 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1874 - 558 pages
...illustrations. It is in the Essay on "Plantations" that Bacon thus brands the early settlement of Virginia : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...wicked condemned men to be the people with whom you 1 Howisnn, History of Virginia, Vol. I. p. 169. * Ibid., Vol. II. p. 201. plant ; and not only so,... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1889 - 674 pages
..."Plantations (says Bacon, speaking of Colonies) are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. — It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the...rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do misthief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1862 - 782 pages
...unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men, with whom you plant, and not only BO, but it spoileth the plantation, for they will ever...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief, spend victuals and be quickly weary.' "—Campbell, p. 30. Bacon's Works, vol. i., p. 41. Bacon says... | |
 | Osborne William Tancock - English language - 1872 - 364 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...woods ; for you must make account to leese ' almost twenty years' profit, and expect your recompense in the end. For the principal thing that hath been...and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify2 over to their country to the discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...is true, speedy profit is not to bo neglected, as far as may stand with the good of the plantations, but no farther. It is a shameful and unblessed thing,...people with whom you plant. And not only so, but it spoilcth the plantation, for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - American poetry - 1873 - 484 pages
...streets and the leavmgs of the London stews. It was this my Lord Bacon had in mind when he wrote : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men to be the people with whom you plant." That certain names are found there is nothing to the purpose, for, even had an alias been beyond the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...drawing of profit in the first years. It is true, speedy profit is not to be neglected, as far as it may stand' with the good of the plantation, but no...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,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 568 pages
...early settlement of Virginia : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take tlir .irum of pcople and wicked condemned men to be the people with whom...plantation, for they will ever live like rogues." Surely there is nothing in this out of which to construct a " cavalier." In the narrative of Moll Flanders,... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 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... | |
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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,... 
