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" The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "
MacMillan's Magazine - Page 375
edited by - 1893
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...wrapping them about their own souls, persisted in endeavoring to twist about those of their neighbors. The sad-visaged men, with yokes of names, who prowled...that it was possible to be as intolerant in a steeple hat as in a shovel one. Like all religious fanatics Fox was impressed with the fact that he had secured...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 46

1849 - 556 pages
...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 it. gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

1849 - 606 pages
...which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the 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 History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...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.*...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 46

1849 - 542 pages
...purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan haled 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 tormenting both spectators and bear."...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 7-8

1849 - 858 pages
...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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The History of England from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 480 pages
...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.*...
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Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to the Embarkation of ...

Massachusetts - 1850 - 264 pages
...one, it may be, as Macaulay had in his mind when he wrote that " the Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." J He is styled " Sir Henry Rosewell, of Ford Abbey, in the county of Devon ; " and the possession of...
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A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the ...

Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...enjoyment.* ยป Yet Macaulay (in his History of England) declares that: "The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators;" and that "he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 pages
...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, lie generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.*...
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