...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?...

...liberties and constitution of this country, gentlemen might then find it necessary to come again to vote, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." He was ready to allow, that from the present state of the company's affairs, some regulations...

...for taking into consideration the petitions for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating...

...been vexed by all the tnrbuleuce of this reign, and by that absurd vote of the House of Com-> mons, That the influence of the crown has, increased, is...Johnson. Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor rat an ounce less meat. I would have knocked the factious dogs on the head, to be sure ; but I was...

...weight of the prerogative, but the usurpation of an Oligarchy. No man is now foolish enough to assert, that the influence of the Crown " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" the popular outcry which carried through the Revolution of 1 832, is that " the influence...

...of any thing which seemed likely to be attended by this effect, because I am one of those who think that the influence of the crown "has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" but in what way Savings- Banks are liable to this charge, I am at a loss to conceive....

...favour of parliamentary reform, proceed upon the belief of Mr.Dunning's orMr.Burke's famous motion, that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished. Whether that position was true when the motion was made and carried, might with great...

...resolutions were passed by the House on that ever memorable day. " 1. That it is necessary to declare, that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. " 2. That it is competent to the House of Commons to examine into, and to correct abuses...

...wrong. Johnson. That's cant, Sir. It would not vex you more in the house, than in the gallery: public affairs vex no man. Boswell. Have not they vexed yourself...Commons, That the influence of the crown has increased, i« increasing, and ought to be diminished ? Johnson. Sir, I have never slept an hour less, nor eat...

...for taking into consideration the petitions, for reform, Mr. Dunning moved his famous resolution, " That the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." In the debate which it produced, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, by way of defeating...