| Richard Chenevix Trench - English language - 1859 - 260 pages
...it was when ' The Plantations' was the standing name by which our transatlantic colonies were known. It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men to be the people with whom you plant j and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation. Bacon, Essays, 33. Pktntations make mankind broader,... | |
| Charles Campbell - History - 1860 - 772 pages
...Bacon says: "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men, with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief; spend victuals and be quickly weary."f Immediately upon * The colony was provided with fishing-nets,... | |
| African Americans - 1860 - 402 pages
...had said : '. It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men with whom you plant, and not only so, but it spoileth...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief, spend victuals and be quickly weary." — Campbell, page 30, Bacon's Works, vol. I, page 41. Bacon... | |
| Charles Campbell - Virginia - 1860 - 766 pages
...Bacon says: "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men, with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief; spend victuals and be quickly weary. "f Immediately upon * The colony was provided with fishing -nets,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - English essays - 1861 - 630 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commisserable' persons. ANNOTATIONS. ' 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... | |
| Richard Whately - Digital images - 1861 - 372 pages
...rest, by Bacon; but the system has, on other accounts, his decided disapprobation. " It is," says he, " a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of...condemned men to be the people with whom you plant." One of the results, not, we apprehend, originally contemplated, is that these " wicked condemned men,"... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...is true, speedy profit is not to be neglected, as far as may stand with the good of the plantations, but no farther. It is a shameful and unblessed thing,...their country, to the discredit of the plantation Consider, likewise, what commodities the soil, where the plantation is, doth naturally yield, that... | |
| Charles Bernard Gibson - Crime - 1863 - 330 pages
...against transportation in his time. " It is a shameless and unblessed thing, to take the scum of the people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people...but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals." This does not necessarily follow ; and as they must live somewhere, the colonies, where labour is required,... | |
| Royal Society of Tasmania - Science - 1894 - 810 pages
...Bacon had been heeded ; for, says he—" It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of the people and wicked condemned men to be the people with...and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation, for tlmey will ever live like rogues and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals... | |
| 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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