 | Thomas Garrard - 1852 - 536 pages
...travelling shows — which will suffice as exemplifications : — 1 " 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."... | |
 | Horace Bushnell - 1853 - 154 pages
...going on between our politicians and the clergy." Macaulay said : "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."... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1857 - 560 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." 1 He is styled " Sir Henry Rosewell, of Ford Abbey, in the county of Devon ; " and the possession of... | |
 | George Anthony Denison - 1862 - 358 pages
...Macaulay, describing the times of the Commonwealth, tells us that 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."... | |
 | 1862 - 562 pages
...amusements, innocent as well as harmless ? Macaulay observes, " The Puritans disapproved of bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave, pleasure to the people." Was Puritanism a struggle after true religion, or was it a mangling of the vestments of religion... | |
 | United States. Department of Agriculture - 1863 - 806 pages
...say that they object to racing, as Macanley says the early Puritans objected to bear-baitiug, " not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Undoubtedly, the practice of betting is intimately associated with the turf; but so it also is with... | |
 | U.S. Congress - 1863 - 780 pages
...say that they object to racing, as Macauley says the early Puritans objected to bear-baiting, "not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Undoubtedly, the practice of betting is intimately associated with the turf; but so it also is with... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1864 - 842 pages
...say that they object to racing, as Macau Icy says the early Puritans objected* to bear-baiting, "not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Undoubtedly, the practice of betting is intimately associated with the turf; but so it also is with... | |
 | 1864 - 974 pages
...against such as presumed to blame the Calvinistic form of worship. 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."... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 pages
...Fudges, and their historians. — SHELLEY. Dedication to Peter Bell The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.* History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. WASHINGTON IRVING. 1783-1859. Free-livers on a small scale ; who... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
