...and 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...

...make 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...

...of England the nineteenth-century Whig historian Lord Macaulay tells us that the seventeenth-century "Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."14 In fact it was not uncommon for Puritans to kill the bears to prevent the baiting! In the...

...Bear-baiting was a potent symbol of the old 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,...

...contradictories or contraries: 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;...

...Emerson When no wind 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...

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

...the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic in the world. 6831 History of England The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 6832 History of England There were gentlemen and there were seamen in the navy of Charles the Second....

...dress, furniture, repasts, and public amusements. The History of England (1848) 1901 :Vol. 1. 3. 12 The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...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...

...about the Salem witch trials, or in Lord Macaulay's damning quote about the Puritans' opposition to bear-baiting: 'not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators'. This is defamation. The Puritan movement came to England with the accession of Elizabeth, in 1558,...