Europe: The 18th Century
A collection of articles:
Note - these are not just lists of 'famous vegetarians' - they are people with a view on the subject, and the articles explain whether they put those veiws into practice.
Note - these are not just lists of 'famous vegetarians' - they are people with a view on the subject, and the articles explain whether they put those veiws into practice.
- Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
- Español Sir Isaac Newton
- Français Sir Isaac Newton
- Philippe Hecquet M.D. (1661-1737)
- George Granville (Lord Lansdowne) (1667-1735)
- Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733)
- George Cheyne (1671-1743)
- John Gay (1685-1732)
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772)
- Voltaire (1696-1778)
- Philip Dormer, Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773)
- Antonio Cocchi (1695-1758)
- James Thomson (1700-1748)
- John Wesley (1703-1791)
- Soame Jenyns (1704-1787)
- David Hartley (1705-1757)
- George Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788)
- Karl von Linné (1707-1778)
- Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 - 1778)
- John Hawkesworth (1715-1773)
- Adam Smith 1723-1790
- John Howard (1726-1790)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
- John Oswald (1730-1793)
- William Cowper (1731-1800)
- Jean Baptiste Pressavin (b.1734 - )
- Edward Gibbon (1737-1794)
- Bernardin St. Pierre (1737-1814)
- William Paley (1743-1805)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
- Español - Jeremy Bentham
- Italiano - Jeremy Bentham
- George Nicholson (1760-1825)
- Food in England Since 1066 -- A Vegetarian Evolution?
- The Origins of Some Words
More Old Books
- Free Thoughts Upon the Brute-creation (link to archive.org) By John Hildrop, London, 1742
- A Dissertation on the Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals (link to archive.org) By Humphrey Primatt, London 1776
- Schiller's "The song of the bell"; and other poems (link to archive.org) Trans. Thomas C. Zimmerman, pub. Pennsylvania, 1896 - see Der Alpenjäger (The Hunter of the Alps) in both German and English,
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