...the enemy of all fun. "The Puritans hated bearbaiting," Thomas Babington Macaulay once remarked, "not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."1 American undergraduates still respond warmly to this quotation. Like their elders, they...

...business a pleasure, and pleasure my business. — Aaron Burr The Puritans hated bc-ar-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — Thomas Babington Macaulay The rapturous, wild, .uid ineffable pleasure of drinking at someone else's...

...Whig historian Lord Macaulay tells us that the seventeenth-century "Puritan hated bearbaiting, 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."14...

...order, but there was at least a suspicion that, as Macaulay put it The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.'22 This reputation lost them sympathy at all levels of society. In 1643, Charles' Queen,...

...eg life and death, hot and cold, feast or famine ... Macaulay: The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators; Pope: Homer was the greater genius: Virgil, the better artist; in the one, we most admire the man;...

...blows, even the weathervane has character. Stanislaw J. Lec The Puritans objected to bearbaiting not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Macaulay If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design...

...should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY, (1800—1859) British historian, Whig politician. History of England, vol....

...aristocracy the most democratic in the world. 6831 History of England The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not rmed neutrality is ineffectual enough at best. It is a fearful thing to lead this 6832 History of England There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second....

...public amusements. The History of England (1848) 1901 :Vol. 1. 3. 12 The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. The History of England (1848) 1901: Vol. 1. 159. is [Charles Montagu. 1st earl of Halifax] was the...

...closure, which have best summed up the dark side of Puritanism: "The Puritan hated bear-bating, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators" - did not apply to Oliver Cromwell, and were never felt to apply to him at the time. Back in May 1653...