 | John Alexander Ferguson - Australia - 1976 - 704 pages
...House of Lords, | on the igth of May, 1840, by [ Richard Whately, DD j Archbishop of Dublin. | --- "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant."— Lord Bacon. --- London: B. Fellowes, Ludgate Street. 1840. Roy. 8vo. Pp. viii, [g]-i2o (last blank).... | |
 | John Martin Evans - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 220 pages
...colonial policy in Virginia to be published in the seventeenth century, Sir Francis Bacon insisted that "it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy." His observation was based, no doubt, on the frustrating experience of men like Captain Smith, who complained... | |
 | Deborah Oxley - Business & Economics - 1996 - 358 pages
...century Francis Bacon warned against colonising America through transportation, protesting that it was 'a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ... for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - History - 1997 - 1148 pages
...the Good of the Plantation, but no further. It is a Shamefull and Unblessed Thing, to take the Scumme of People, and Wicked Condemned Men, to be the People...For they will ever live like Rogues, and not fall to worke, but be Lazie, and doe Mischiefe, and spend Victuals, and be quickly weary, and then Certifie... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...profit is not to be neglected, as far as may stand with10 the good of the plantation, but no further. It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend" victuals,12 and be quickly weary, and then certify* over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...the Good of the Plantation, but no further. It is a Shamefull and Unblessed Thing, to take the Scumme of People, and Wicked Condemned Men, to be the People...And not only so, but it spoileth the Plantation; For 20 they will ever live like Rogues, and not fall to worke, but be Lazie, and doe Mischiefe, and spend... | |
 | Lee Miller - History - 2001 - 406 pages
...so doing, enter the world of a madman. 11 THE SECOND ROANOKE EXPEDITION: LANE'S COMMAND (1585-1586) It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, ana not Jail to work; but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, ana' be quickly weary, and... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2002 - 282 pages
...waste much thought on distant savages or lonely pioneers. One must wait for Bacon's complaint that 'it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant', just as 'it is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a 23 To the Troops at Tilbury,... | |
 | Georg Rusche, Otto Kirchheimer - Social Science - 2003 - 322 pages
...to send any more criminals to America. Francis Bacon once made the following pessimistic prophecy: 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.44 After quoting this passage, Holtzendorff, a nineteenth-century... | |
 | Eric Richards - History - 2004 - 420 pages
...in Australia. From the start, convicts as emigrants were not well regarded. Francis Bacon remarked: It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ... for they will live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and of mischief, and spend victuals,... | |
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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,... 
