 | Edward Gibbon - 1837 - 878 pages
...exposed to a struggle, and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " 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, introduced with eloquence, and supported by... | |
 | 1838 - 654 pages
...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 had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered — ' The part of ourconstitution which will first perish, is the... | |
 | 1838 - 596 pages
...speaking within three years of the time when tbe House of Commons had agreed to Mr. Dunning's motion, that the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished, after musing for a moment, answered, ' The part of our constitution which will perish first is the... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - 1838 - 422 pages
...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 had 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... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 pages
...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 had 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... | |
 | 1811 - 1008 pages
...crown." Mr. Rose, the famous placeman, observed, that even the celebrated resolution of Mr. Dunning, " That the influence of the crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished," did not go so far as to take away all influence from the crown : for otherwise the motion would have... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1838 - 594 pages
...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 had 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... | |
 | John M'Farlan (of Ballancleroch.) - 1838 - 30 pages
...remember but one occasion when it was carried, and that by a very small majority, " that the power of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished." Since that the whole system has gone to ruin. Joseph Hume has made sad havoc among the sinecures, and... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1839 - 486 pages
...exposed to a struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " 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, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman - 1840 - 390 pages
...exposed to a struggle and sometimes to a defeat. The House of Commons adopted Mr. Dunning's motion, " 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, introduced with eloquence, and supported... | |
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That the influence of the Crown had increased, was increasing, and ought to be diminished: 
