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" The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. "
Evangelicals in the Church of England 1734-1984 - Page 103
by Kenneth Hylson-Smith - 1992 - 424 pages
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The Living Age, Volume 199

1893 - 840 pages
...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...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

Christianity - 1849 - 606 pages
...was the abomination which most strongly stirred the wrath of the austere sectaries." " The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators! " The pleasure taken by a brutal mob of spectators, in making themselves still more brutish...
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The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1849 - 470 pages
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not 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...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 46

Unitarianism - 1849 - 542 pages
...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, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 46

Liberalism (Religion) - 1849 - 546 pages
...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, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators...
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Macphail's Edinburgh ecclesiastical journal and literary review, Volumes 7-8

1849 - 858 pages
...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...
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The Christian Examiner and Religious Miscellany, Volume 46

Liberalism (Religion) - 1849 - 556 pages
...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 it. gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators...
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Records of the Company of the Massachusetts Bay, to the Embarkation of ...

Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1850 - 264 pages
...licentious sports of the common people. Such a one, it may be, as Macaulay had in his mind when he wrote that " the Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because...pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." J He is styled " Sir Henry Rosewell, of Ford Abbey, in the county of Devon ; " and the...
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A Lecture on the Life and Character of Oliver Cromwell: Delivered Before the ...

Sherman B. Canfield - 1850 - 212 pages
...prevent innocent enjoyment.* » Yet Macaulay (in his History of England) declares that: "The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators;" and that "he generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators...
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The History of England, from the Accession of James II.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1850 - 552 pages
...legislature to interfere for the purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bearbaiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, lie generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators...
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