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" It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant: and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and... "
The Expediency Maintained of Continuing the System by which the Trade and ... - Page 192
by Robert Grant - 1813 - 404 pages
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...1 Comminerablo. Worthy of compassion. ' This commieerable person, Edward.' .—Bacon's Heary VII. ' It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant' Yet two-and-a-half centuries after Bacon's time, the English government, in opposition to the remonstrances...
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Our Convicts, Volume 1

Mary Carpenter - 1864 - 336 pages
...to change, are in accordance with the dictum of the great and far-seeing BACON, who declared that ' it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to he the people with whom you plant.' " Those who have joined in the clamour for returning to Transportation,...
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Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His ...

Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...is not to be neglected, as far as it may stand with the good of the [6] plantation, but no farther. It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...weary, and then certify over to their country to the [7] discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen, labourers,...
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Guesses at Truth

Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1867 - 656 pages
...Plantations (says Bacon, speaking of Colonies) are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. — It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the...plantation: for they will ever live like rogues, and not fell to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify...
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Melibœus-Hipponax: The Biglow papers. Second series

James Russell Lowell - 1867 - 358 pages
...streets and the leavings of the London stews. It was this my Lord Bacon had in mind when he wrote: "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...condemned men to be the people with whom you plant." That certain names are found there is nothing to the purpose, for, even had an alias been beyond the...
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The North American Review, Volume 107

1868 - 690 pages
...in America, refer, when he wrote on Plantations in 1625 : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing O to take the scum of people, and wicked, condemned...weary, and then certify over to their country to the disci-edit of the plantation " ? What relation, if any, did the Popham Colony have to subsequent and...
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Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...the Good of the Plantation, but no further. It is a Shamefull and Unblessed Thing, to take the Scumme of People, and Wicked Condemned Men, to be the People...For they will ever live like Rogues, and not fall to worke, but be Lazie, and doe Mischiefe, and spend Victuals, and be quickly weary, and then Certifie...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commisserable3 persons. ANNOTATIONS. ' It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with wfiom you plant? Yet two-and-a-half centuries after Bacon's time, the English government, in opposition...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commisserable8 persons. ANNOTATIONS. i It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people cmd wicked condemned men, to ~be the people with whom you plant? Tet two-and-a-half centuries after...
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Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...the Good of the Plantation, bat no further. It is a Shamefull and Unblessed Thing, to take the Scumme of People, and Wicked Condemned Men, to be the People with whom yon Plant: And not only so, but it spoileth the Plantation; For they will ever live like Rogues, and...
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