Robert Harley Earl of Oxford Prime Minister 1710 1714 a Study of Politics An
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To act so as to hold the good opinion of the moderate members of two opposite parties, was an impossibility under the circumstances of that particular time. To show a desire for the Hanoverian succession, to engage in schemes for a political union with Halifax, and at the same time to affect sympathy with the Pretender, was to carry a difficult political intrigue to a point which could hardly fail to result in political disaster. But whatever we may think of Harley's methods, they were not trea...sonable, and when he reofarded himself as an ill-used man it is impossible to doubt the genuineness of the feeling. Certainly, too, the Jacobitism of the Tory party in England has been exaggerated, for there is no ^ Macpherson Papers^ ii. 633. 188 ROBERT HARLEY evidence of any real and practical scheme for the restoration of the Pretender. If he could have returned to the throne under a new parliamentary title, or if on an armed attempt considerable popular enthusiasm had been shown for his cause, there were many who would have welcomed him.
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