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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 288
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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The Essays of Lord Bacon

Francis Bacon - English essays - 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...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

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...
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The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell, Issue 514

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...
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The Works of Charles Sumner, Volume 9

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,...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

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,...their country, to the discredit of the plantation. . . . Consider, likewise, what commodities the soil, where the plantation is, doth naturally yield,...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 2

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...drawing of profit in the first years. It is true, speedy profit is not to be neglected, 15 as far as it may stand with the good of the plantation, but no...with whom you plant. And not only so, but it spoileth 20 the plantation. For they will ever live like rogues, and 3\ ©f plantations n not fall to work,...
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The poetical works of James Russell Lowell. Household ed

James Russell Lowell - 1876 - 434 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...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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The Heroes of Young America

Ascott Robert Hope Moncrieff - United States - 1877 - 368 pages
...it is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of the people and wicked condemned men to lie the people with whom you plant ; and not only so,...their country to the discredit of the plantation." At the Mermaid Tavern Smith may have drank a cup of sack with Shakspeare himself, and narrated to the...
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The Poetical Works of James Russel Lowell

James Russell Lowell - 1877 - 572 pages
...streets 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...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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A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected

Anna Brownell Jameson - 1877 - 486 pages
...to 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...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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