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Patrick Brydone

A Tour through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters

Letter XX, June 16

[1773] Patrick Brydone, A Tour through Sicily and Malta, in a Series of Letters to William Beckford (1773; Boston, 1809; Google Books: Online Library of Free eBooks).

By particular kind of management they make the livers of their fowls grow to a large size, and at the same time acquire a high and rich flavour. It is indeed a most incomparable dish; but the means of procuring it is so cruel, that I will not even trust it with you. Perhaps, without any bad intentions, you might mention it to some of your friends, they to other, till at last it might come into the hands of those that would be glad to try the experiments; and the whole race of poultry might ever have reason to curse me: let it suffice to say, that it occasions a painful and lingering death to the poor animal that, I know, is enough to make you wish never to taste of it, whatever the effect it may have upon others. (204)

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"A dissertation on humanity to animals in the style of Lord Erskine"—Rene Martin Pillet, Views of England, "Humanity to Animals," (1815; Boston, 1818).