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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,... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 286
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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American Baptist Home Missions: Annual Report

Baptists - 1853 - 946 pages
...elements. Bacon, speaking of colonies as being amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works, says, "It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the...plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and'not fall to work but be lazy, ami do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then...
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Tait's Edinburgh magazine, Volume 20

1853 - 782 pages
...of colonization, to be liable to the charge contained in the declaration of the great Bacon, that " it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant." Among the most valuable influences subsidiary to education, Mr. Hill mentions cheap literature and...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. A good continued speed), country to the discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen,...
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The Landing at Cape Anne; Or, the Charter of the First Permanent Colony on ...

John Wingate Thornton - Ann, Cape (Mass.) - 1854 - 116 pages
...Bacon, in his essay on "plantations" says that " it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only...and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation ; " and this was verified in less than fifty years after...
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The Landing at Cape Anne: Or, The Charter of the First Permanent Colony on ...

John Wingate Thornton - Ann, Cape (Mass.) - 1854 - 112 pages
...Bacon, in his essay on "plantations" says that " it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum to be the people with whom you plant; and not only...be lazy and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be qtiickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation ; " and this...
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The History of British Guiana: Comprising a General Description of ..., Volume 1

Henry G. Dalton - Guyana - 1855 - 558 pages
...the plantation, but no further." And again, and here, too, his wisdom anticipated thejslave trade : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation." In these remarkable expressions we have mapped out, as...
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A Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies: Original and Selected ...

Mrs. Jameson (Anna) - Art and literature - 1855 - 398 pages
...counselled to James I. the plantation of Ulster exactly on the principle he has here deprecated.) He adds, " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant" (ie colonise). And it is only now that our politicians are beginning to discover and act upon this...
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy, Delivered at Oxford, in Easter ...

Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 398 pages
...and of which he was Chairman, has sat, and has sent in a highly valuable Report. ON PENAL COLONIES. "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant," — LORD BACON. SINCE the first publication of the following pages, the principles advocated in them...
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Introductory Lectures on Political-economy, Delivered at Oxford, in Easter ...

Richard Whately - Civilization - 1855 - 396 pages
...and of which he was Chairman, has sat, and has sent in a highly valuable Report. ON PENAL COLONIES. "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant,"—LORD BACON. SINCE the first publication of the following pages, the principles advocated...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...as may stand with the good of the plantation, but no further. It is a shameful and unblessed thing 1 to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men,...and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen,...
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