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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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A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from ...

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,...
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The African Repository, Volume 36

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...
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History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

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,...
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History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia

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,...
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Bacon's Essays

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...
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Miscellaneous Lectures and Reviews

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,"...
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A manual of English literature

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,...and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country, to the discredit of the plantation Consider, likewise, what commodities the soil, where the...
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The Congregational Quarterly, Volume 5

Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - Congregational churches - 1863 - 408 pages
...Of Plantations " : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked and condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant...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 gardners, ploughmen,...
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Life Among Convicts, Volume 2

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,...
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Monthly Notices of Papers and Proceedings and Report

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...
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