 It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation, once in forwardness : for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.  The Advancement of Learning - Page 345by Francis Bacon - 1885 - 376 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ian Duncan Colvin - Great Britain - 1919 - 256 pages
...Sovereign States." The pitiful tone of this memorial reminds us of the indignant words of Bacon : " It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness, for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons."... | |
 | John Presland - Devon (England). - 1920 - 240 pages
...home. Grenville planted another fifteen men there, who were never afterwards heard of. Says Bacon : " It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness ; for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many miserable persons."... | |
 | Charles Strachan Sanders Higham - History - 1921 - 296 pages
...was finally solved by the English conquest of St Christopher. FRENCH AND ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES It is the sinfullest Thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a Plantation, once in Forwardnesse. For besides the Dishonour, it is the Guiltinesse of Bloud, of many Commiserable Persons. BACON, Of... | |
 | Charles Strachan Sanders Higham - History - 1921 - 296 pages
...was finally solved by the English conquest of St Christopher. FRENCH AND ENGLISH IN THE WEST INDIES It is the sinfullest Thing in the world, to forsake or destitute a Plantation, once in Forwardnesse. For besides the Dishonour, it is the Guiltinesse of Bloud, of many Commiserable Persons. BACON, Of... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - Europe - 1921 - 502 pages
...be sought beyond what may "stand with the good of the plantation." Above all, it is " the simplest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness." The great crisis in the history of Virginia happened after Shakespeare's death ; but... | |
 | George Bruner Parks - Discoveries (in geography) - 1928 - 368 pages
...disease. For I doubt not that the sentiment had already crystallized that was to be expressed by Bacon : " It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness." * Governor White had already tried in 1588 to relieve his colony and his family, but... | |
 | Asia - 1922 - 738 pages
...credit, or, in other words, our good name. As Francis Bacon says in his essay " On Plantations " : " It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness ; for, beside the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons."... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 pages
...exports. * Overloading. the plantation may spread into generations, and not be ever pieced from without. It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness; for besides the dishonor, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable* persons.... | |
 | John Horace Parry - Colonization - 1981 - 388 pages
...orderly account of the land, its flora and fauna, and its people, as observed by a good scientific mind. 'It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness, for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.'3... | |
 | Mary C. Fuller - History - 1995 - 230 pages
...Colony" was as much of a misadventure as Gilbert's fatal voyage; Bacon wrote in "Of Plantations" that "it is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation once in forwardness." But the scandal of abandoning a colony was turned to gold, and Ralegh's "Lost Colony"... | |
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