 | Horace Walpole - 1851 - 430 pàgines
...but I will love you again prodigiously if you will come. TO THE REV. WILLIAM MASON. Feb. 23, 1782. The Power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished, very true, and it is diminished, a good deal indeed ; if it valued the extent to which... | |
 | 1853 - 166 pàgines
...privileges, in apparent forgetfulness of those Whig principles which dictated the memorable resolution — " that the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." We, indeed, as Constitutionalists' would rather increase than diminish the power of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 pàgines
...somewhat surprising from the Whigs — the same party that carried Mr. Dunning's celebrated resolution that ' the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished1 — a vote equally factious and absurd, for its very success proved its falsity ; but... | |
 | James Booth - 1856 - 212 pàgines
...encroaching despotism of the state. I believe the old Whig formula is gone somewhat out of fashion, " The power " of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be " diminished." Now, people who speak of the state in this way seem to talk as if the state were... | |
 | 1857 - 696 pàgines
...encroaching despotism of the state. I believe the old Whig formula is gone somewhat out of fashion, " The power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." Now, people who speak of the state in this way seem to talk as if the state were some... | |
 | Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1858 - 636 pàgines
...undamaged. I was much obliged to you, and am yours ever. 2121. TO THE REV. AVILLIAM MASON. FA. 28, 1782. THE power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished : very true, and it is diminished, a good deal indeed, if it valued the extent to which... | |
 | Horace Walpole - 1861 - 632 pàgines
...undamaged. I was much obliged to you, and am yours ever. 2121. TO THE REV. WILLIAM MASON. Feb. 23, 1782. THE power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished : very true, and it is diminished, a good deal indeed, if it valued the extent to which... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1864 - 636 pàgines
...began between the Whigs and the " frienrls of the king." The watchword of the Whigs was the proposition that " the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished ;" that of the Tories was "Church and King." A reform of the system of returning members... | |
 | Matthew Forster Conolly - 1866 - 518 pàgines
...youth learned — nor in bis manhood could he be persuaded by all the arguments of public oratory, that " the power of the Crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." But, neglected as he was by the Court, he maintained tbrough life that, in a mixed... | |
 | Philip Smith - 1868 - 394 pàgines
...began between the Whigs and the "friends of the king." The watchword of the Whigs was the proposition that "the power of the crown has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished;" that of the Tories was " Church and King." A reform of the system of returning members... | |
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