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 convulsions at home may hurt our affairs abroad.' 'Head, and hearts, and hands' there must be. Surely there was a sound common platform on which leading men of the party could stand together: 'half a dozen of good men would go far; but they must be men indeed'. Only essentials of conformity should be exacted as a test.

And so we might by illustration proceed. We might show, on the one side, how Carteret in the conduct of his diplomacy, whatever in substance and objects be its merits, was obstructed by the intrigues and jealousies of the Pelhams in the ministry, and, on the other side, the great and brilliant results achieved