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" The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "
The History of England: From the Accession of James the Second - Page 161
by Thomas Babington 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 the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 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...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct...
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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." โ€” 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 - 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." โ€” 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." โ€” 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
...was the abomination 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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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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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - 552 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...because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, lie generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* * How...
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A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the ...

Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...prevent innocent 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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