...very great, but we trust it will not be used to any detrimental purpose; and they who have asserted that the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, have now their wishes in great measure gratified. To us there never appeared this danger...

...time when he was honored with the title of " the Prince's Friend," stoutly maintained in Parliament, that " the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing^ and ought to be diminished." This was I think near forty years ago, and I presume Lord Holland, the Marquis of Lansdowne,...

...whether thou art a Whig or a Tory, an Oppositionist or a Ministerialist, — whether thou art of opinion that " the power of the crown" has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished; or coincidest in sentiments with those who are willing to render that power still stronger,...

...whether thou art a Whig or a Tory, an Oppositionist or a Ministerialist, — whether thou art of opinion that "the power of the crown" has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ; or coincidest in sentiments with those who are willing to render that power still stronger,...

...can aim. The present cacoethesscrihendi which infests all ranks, more especially the medical, like the power of the crown, " has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The list of those in the profession " who hunger and who thirst for scribbling sake,"...

...introduced into the House of Commons by Mr Dunning in 1780, during the War of Independence. ' The influence of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ! ' A Resolution, which even the Speaker, Sir Fletcher Norton, supported ; and which was adopted by a full...

...constitution of the legislature and its relations with the executive. It can no longer be truly affirmed " that the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The constitution has rather been endangered from another quarter, — by a transference...

...petitions on the table, and take the sense of the committee on them : the first was, 'that the influence of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;' • a fact, he observed, which was notorious ; nor could there be a stronger proof of alarming and corrupt...

...easy to tickle the ears of unreflecting persons, with such clap-trap phrases as that of Dunning — " The power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The tyranny under which the good people of England groan, is not the tyranny of Queen...

...pkrenzy of virtue and the madness of ideal perfection ?' " The bill was rejected by a majority of 61 to 41, — a decision which rendered the Lords very...relative to the rupture with Holland, which made the ry ^o 1701 T situation of public affairs still more difficult and alarm- L ' ; ,'-* ing. There being,...