 | 1893 - Počet stránok 840
...Christmastree equally with the Maypole, and raged against bear-baiting, not, in Macaulay's famous phrase, because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators, were as violent as Laud himself in subordinating the cause of truth to their own particular shibboleths.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - Počet stránok 884
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The'Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear. * *How litlle compassion for the bear had to do with the matter is sufficiently proved by the following... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 542
...interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan haled bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear,...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." — p. 151. Any future writer upon rhetoric, who may have occasion to speak of the risk of offending... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 546
...interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan haled bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear,...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." — p. 151. Any future writer upon rhetoric, who may have occasion to speak of the risk of offending... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 556
...the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-bailing, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear." — p. 151. Any future writer upon rhetoric, who may have occasion to speak of the risk of offending... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 424
...wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not becanse it gave pain to the bear, but becanse it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.' The Council of the People's Charter Union met on Friday and fixed Tuesday, January 16, for the Quarterly... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 606
...high and low, was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators! " The pleasure taken by a brutal mob of spectators, in making themselves still more brutish by looking... | |
 | 1849 - Počet stránok 858
...Puritans did, when, for example, according to the testimony of Macaulay, they interdicted bear-beating, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators ; or whether they, by some idiosyncracy which we cannot understand, really find their eccbsiastical... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850 - Počet stránok 552
...there is much enjoyment there will be some excess: yet, on the whole, the spirit in which the holiday in our own time, induced the legislature to interfere...because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, lie generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* * How... | |
 | Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - Počet stránok 212
...morose desire to prevent innocent enjoyment.* » Yet Macaulay (in his History of England) declares that: "The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave...bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators;" and that "he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."... | |
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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 
