 | 1893 - 840 pagina’s
...Christmastree equally with the Maypole, and raged against bear-baiting, not, in Macaulay's famous phrase, because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators, were as violent as Laud himself in subordinating the cause of truth to their own particular shibboleths.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pagina’s
...abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries. It is to be remarked that their antipathy to this sport had nothing in common with...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* * How little compassion for the bear had to do with the matter is sufficiently proved by the following... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pagina’s
...abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries. It is to be remarked that their antipathy to this sport had nothing in common with...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pagina’s
...antipathy to this sport had nothing -in •common with the feeling which has, in our own time, induced *fee legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* .:••'!./ •>. . i m- •: i i. ,i+j fi •;. • • , ; nr. .' r ': n •, •.if-• Tfi i-tt... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pagina’s
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The'Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear. * *How litlle compassion for the bear had to do with the matter is sufficiently proved by the following... | |
 | 1849 - 546 pagina’s
...interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan haled bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear,...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." — p. 151. Any future writer upon rhetoric, who may have occasion to speak of the risk of offending... | |
 | 1849 - 542 pagina’s
...interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan haled bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear,...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." — p. 151. Any future writer upon rhetoric, who may have occasion to speak of the risk of offending... | |
 | 1849 - 556 pagina’s
...the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-bailing, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." — p. 151. Any future writer upon rhetoric, who may have occasion to speak of the risk of offending... | |
 | 1849 - 424 pagina’s
...wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not becanse it gave pain to the bear, but becanse it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.' The Council of the People's Charter Union met on Friday and fixed Tuesday, January 16, for the Quarterly... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pagina’s
...high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators! " The pleasure taken by a brutal mob of spectators, in making themselves still more brutish by looking... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
