| 1893 - 840 sider
...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 Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 664 sider
...the Legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illus* How little compassiou for the bear had to do with... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1849 - 470 sider
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1849 - 884 sider
...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 - 546 sider
...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 - 542 sider
...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 - 556 sider
...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 - 606 sider
...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 - 858 sider
...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 - 552 sider
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, lie generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* * How... | |
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