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is most certain / and I believe it is allow'd me pretty Generally / That I have always meant to do, or to attain or advance what was most right as I believ'd for the Nation and have always wished to do the rightest Things in the rightest Way, And by Party at least, I have never been misled, (by the [[underline]] Names [[/underline]] names I mean, and by the [[underline]] Divisions [[/underline]] of [[underline]] Party [[/underline]].) I never entertained an Idea of a Publick Object that could deserve that Name if confined to the Nominal Distinctions and Divisions of any Party. Whatever Prejudices I may have contracted with Regard to the Objects I may have formed, Those Objects were great at least and justifiable and Right in this Respect. That they [[symbol]] embraced the [[underline]] Whole, [[/underline]] had the Interests of the whole Nation for their Motives, and the Happenings of the whole Nation for their End, in which Whigs and Torys were consider'd indifferently as parts of that whole. The honest Principles of Either approved the? Devieations of Either from those principles perceived, and the? continuation of the Principles, and of the persons and Interests of both partys as well as the Confusion and Destruction of their several Factions Distinctions and Divisions were Ever the First and greatest Rules of my Conduct, and the most desired Effects of my Endeavours for the publick Welfare. Whoever considers his country Systematically and Dispassionately must consider determined party Distinctions and Divisions, as the greatest national Misfortune. But even a little Experience sufficed in the time when I came into the World without much Speculation to discover how little either Party deserved [[underline]] as such [[/underline]] at that Time of the Nation, and how little- real National Good was to be hoped from Either. The one a Combination in Support of their own Power, or rather of their Gain, For all Ambition seem'd resolved into Interest, Gain was [[catchword]] the [[/catchword]]