 | Mark A. Noll Professor of History Wheaton College - 1989 - 418 sivua
...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... | |
 | Ashton Applewhite, Tripp Evans, Andrew Frothingham - 1992 - 552 sivua
...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... | |
 | Rod Preece, Lorna Chamberlain - 1993 - 345 sivua
...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... | |
 | Derek Birley - 1993 - 372 sivua
...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,... | |
 | Francis P. Dinneen - 1995 - 680 sivua
...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;... | |
 | John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 sivua
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 sivua
...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.... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 sivua
...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.... | |
 | David L. Sills, Robert King Merton - 2000 - 466 sivua
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 458 sivua
...Grosart. — ED.] 9. Beare-baiting] Every one will recall Macaulay's remark that the Puritans objected to bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. — ED. 13. pittie of our Hues] Compare, ' If you thinke I come hither as a Lyon, it were pitty of... | |
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But bearbaiting, then a favourite diversion of high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries. It is to be remarked that their antipathy to this sport had nothing in common with the feeling which has,... 
