 | Alexander Falconer Murison - 1875 - 380 sivua
...health. 9. An ash or a 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... | |
 | Newton Abbot College - 1875 - 354 sivua
...solitude, take his stand on a 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... | |
 | Joseph Henry Allen - 1875 - 596 sivua
...thought to do it 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 sivua
...not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen.1 History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.2 Ibid. Vol. i. Ch. 3. To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 sivua
...bowls, horseracing, were regarded with no friendly eye. But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear. Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 sivua
...bowls, horseracing, were regarded with no friendly eye. But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear. Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct... | |
 | James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - 184 sivua
...accustomed him to bear privation with fortitude, but not to taste pleasure with moderation. — Macaulay. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. — Macaulay. NOTE. — Observe, in the last passage, how the balance is obtained by putting... | |
 | Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1876 - 522 sivua
...suited the fanatical temperament of the Puritans, who, Macaulay says, disapproved of bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators ; so that in fifty or sixty years strict Sunday observance was adopted into the Westminster Catechism,... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - 642 sivua
...in common with the feeling which has, in our own time, induced the legislature to interfere for tlie purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty...generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of torruenting both spectators and bear".*** Dieser sich allenthalben offenbarende Fanatismus ist es,... | |
 | Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - 650 sivua
...induced the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty pf men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ludeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear".***... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
