This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...Nor do his writings show any real judgment as to the men with whom he dealt. His only test of men's merits and powers is their fitness as tools for the work which he wished to get from them. The capacity which made him dangerous lay in his absorbing and unswerving devotion to a single object, his power ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...Nor do his writings show any real judgment as to the men with whom he dealt. His only test of men's merits and powers is their fitness as tools for the work which he wished to get from them. The capacity which made him dangerous lay in his absorbing and unswerving devotion to a single object, his power, in forensic language, of getting up a case, of bringing together every detail which bore on a particular issue, and throwing them all into a clear and effective statement, tinged throughout with advocacy, yet so dexterous as almost to baffle refutation upon any one point. His powers in that way were shown by the report which he brought home after a sojourn of less than Randolph's two months in New England. Nearly the report.1 whole of it is devoted to Massachusetts. It sets forth clearly and shortly the commercial and industrial state of the colony, its system of law and administration, its population and means of defence, everything in short that the home government need know before undertaking the direct control of the colony. Not only this report but all Randolph's letters show that he was alive to the danger of makinc reckless charges. The only actual misstatement is to the effect that the main loss from the Indian war had fallen, not on Massachusetts, but on Plymouth and Connecticut. Yet in all matters where Randolph touches upon the relations of the colony to the home government a strain of misrepresentation is manifest. The Act of Navigation was no doubt evaded. But it was a highly coloured statement to say that ' no notice was taken of any laws made in England for the regulation of trade, ' and that the Massachusetts government would make the world believe that they are a free state. We may well doubt whether Leverett 'freely...
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