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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... "
The Natural History of Society in the Barbarous and Civilized State: An ... - Page 280
by William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 347 pages
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A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...James I. the plantation of Ulster exactly on the principle he has here deprecated.) He adds : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of...condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant " (ie colonise). And it is only now that our politicians are. beginning to discover and act upon this...
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The Poetical Works of James Russel Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...and the leavings of the London stews. It was this my Lord Bacon had in mind when lie 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 Jiad an litios been beyond...
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The Essays

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 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 20 to worke, but be Lazie, and doe Mischiefe, and spend Victuals, and be quickly weary, and then Certifie"...
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The Essays of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1908 - 414 pages
...is not to be neglected, as far as may stand l with the good of the plantation, but no further. 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 ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will...
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Essays, Civil and Moral and the New Atlantis

Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...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 of...and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify3 over to their country to the discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...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 of...ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be laty, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify6 over to their country...
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - 1909 - 360 pages
...and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will * Scornful jest. 1 Colonies. a Lose. ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be...and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify8 over to their country to the discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant ought...
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The Life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: England's First Empire Builder

William Gilbert Gosling - 1911 - 368 pages
...writes, "to take the scum of the people and wicked, condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant, for they will ever live like rogues and not fall to...mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, to the discredit of the plantation." Painfully was Gilbert to realize this truth even in his short...
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The Life of Sir Humphrey Gilbert: England's First Empire Builder

William Gilbert Gosling - 1911 - 362 pages
...Bacon detected the fallacy. "It is a shameful and unblessed thing," he writes, "to take the scum of the people and wicked, 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 victuals,...
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The Modern Review, Volume 9

Ramananda Chatterjee - 1911 - 778 pages
...sense, a philanthropic project or one framed in pursuit of an ideal. Bacon long before had declared it " a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked and condemned men " to plant a colony ; and for all the British Government knew he was right,J but...
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