| John Bartlett - 1875 - Страниц: 890
...not gentlemen ; and the gentlemen were not seamen.1 History of England. Vol. i. Ch. 2. The Puritans hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.2 Ibid. Vol. i. Ch. 3. To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late, And how can... | |
| New Shakspere Society - 1875 - Страниц: 720
...Stow's Annales, ed. 1631. 1 Act III. sc. vii. 11. 150 — 155. * "The Puritan hated bearbaiting, nu-. because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear."... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - Страниц: 508
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - Страниц: 506
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.... | |
| James Hamblin Smith - 1876 - Страниц: 184
...accustomed him to bear privation with fortitude, but not to taste pleasure with moderation. — Macaulay. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. — Macaulay. NOTE. — Observe, in the last passage, how the balance is obtained by putting... | |
| Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.). Meeting - 1876 - Страниц: 522
...suited the fanatical temperament of the Puritans, who, Macaulay says, disapproved of bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators ; so that in fifty or sixty years strict Sunday observance was adopted into the Westminster Catechism,... | |
| Literary curiosities - 1876 - Страниц: 386
...entertainments at their mansions. (It has been wittily observed that the Puritans suppressed the sport of bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it afforded pleasure to the people !) We find in the public records of the time of the Protectorate, that... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay - 1877 - Страниц: 738
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.*... | |
| Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - Страниц: 650
...the legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty pf men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. ludeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear".***... | |
| Richard Gosche, Franz Schnorr von Carolsfeld - 1877 - Страниц: 642
...the legislature to interfere for tlie purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of torruenting both spectators and bear".***... | |
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