...But human creatures' lives. A. HOOD— Hong of the Shirt. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not becanee it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. i. MACAULAÏ- History of England. Vol. I. Ch. Ш. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They...

...of bigh 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. Indeed he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."...

...But the seamen were not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen.3 Vol. i. Ch. 2. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.3 Vol. i. Ch. 3. 1 Compare Fielding. Page 308. - I have read their platform; but I pee nothing...

...Suck his claws, And quarter himself upon his pawg. — Butler, ' Hudibias.' Unlike the Puritans, who hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators, the poets ' condemn ' the pastime as cruel to Bruin. How barbarously man abuses power ! Talk of the...

...most brutal diversions of the people were sacrificed to his spiritual pride. As Macaulay well says, he hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. The tendency of his creed was, in fact, anti-social. Beauty in his eyes was a snare, and...

...Puritans of the days of Charles I. there is a disposition to attribute to Christianity itself: "They hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Were it worth while to do so, I could show without difficulty that there is abroad an easily recognized...

...esteemed heathenish and unchristian, the sport of it, not the inhumanity, being the offence. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator.— MACAULAY'S " History of England," i., chap. 2. (f.) Walls grown thin permit the mind...

...esteemed heathenish and unchristian, the sport of it, not the inhumanity, being the offence. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator.— MACAULAY'S " History of England," i., chap. 2. (/.} Walls grown thin permit the mind...

...esteemed heathenish and unchristian, the sport of it, not the inhumanity, being the offence. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator.— MACAULAY'S " History of England," i., chap. 2. (f.) Walls grown thin permit the mind...

...pleasure, to non-Christians. As Macaulay says of the Puritans, they objected to bear-baiting, not [localise it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. One of the most surprising things in the discussion to which recent eases have given rise is, that...