...has been amused, with -Macaulay's characteristic assertion that " the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Few readers, however, are probably aware that Hume expresses identically the same idea. " Bear-baiting,"...

...has been amused, with Macaulay's characteristic assertion that '' the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Few readers, however, are probably aware that Hume expresses identically the same idea. " Bear-baiting,"...

...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...

...has been amused, with Macaulay's characteristic assertion that '' the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Few readers, however, are probably aware that Hume expresses identically the same idea. " Bear-baiting,"...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...