 | Philip Van Ness Myers - 1888 - 800 sivua
...to profligacy, economy to extravagance, Bible1 Macaulay humorously insists that the Puritans opposed bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. study, psalm-singing, and exhorting to theatre-going, profanity, and carousing. The literature... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1889 - 478 sivua
...remarked that their antipathy to this sport had nothing in common with the feeling which has, in cmown time, induced the legislature to interfere for the...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly il* How little compassion for the bear had to do with... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 172 sivua
...Measure, v. I. 358, " Show your knave's visage . . . show your sheep-biting face ! " 8 A bear-bailing. "The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." (MACAULAY, History of England, vol. i. chap. 2.) "Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian... | |
 | Claire Kehrwald Cook, Modern Language Association of America - 1985 - 244 sivua
...Samuel 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... | |
 | Lee Siegel - 1987 - 532 sivua
...floor," my friend smiled and poured himself another tumbler full of scotch. The Precept about Harm The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Thomas Macaulay, History of England Despite the moral obligation to refrain from harming any living... | |
 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - 1986 - 680 sivua
...the discovery, but which is quite dead, even when it is discovered. Macaulay said that the Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Of such substance also was this Puritan who had lost his God. April 25, 1908 The Fiercer Suffragettes... | |
 | 1917 - 592 sivua
...did care if the 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... | |
 | Allen Guttmann - 1988 - 248 sivua
...curiosity. THREE PURITANS AT 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 sivua
...The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. HL Mencken (1800-1956) American journalist The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...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 sivua
...1 Macaulay seemingly 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. 
