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Thomas Day

1748-1789


1783-9 | Thomas Day, The History of Sandford and Merton; A Work Intended for the Use of Children [1st Edition: London, 1783-9] (London, 1803) Online at Google Books.

The History of Sandford and Merton

If little Harry saw a poor wretch who wanted victuals, while he was eating dinner, he was sure to give him half, and sometimes the whole: nay, so very good natured was he to every thing, that he would never go into the fields to take the eggs of poor birds, or their young ones, nor practise any other kind of sport which gave pain to poor animals, who are as capable of feeling as we ourselves, though they have no words to express their sufferings. …he used to say that they had a right to live as well as we, and that it was cruel and unjust to kill creatures only because we did not like them.


1788 | Thomas Day, The History of Little Jack; [1st Edition: London, 1788] (Paris, 1822); Online at Google Books.

The History of Little Jack

In respect to the animals entrusted to his care, he not only refrained from using them ill, but was never tired with doing them good offices.


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[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility Age of [Samuel] Johnson
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Against Cruelty to Animals
[1737-1803] Rev. Richard Amner
[1742-1825] Anna Barbauld
[1764-1850] Dr. Samuel Bardsley
[1723-1780] William Blackstone
[Sensibility] Christopher Brown
[1743-1818] Patrick Brydone
[1714-1774] James Burgh
[1761] Clemency to Brutes
[1731-1800] William Cowper
[1748-1789] Thomas Day
[1705-1757] David Hartley
[1715-1773] John Hawkesworth
[1714-1758] James Hervey
[1697-1764] William Hogarth
[1704-1787] Soame Jenyns
[1677-1743] Louis Lemery
[1704-1789] Samuel Pegge
[1740-1804] Thomas Percival
[1749-1814] Samuel Pratt
[1736-1779] Humphrey Primatt
[1712-1778] Rousseau
[1684-1778] Voltaire
[1703-1791] Rev. John Wesley


[1785-1798] Romantic Age
Burns-Blake-Cowper

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Against Cruelty to Animals
[1744-1817] Ralph Beilby
[1748-1832] Jeremey Bentham
[1753-1828] Thomas Bewick
[1755–1814] John Bidlake
[1762-1835] Luke Booker
[1757-1827] William Blake
[1759-1796] Robert Burns
[1772-1834] Samuel Coleridge
[1787] Country Village Rector
[1731-1800] William Cowper
[1766-1832] Herman Daggett
[1724-1804] William Gilpin
[1767-1835] W. von Humboldt
[1753-1839] John Lawrence
[ d. 1793] John Oswald
[1738-1819] Peter Pindar
[1749-1814] Samuel Jackson Pratt
[1764-1823] Anne Radcliffe
[1745-1813] Benjamin Rush
[1758-1835] Thomas Taylor
[Romantic] William Trinder
[1770-1832] Priscilla Wakefield
[1738-1819] John Wolcot
[1759-1797] Mary Wollstonecraft



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Antiquity-Middle Ages
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[BCE-3rdc.] Mythical-Divine Origin; Antiquity—Classical Literature
[3rdc.-1485] Early Church Fathers, Old-Middle English Period

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[1485-1660] English Renaissance

Enlightenment
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[1660-1689] Restoration
[1689-1745] Augustan Age-Pope
[1745-1785] Age of Sensibility

Romantic Age
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Modern Legislative Beginnings
[1785-1798] Burns-Cowper
[1798-1806] Wordsworth
[1806-1837] Byron, Martin's Act

Victorian Age
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Anti-Cruelty, Anti-Vivisection Laws
[1837-1876] Early Victorian Age
[1876-1901] Late Victorian Age

Early 20th Century
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Continuing Animal Protection Law
[1901-1914] Edwardian Age
[1914-1945] Modern Period