 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 506 pages
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1876 - 508 pages
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - English language - 1876 - 184 pages
...bear privation with fortitude, but not to taste pleasure with moderation. — Macaulay. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. — Macaulay. NOTE. — Observe, in the last passage, how the balance is obtained by putting... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - Religion - 1876 - 522 pages
...suited the fanatical temperament of the Puritans, who, Macaulay says, disapproved of bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators ; so that in fifty or sixty years strict Sunday observance was adopted into the Westminster Catechism,... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 pages
...entertainments at their mansions. (It has been wittily observed that the Puritans suppressed the sport of bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it afforded pleasure to the people !) We find in the public records of the time of the Protectorate, that... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - German literature - 1877 - 650 pages
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty pf men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ludeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear".***... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Great Britain - 1877 - 738 pages
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.*... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - German literature - 1877 - 642 pages
...legislature to interfere for tlie purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of torruenting both spectators and bear".***... | |
 | J. L. Stackpole - 1879 - 28 pages
...all sports there are many persons who exemplify Macaulay's remark about the Puritans, — that " they hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator." These extremists, and those who sincerely believe that it is wrong to take the life of... | |
 | Henry Martyn Dexter - Autographs - 1880 - 1110 pages
...that perhaps most quoted mot of all his History [Hist. Eng. (Harper's ed.), i: 151]: "The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." and dishevelled hair, and every token of frenzied excitement, before I conclude him insane it will... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
