...which our transatlantic colonies were known. 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 j and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation. Bacon, Essays, 33. Pktntations make mankind broader,...

...Bacon says: "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men, with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief; spend victuals and be quickly weary."f Immediately upon * The colony was provided with fishing-nets,...

...had said : '. It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men with whom you plant, and not only so, but it spoileth...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief, spend victuals and be quickly weary." — Campbell, page 30, Bacon's Works, vol. I, page 41. Bacon...

...Bacon says: "It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, wicked, condemned men, with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth...and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief; spend victuals and be quickly weary. "f Immediately upon * The colony was provided with fishing -nets,...

...of many commisserable' persons. ANNOTATIONS. ' 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? Yet two-and-a-half centuries after Bacon's time, the English government, in opposition to the remonstrances...

...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...

...the good of the plantations, but no farther. It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people...their country, to the discredit of the plantation Consider, likewise, what commodities the soil, where the plantation is, doth naturally yield, that...

...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,...

...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...

...not onely so, but it spoylet/t the plantation, for they will live like rogues, and not fall to work, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certifie over to the country, to the disgrace of the Commonwealth." Strachey dedicates his Historie...