...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....

...legislature to 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...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...

...legislature to 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...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...

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

...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...

...wanton cruelty of men. The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not becanse it gave pain to the bear, but becanse it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, he generally...pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.' The Council of the People's Charter Union met on Friday and fixed Tuesday, January 16, for the Quarterly...

...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 by looking...

...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...

...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,...because it gave pleasure to the spectators. Indeed, lie generally contrived to enjoy the double pleasure of tormenting both spectators and bear.* * How...

...people. Such a one, it may be, as Macaulay had in his mind when he wrote that " the Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave 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 possession of...