...health. 9. An ash or a sycamore every now and then threw its shadow across the path. 10. The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 11. The governing principle of Walpole's conduct was neither love of peace nor love of war, but love...

...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...

...thought to do it only for the chance of attacking the others ; as Macaulay says the Puritans abhorred bearbaiting, "not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." juventutem invasere, came upon the youth. — rapere, etc., histor. infin. — consumere, waste (in...

...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...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear. Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct...

...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...double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear. Perhaps no single circumstance more strongly illustrates the temper of the precisians than their conduct...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* * How little compassion for the of the Kingdom, from Monday July bear had to do with the matter is 24th,...

...legislature to interfere for tlie purpose of protecting beasts against the wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the...generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of torruenting both spectators and bear".*** Dieser sich allenthalben offenbarende Fanatismus ist es,...