 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 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 of...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... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1861 - 372 pages
...Plantations [colonies] Bacon remarks most justly that "it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scorn of people, and wicked condemned men to be the people with whom yon plant ; " and he adds that " it spoileth the plantation." Yet two and a-half centuries after his... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 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,... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 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... | |
 | Joseph Sylvester Clark, Henry Martyn Dexter, Alonzo Hall Quint, Isaac Pendleton Langworthy, Christopher Cushing, Samuel Burnham - 1863 - 408 pages
...philosopher, and recorded his observations in one of his famous " Essays," that " 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 not only so, but it spoileth the plantation,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...Comminerablo. Worthy of compassion. ' This commieerable person, Edward.' .—Bacon's Heary VII. ' It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of...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... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - 1864 - 336 pages
...change, are in accordance with the dictum of the great and far-seeing BACON, who declared that ' it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to he the people with whom you plant.' " Those who have joined in the clamour for returning to Transportation,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...to be neglected, as far as it may stand with the good of the [6] plantation, but no farther. It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of...weary, and then certify over to their country to the [7] discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen, labourers,... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1867 - 656 pages
...Plantations (says Bacon, speaking of Colonies) are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. — It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the scum of...plantation: for they will ever live like rogues, and not fell to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1867 - 358 pages
...streets and the leavings 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 of...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... | |
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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, and... 
