 PLANTATIONS are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. When the world was young, it begat more children ; but now it is old, it begets fewer ; for I may justly account new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms. I like a plantation...  Essays moral, economical and political - Pàgina 115per Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 196 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lewis Samuel Feuer - 1989 - 276 pàgines
...must, he noted, establish its "plantations" in unsettled, undeveloped domains across distant seas: "l like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others . . . The people wherewith you plant ought to be gardeners, ploughmen, laborers, smiths, carpenters,... | |
 | Kevin Dunn - 1994 - 266 pàgines
...and his praise of an English model of unadorned strength. To quote once again from "Of Plantations": "I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where...are not displanted to the end to plant in others" (6, 457). It would be a mistake, I think, to attribute Bacon's preference for "purity" of soil to consideration... | |
 | Henry Reynolds - 1996 - 244 pàgines
...hundred and fifty years earlier the English savant Francis Bacon wrote in his essay On Plantations: 'I like a plantation in a pure soil, that is, where...others, for else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation'.1 Australia was not 'a pure soil' in 1788. For generations indigenous Australians were... | |
 | John Martin Evans - 1996 - 220 pàgines
...Francis Bacon, who declared in his essay Of Plantations (London, 1625) that he only approved of colonies "where people are not displanted to the end to plant...else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation" (Sidney Warhaft, Franäs Bacon: A Selection of His Works [Toronto: Macmillan, 1965], p. 134). Perhaps... | |
 | Myra Jehlen, Michael Warner - 1997 - 1148 pàgines
...Plantations are amongst Ancient, Primitive, and Heroicall Workes. When the World was young, it begate more Children; but now it is old, it begets fewer....account new Plantations, to be the Children of former Kingdomes. I like a Plantation in a Pure Soile; that is, where People are not Displanted, to the end,... | |
 | John Wilson Foster, Helena C. G. Chesney - 1998 - 702 pàgines
...Ireland usually required a radical clearing of the ground for building and sowing. Bacon preferred plantation 'in a pure soil; that is, where people...else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation' (Bacon, 1942). In Ireland it was a dispossession by the English (and later the Ulster Scots) when it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1999 - 276 pàgines
...is blunt. 33. OF PLANTATIONS* Plantations are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical4 works. When the world was young* it begat more children; but now...the end to plant in others. For else it is rather an ext1rpation5 than a plantation. Planting of countries is like planting of woods; for you must make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pàgines
...amongst Ancient, Primitive, and Heroicall Workes. When the World was young, it begate more Children; 5 But now it is old, it begets fewer: For I may justly...account new Plantations, to be the Children of former Kingdomes. I like a Plantation in a Pure Soile; that is, where People are not Displanted, to the end,... | |
 | Stephen Adams - 2001 - 326 pàgines
...English. Francis Bacon articulated the qualms just below the surface of much English colonial writing: "I like a plantation in a pure soil; that is, where...else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation" (12:194). Even if there are some people in Virginia, the English argued, they do not own the land and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pàgines
...PLANTATIONs0 PLANTATIONs are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical0 works. When the world was young0 it begat more children; but now it is old it begets...justly account new plantations to be the children of former0 kingdoms. I like a plantation in a pure soil;0 that is, where people0 are not displanted0 to... | |
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