 ... unchecked reproduction). From the second principle of Darwin we see that instead of denouncing or destroying the competitive system, we ought to regard it as a most useful means of indicating biological fitness or unfitness. Our duty is simply to...  The Medical Critic and Guide - Página 63editado por - 1917Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | 1861 - 788 páginas
...Macaulay's keen remark on the objection of the Puritans to bullbaiting is well known : they objected, not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectator. But it was a different principle from this which animated Komaine, and i'erridge, and Talbot.... | |
 | James Hogg, Florence Marryat - 1870 - 810 páginas
...Christmas was often celebrated by a bullbaiting, to which the Puritans objected, as Macaulay said, ' not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.' The Puritans endeavoured to put down Christmas and all ' superstitious ' feasts. They made a parliamentary... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1862 - 364 páginas
...The Puritans," to quote one of Lord Macaulay's most pungent antitheses, " objected to bull-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators ;" and several of them coupled a protest against the infliction of capital punishment for theft with... | |
 | The Scottish Congregational Magazine. New Series-Vol.XVI - 1866 - 788 páginas
...might suggest, as Macaulay says (whether truly or not) of the Puritans, that they opposed bull-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators, so one cause of the difference referred to might possibly be, that some people have a liking for whatever... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1866 - 416 páginas
...Macaulay, with characteristic antithesis, says : ' If the Puritans suppressed bull-baiting, it was not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.' The long unsuccessful warfare waged by the Popes against Spanish bull-fighting forms a very curious... | |
 | 1868 - 812 páginas
...suppressed bull and cock lighting, not as Macaulay antithetically puts it, speaking •of the former, ' because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.' At the same time, they cruelly punished witches, and believed themselves to be doing God a service... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 366 páginas
...Puritans were not cruel, and yet Macaulay says of them, " If the Puritans suppressed bull-baiting, it was not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." And then, again, with respect to the Slave Trade, how long it was before public opinion was • effectually... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 388 páginas
...Puritans were not cruel, and yet Macaulay says of them, " If the Puritans suppressed bull-baiting, it was not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." And then again with respect to the Slave Trade, how long it was before public opinion was effectually... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 372 páginas
...Puritans were not cruel, and yet Macaulay says of them, "If the Puritans suppressed bull-baiting, it was not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." And then, again, with • respect to the Slave Trade, how long it was before public opinion was effectually... | |
 | William Forsyth - 1871 - 352 páginas
...were not cruel, and yet JVlacaulay says of them, " If the Puritans suppressed bull-baiting, it was not because it gave pain to the bull, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." And then, again, with respect to the Slave Trade, how long it was before public opinion was effectually... | |
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