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Complete Old Books
- Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science Vol.1 (PDF 18mb) by Eugène Müntz, 1898. p.17 footnote: "It appears from Corsali's letter that Leonardo ate no meat, but lived entirely on
vegetables, thus forestalling our modern vegetarians by several centuries."
- The Art of Living Long (PDF 12mb) - the treatise by the celebrated Venetian centenarian, with essays, 1903 edition
- Discourses on the sober life (Discorsi della vita sobria) (PDF 8.3mb) Being the personal narrative of Luigi Cornaro (1467-1566), 1916 edition?
- Utopia (PDF 17mb) by Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) 1904 edition
- The Essays of Michael de Montaigne, Vol II (PDF 34mb) trans. Pierre Coste, this edition London 1811
- Poemata : Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by John Milton (plain text 146k) this edition c.1876. - Elegy VI, line 60: 'Let herbs to them a bloodless banquet give'
- Milton's Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (PDF 13mb) this edition 1854.
- The Works of Abraham Cowley Vol.III (PDF 6mb) by Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson, John Aikin, this edition 1806. p.173 The Garden
- Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets (plain text 255k) by John Evelyn (1620-1706) First pub. 1699, this edition New York, 1937. From the foreword: 'Evelyn ... is probably the first advocate in England of a meatless diet.'
- Tryon's Letters, Domestick and Foreign, to Several Persons of Quality, Occasionally Distributed in Subjects, Viz. Philosophical, Theological, and Moral. (PDF 19mb) by Thomas Tryon (1634-1703), pub.1700 (see eg Letter XIX 'Of Flesh Broths', p.87)
- An Essay of Health and Long Life (PDF 11mb) By George Cheyne, M.D. F.R.S., (1671-1743) pub.1724. " Benefit of a low Diet, living altogether on 'vegetable Food and pure Element.' "
- A Treatise on Health and Long Life ...: To which is Added to this Edition, (not in Any Former One) the Life of the Author (PDF 7 mb) By George Cheyne, 10th edition, London 1787
- Fables of Mr. John Gay (PDF 27mb) first appeared 1726, this edition London, 1773. John Gay (1685-1732) wrote many references to humane diet.
- The Fable of the Bees (PDF 18mb) by Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733), pub.1729
- The Seasons (PDF 13mb) by James Thomson, first published 1726-30, this edition London, 1824. Humanitarian poetry, particularly 'Spring'.
- Emanuel Swedenborg : a biography (PDF 14mb) by James Wilkinson, Boston, 1849. Swedenborg (1688-1772) p.238: He writes on the subject in his
Arcana as follows: " Considered apart, eating the flesh
of animals is somewhat profane...."
- Works Vol.26 (inc. The Princess of Babylon) (PDF 6mb) by Voltaire (1694-1778). This edition 769.
- The Philosophical Dictionary (PDF 12 mb) by Voltaire, a short edition from 1766. See Beasts p.33
- A Philosophical Dictionary Vol. VI (PDF 16mb) by Voltaire. This edition, London, 1824. See Viands p.315
- Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire (PDF 4mb) by Voltaire. This edition London, 1784
- An Essay on Man (PDF 4mb) by Alexander Pope (1688-1744), first pub. 1732-5, this edition London 1796. Humane commentary
- Works Vol.26 (inc. The Princess of Babylon) (PDF 6mb) by Voltaire. This edition 769.
- The Philosophical Dictionary (PDF 12 mb) by Voltaire, a short edition from 1766. See Beasts p.33
- A Philosophical Dictionary Vol VI (PDF 16mb) by Voltaire. See Viands p.315
- Memoirs of the Life of Voltaire (PDF 4mb) by Voltaire. This edition London, 1784
- Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations Vol.2 (PDF 18mb) by David Hartley (1705-1757), first pub. 1749. This edition 1801. Much concerned with animals as food eg: 'With respect to animal diet, let it be
considered, that taking away the lives of animals, in
order to convert them into food, does great violence
to the principles of benevolence and compasion.' p.222.
- John Wesley (1703-1791) (PDF 7mb) biography by Richard Green, pub. late 19th century. p.35: in
the hope of thereby promoting his own piety, he
began to use a vegetable diet.
- Rousseau's Emile; or, Treatise on education (PDF 11mb) this edition New York, c.1918
- John Howard (1726-1790) (PDF 15mb) Biography of the prison reformer by Edgar C. S. Gibson, London, 1901. p.180: "has been accustomed for years
to exist on vegetables and water, a little bread,
and a little tea."
- Letters from a citizen of the world to his friends in the East (PDF 17mb) by Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774), this edition 1840. 'I have seen the very men who thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devour the flesh of six different animals tossed up in a fricasee.' p.32.
- Paley's Moral and Political Philosophy (PDF 11mb) by William Paley (1743-1805) 1835 edition. p.65: questions the right to the flesh of animals
- Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation (PDF 7mb) By John Hildrop, London, 1742
- A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals (PDF 9mb) By Humphrey Primatt, London 1776
- An Introduction To The Principles Of Morals And Legislation (PDF 22mb) by Jeremy Bentham, first pub.1780. This edition 1907. p.311: The question is not, Can they reason? nor, Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?
- Disquisitions on Several Subjects (PDF 2mb) by Soame Jenyns (1704-1787), first pub. London 1782; this edition 1822. p.19: Disquisition II - On Cruely to Inferior Animals
- The Task (PDF 7mb) by William Cowper, first pub.1782; this edition London, 1817. Humanitarian poetry
- Schiller's "The song of the bell"; and other poems (PDF 3mb) Trans. Thomas C. Zimmerman, pub. Pennsylvania, 1896 - see Der Alpenjäger (The Hunter of the Alps) in both German and English,
- The Cry of Nature (html page) by John Oswald - full text from 1791.
- Paul and Virginia (PDF 2mb) By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, this edition, London 1828
- Studies of Nature Vol. IV (PDF 29mb) By Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, this edition London, 1809
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