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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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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable3 persons. ANNOTATIONS. 'It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plaut.' Yet two-and-a-half centuries after Bacon's time, the English government, in opposition to the...
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Selections from the Irish Quarterly Review: 2d ser. ...

1857 - 986 pages
...that while we pollute our colonies with the most degraded members of society, which, as Bacon hath it, " is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ;" we at the same time reward and encourage crime. It is manifest that, whatever force these objections...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...for, besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable3 persons. ANNOTATIONS. 'It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...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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The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...as far as may ftand with the Good of the Plantation, but no farther. It is a fhameful and unbleffed Thing to take the Scum of People and wicked condemned...to be the People with whom you Plant; and not only fo, but it fpoileth the Plantation ; for they will ever live like Rogues, and not fall to work, but...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...profit is not to be neglected, as far as may stand with the good of the plantation, but no further. 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. The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...profit is not to be neglected, as far as may stand with the good of the plantation, but no further. 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. The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen,...
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History of North Carolina: With Maps and Illustrations, Volumes 1-2

Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1858 - 624 pages
...written at the request of the first Virginia company. " It is a shameful and unblessed thing" (says he) " to take the scum of people, and wicked, condemned...whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation."1 The transportation of felons convict is, at this day, an established and prominent feature...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Philosophy - 1858 - 620 pages
...besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable3 persons. ANNOTATIONS. ' // 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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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1859 - 176 pages
...neglected, as far as it may stand with the good of the plantation, but no farther. It is a shameful ana unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked...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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A select glossary of English words used formerly in senses different from ...

Richard Chenevix Trench (abp. of Dublin.) - English language - 1859 - 256 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...; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation, Bacon, Essays, 33. Plantations make mankind broader, as generation makes it thicker. Fuller, The Holy...
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