 | John Britton - 1814 - 1124 pagina’s
...holding in his hand a scroll, with the memorable resolution of the House of Commons, which asserted "that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the grand jury room, where the justices also usually hold their meetings, are original... | |
 | John Britton - 1801 - 384 pagina’s
...bears in his hand the report of that memorable Committee of the whole House of Commons, which resolved, That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished. The merit of Mr. Hoppner needs no other memorial than these two por* This picture belonged... | |
 | 1801 - 606 pagina’s
...remembered that a vote had passed the House of Commons, supported by all the country gentlemen, " tliat the influence of the '* crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be " diminished," their conduct will admit of a justification. However, the event was fatal to them... | |
 | John King (Banker) - 1803 - 226 pagina’s
...nothing but the discomfiture and disH3 grace of the accuser. And who will ever forget the popular motion that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished ? Language was ransaqked for choice expressions, and imagination for tropes and figures... | |
 | Junius - 1804 - 494 pagina’s
...discretion with which it should be exercised, which JUNIUS explains in these Letters. THE famous motion ; that " the influence of the Crown * had increased, was increasing, and ought to be dimi* nished;" — successfully made by DUNNING in the session of Parliament 1770 — 80, was fit... | |
 | William Belsham - 1805 - 470 pagina’s
...a full answer to the petitioners. His first motion was, that it should be resolved by this house, " that the INFLUENCE of the CROWN had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." This motion was, by a singular fortune, warmly supported by the speaker of the house,... | |
 | 1807 - 556 pagina’s
...times and yet such was the violence of party spirit, that the House of Commons had voted, riot long1 before, " that the influence of the Crown had increased,...— On a visit to London in the spring of 1784, Dr. Beattie had an opportunity of seeing Mrs. Siddons, of whose professional talents he speaks, as every... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1807 - 760 pagina’s
...service of (hut learned lord ..as the famous resolution proposed by bim in the Mouse of Commons, " that *' the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, *' and ought to be diminished." Such u person having received that appointment, tinder such an administration, had... | |
 | 1808 - 546 pagina’s
...could he find the incident that did not ? In the year 1780, it had been the opinion of that House, " that' the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." His right honorable friend had agreed to that resolution, and thereby declared, that... | |
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That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished: 
