 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 562 sivua
...their intended motions. The very first, made by Mr. Dunning, was a thundering one : the words were, " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The walls could not believe their own ears ; they had not heard such language since... | |
 | Henry Bull (of Devizes.) - 1859 - 642 sivua
...following 6th of April, Mr. Dunning the member for Calne carried his memorable resolution in the House " that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," yet public interest in any specific plans of regeneration was so immediately after... | |
 | Henry Bull - 1859 - 636 sivua
...following 6th of April, Mr. Dunning the member for Calne carried his memorable resolution in the House "that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," yet public interest in any specific plans of regeneration was so immediately after... | |
 | James White - 1860 - 874 sivua
...illegal imposition. The celebrated resolution was introduced and carried in the House of Commons, " That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished," and sympathy with the Americans became more widely diffused. § 10. A succession of alternate successes... | |
 | Vincent Newey, Ann Thompson - 1991 - 316 sivua
...constitutional issues that persisted throughout the reign of George III. John Dunning's famous resolution 'that the Influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished' was passed by the Commons on 6 April 1780, and the Opposition won further votes to curb... | |
 | Paul Langford - 1989 - 856 sivua
...On 6 April John Dunning made his historic motion, unsupported by evidence but sustained by emotion, that the 'influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished': it was carried by 233 votes to 218. Charles James Fox pronounced 'that if he died that... | |
 | Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger - 1992 - 332 sivua
...critic of her governments'. Even as late as 1879 the Commons once more debated Dunning's famous motion ' that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished'.21 If continuing royal power made grand royal ceremonial unacceptable, then renewed... | |
 | William Arthur Speck - 1993 - 230 sivua
...advocated this approach, one of his connexion, John Dunning, moving the celebrated resolution in 1780 that 'the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing and ought to be diminished'. When the marquis came to power his secretary Edmund Burke introduced a bill which axed... | |
 | James L. Stokesbury - 1993 - 308 sivua
...one crisis to the next. In April of 1 780, for example, the government lost the Dunning Resolution "that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished!" That was sufficiently vague to attract all the malcontents, and the resolution passed,... | |
 | Nicholas K. Robinson, Edmund Burke - 1996 - 233 sivua
...Dunning, their legal luminary, who had galvanised the opposition by moving his famous resolution in 1780, 'that the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished'.) Ciillray. in one ot his most celebrated early prints, depicts Burke as (jiiiinihititf... | |
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That the influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished"? 
