Animal Rights History

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Critical Review

1776-Feb: review-Dr. Primatt, Dissertation, Duty of Mercy and Sin of Cruelty to Brute Animals
1782-Jan: review-Todd Toogood, Country Clergyman's Shrovetide Gift to his Parishioners
1793-Jun: review-Rev. Luke Booker, Sermons
1800-Jul: review-M. Pelham, Rational Brutes-Talking Animals
1800-Aug: review-Letter of Sir Richard Hill to William Windham on the Bull-Baiting Bill
1802-Jun: review-Rev. Edward Barry, Bull Baiting, A Sermon on Barbarity to God's Dumb Creation
1806-Mar: review of-Rev. Charles Toogood, The Seventh Day, A Day of Rest for the Labouring Cattle…
1810-Apr: review of Rev. Thomas Moore, Sin and Folly of Cruelty to Brute Animals; a Sermon
1816-Jul: review-Rev. James Plumptre, Three Discourses on the Ease of the Animal Creation, and the Duties of Man to Them

Critical Review


1816-Jul | review of "Three Discourses on the Ease of the Animal Creation, and the Duties of Man to Them, By the Rev. James Plumptre (London, 1816)," Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature 4 (1816-Jul): 99; Digitized by Google, Online at Google Books.

Animal Creation, and the Duties of Man to Them

Rev. James Plumptre

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ART. XXXIX.—Three Discourses on the Ease of the Animal Creation, and the Duties of Man to them. By the Rev. James Plumptre, B. D. London, Darton and Co. 12mo. 1816. Pp. 78.

THESE Discourses comprehend the substance of a sermon on "The Duties of Man to the Brute Creation," preached before the University of Cambridge, on Sunday, May 8, 1796. It was delivered on the occasion of one of the visits of the present Chancellor, the Duke of Gloucester. It is justly observed, that humanity to the inferior animals, since the period mentioned, has been recommended from high authority; it has been the subject of discussion in Parliament; annual sermons at Bath and at Southampton have been devoted to it, and a society has been established at Liverpool for the protection of these helpless creatures. Several valuable works have also been published in their defence, and among these are Mr. Young's Essay on Humanity to Animals, and Mr. Pratt's poem of the Lower World.


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[1770-1832]Rev. James Plumptre
1816: Three Discourses on the Case of the Animal Creation, and the Duties of Man to Them
First Discourse-Animal Creation
Second Discourse-Animal Creation
Third Discourse-Animal Creation
1816: The Experienced Butcher