...estimated his character from his death rather than from his life." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. " " If Boswell had not been a great fool, he would never have been a great writer." "Tacitus tells...

...which we have just been speaking. Macaulay's hard saying, that " the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators," ia neither in strictness true, nor worthy of the grave historian of the English Revolution. The Puritans...

...because it is a protest against this opinion. Macaulay said that the Puritans disliked bear-baiting', not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the men. In the same way, modern thought sets its face against intolerance, not because intolerance denies...

...fathers, but a sorrow to us. That snarling remark of Macaulay that " the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators," is simply a blunder, or a falsehood, certainly so far as it relates to those who consented to expatriation...

...Puritans did a good work when they abolished bear-baiting, even though, as Macaulay says, they did so, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. But, up to the present day, there is a latent hankering after similar scenes, even though they are...

...stand, shapeless and nameless ruins in the Macaulay continued.] The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.1 History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late,...

...broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — (cf. Hume. ' the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.'^ This is the highest miracle of...

...only for the chance of attacking the others ; as Macaulay says the Puritans abhorred bearbaiting, "not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." juventutem invasere, came upon the youth. — rapere, etc., histor. infin. — consumere, waste (in...

...sycamore every now and then threw its shadow across the path. 10. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 11. The governing principle of Walpole's conduct was neither love of peace nor love of war, but love...

...Stow's Annales, ed. 1631. 1 Act III. sc. vii. 11. 150 — 155. * "The Puritan hated bearbaiting, nu-. 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."...