 | 1889 - 660 pages
...their pens to fight with ; they were objectors per se (as Macaulay says, they opposed bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator), and, while there were official censors of the stage in plenty, there were no censors of... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - 1890 - 462 pages
...mince-pie at Christmas. Fox-hunting and horse-racing were forbidden, and bear-baiting prohibited, " not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." In such an age, when a man could hardly claim to be religious unless he wore sad-colored raiment, talked... | |
 | Richard S. Peale - 1890 - 548 pages
...snow-fall In the river, A moment white, then melts forever. Burns. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because It gave pain to the bear, but because It gave pleasure to the spectators. Macaulay. A man of pleasure Is a man of pains. Toung. The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...bear-baitings. (Macaulay, it will be remembered, said that the Puritans disapproved of bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.) The humor of Hudibras is not of the finest. The knight and the squire are discomfited in broadly comic... | |
 | Claire Kehrwald Cook, Modern Language Association of America - 1985 - 244 pages
...Johnson, "but celibacy has no pleasures." "The Puritan hated bear-baiting," Macauley explains, "not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Deprived of their parallel structure, some famous quotations lose their punch: I come for the purpose... | |
 | 1917 - 592 pages
...munition workers made their profits. He reminds one of Macauley's Puritan who opposed bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. We could retail certain weird statements from LaFollette's own circle such as that "Wilson went into... | |
 | Lee Siegel - 1987 - 532 pages
...himself another tumbler full of scotch. The Precept about Harm The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Macaulay, History of England Despite the moral obligation to refrain from harming any living... | |
 | Allen Guttmann - 1988 - 248 pages
...PLAY? ACCUSATIONS AND REPLIES "The Puritan," quipped Thomas Babington Macaulay, "hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Several generations of British historians have shared Macaulay's witticism with their students. For... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...somewhere, may be happy. HL Mencken (1800-1956) American journalist The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Lord Macaulay (1800-1859) English historian A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into... | |
 | Kenneth Hylson-Smith - 1992 - 423 pages
...had an eye to the Evangelicals of his generation in his jibe that the Puritans 'hated bearbaiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators'.12 There is some truth in these retorts. The Evangelicals certainly stressed the need for... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
