John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
6159 Thomas Babington
| NUMBER: | 6159 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay (1800–1859) |
| QUOTATION: | The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | History of England. Vol. i. Chap. iii. |
| Note 1. Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.—Hume: History of England, vol. i. chap. lxii. [back] |