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" The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "
A System of Rhetoric - Page 471
by Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 673 pages
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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, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 pages
...the Legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...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
...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 History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 pages
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...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 History of England: From the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

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...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 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, 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
...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, 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 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 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
...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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