| 1885 - Страниц: 226
...esteemed heathenish and unchristian, the sport of it, not the inhumanity, being the offence. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator.— MACAULAY'S " History of England," i., chap. 2. (f.) Walls grown thin permit the mind... | |
| 1884 - Страниц: 652
...pleasure, to non-Christians. As Macaulay says of the Puritans, they objected to bear-baiting, not [localise it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. One of the most surprising things in the discussion to which recent eases have given rise is, that... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1886 - Страниц: 428
...himself from the charge of being a heretic only by arguments which made him out to be a murderer." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. " Besides these elements of epigram and antithesis, there is a vast wealth of illustration, brought... | |
| Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - Страниц: 304
...May games and bearbaitings. (Macaulay, it will be remembered, said that the Puritans disapproved of bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.) The humor of Hudibras is not of the finest. The knight and squire are discomfited in broadly comic... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - Страниц: 414
...himself from the charge of being a heretic only by arguments which made him out to be a murderer." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave...pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the s-pectutors." Besides these elements of epigram and antithesis, there is a vast wealth of illustration,... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - Страниц: 414
...must not be strained after. Macaulay employs this device with great effect. He has : " The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Swift was very fond of it. Thus he says : " The two maxims of a great man at court are, always to keep... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - Страниц: 266
...must not be strained after. Macaulay employs this device with great effect. He has : " The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Swift was very fond of it. Thus he says : " The two maxims of a great man at court are, always to keep... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - Страниц: 224
...must not be strained after. Macaulay employs this device with great effect. He has : " The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Swift was very fond of it. Thus he says : " The two maxims of a great man at court are, always to keep... | |
| Appleton Morgan - 1887 - Страниц: 380
...and damned; the bear-pits were preached against; bear-baiting being denounced, not, as Macaulay said, because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator; the May-poles were allowed to rot, and there was no more dancing around them on the village... | |
| John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - 1887 - Страниц: 494
...by arguments which made him out to be a murderer." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because H gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Besides these elements of epigram and antithesis, there is a vast wealth of illustration, brought from... | |
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