...upon this iniquitous method of raising up colonies : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing," he says, "to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned...whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantations ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief...

...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...

...faults are numberless. As to the former, Bacon's words in his Essay on plantations may be quoted : ' It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...condemned men to be the people with whom you plant.' As to the latter, a good description of French official corruption in Canada will be found in Parkman's...

...as may stand with the good of the plantation, but no further. It is a shameful and unblessed thing l to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men,...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...

...woods ; for you must make account to leese almost twenty years profit, and expect your 10 recompense in the end. For the principal thing that hath been...and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then 20 certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation. The people wherewith you plant...

...streets and the leavings of the London stews. It was this my Lord Bacou 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...

...whether Bacon thought of Maine or Virginia, or of general custom in planting colonies, when he wrote : " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...wicked condemned men to be the people with whom you plant."2 In the first decade of Philadelphia, as in the infancy of most colonies, all laborers were...

...people and wicked condemned men to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoiled) the plantation, for they will ever live like rogues...their country to the discredit of the plantation." All which things were verified in the early history of these Colonies. But Australia " has burst her...

...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...

...contemporaneous writers in opposition to the practice in Pennsylvania, cirri: 1750 ; Hening, II., 509-511. • " It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum...only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they ever live like rogues, and not fall to work ; but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend abandoned the...