 | Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, Anna Lydia Ward - 1882 - 926 sivua
...But human creatures' lives. A. HOOD— Hong of the Shirt. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not becanee it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. i. MACAULAÏ- History of England. Vol. I. Ch. Ш. As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; They... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 sivua
...But the seamen were not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen.3 Vol. i. Ch. 2. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.3 Vol. i. Ch. 3. 1 Compare Fielding. Page 308. - I have read their platform; but I pee nothing... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 sivua
...Gazette. Every one is familiar, and has been amused, with Macaulay's characteristic assertion that '' the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Few readers, however, are probably aware that Hume expresses identically the same idea. " Bear-baiting,"... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 sivua
...Gazette. Every one is familiar, and has been amused, with Macaulay's characteristic assertion that ' ' the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Few readers, however, are probably aware that Hume expresses identically the same idea. " Bear-baiting,"... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 sivua
...Gazette. Every one is familiar, and has been amused, with Macaulay's characteristic assertion that '' the Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Few readers, however, are probably aware that Hume expresses identically the same idea. " Bear-baiting,"... | |
 | 1884 - 720 sivua
...Suck his claws, And 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... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1884 - 202 sivua
...most brutal diversions of 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... | |
 | John De Witt - 1885 - 442 sivua
...Puritans of the days of 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... | |
 | 1885 - 224 sivua
...esteemed heathenish and 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... | |
 | Essays - 1885 - 250 sivua
...esteemed heathenish and 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... | |
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The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
