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" But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the 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 the feeling which has,... "
The History of England from the Accession of James the Second - Page 119
by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...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....
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 560 pages
...puppet-shows, bowls, horse-racing, were regarded with no friendly eye. But bear-baiting, then a favorite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which...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...
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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 550 pages
...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...
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The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second

Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 pages
...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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 46

1849 - 546 pages
...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...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 46

1849 - 542 pages
...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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 46

1849 - 556 pages
...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...
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The Reasoner, Volume 6

1849 - 424 pages
...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...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

1849 - 606 pages
...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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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 7-8

1849 - 858 pages
...Puritans did, when, for example, according to the testimony of Macaulay, they interdicted bear-beating, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators ; or whether they, by some idiosyncracy which we cannot understand, really find their eccbsiastical...
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