Indexed in the public record
“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”
Provenance
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ddde496f6cf005f6824bd54a95068afaa74814902cd642560f16ba125eb81eae
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Related in the record
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite, For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl…”
Isaac Watts
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“The pleasing punishment that women bear.”
William Shakespeare
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”
Edward Young
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities…”
Winston Churchill
Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0
“Bears when first born are shapeless masses of white flesh a little larger than mice, their claws alone…”
Pliny the Elder
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
“Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and this must be…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
Said something yourself? Put it on the record — $5.
A timestamped public registration for a line of your own, filed before it travels without your name. The ledger keeps the date.
This is an indexed reference citation, not a legal registry entry and not a claim of ownership.