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Animal Rights Quotes » Richard Watson

References to "Rights" of Animals in Historical Literature


Who shall rise up in his place there... to plead the rights of animals to protection.…He who applies the himself most diligently to infuse moral health into society is the highest patriot; and that, even in this age and country, the man who engages in public affairs avowedly on Christian principles must stand prepared to endure reproach for their sake.

Animal Rights History Timeline: Animal Rights Quotes—"Rights"
of Animals References in Historical Literature Against Cruelty to Animals



Source Documents [1826] Richard Watson, "A Sermon on the Death of Joseph Butterworth, Esq., late M. P. for Dover: Preached at Great Queen-Street Chapel, on Sunday, July 9th, 1826," extracted in The Life and Writings of Rich. Watson, by Thomas Jackson (London, 1834).




[1660-1785] Enlightenment
References to "Rights" of Animals
[1684] Thomas Tyron
[1755] Jean-Jacques Rousseau
[1770-5] Johann David Michaels
[1775] Thomas Percival
[1775] Humphrey Primatt

[1785-1837] Romantic Age
References to "Rights" of Animals
[1786] European Magazine
[1787] Robert Burns
[1787] Country Village Rector
[1789] Jeremy Bentham
[1792] Herman Daggett
[1792] Thomas Taylor
[1796] Egham, Sporting Magazine
[1796] John Lawrence
[1798] William Channing
[1798] Thomas Young
[1798] William Channing
[1801] Rev. Legh Richmond
[1801] Helen Maria Williams
[1809] Belfast Monthly Magazine
[1809] Lord Erskine
[1810] Samuel Jackson Pratt
[1810] Monthly Repository
[1810-1] Bullocks Petition
[1824] Church-England Clergyman
[1825] Elisha Bates
[1826] Richard Watson
[1835] William Hamilton Drummond

[1837-1901] Victorian Age
References to "Rights" of Animals
[1838] William Drummond
[1839] Annie Field Elsdale
[1839] Christian Pioneer
[1843] Nathaniel P. Rogers
[1845] Nathaniel P. Rogers
[1848] Lord John Campbell
[1857] Animals' Declaration
[1857] Francis Newman
[1867] William Henry Peck
[1870] James Drummond
[1871] Rev. T. B Thater
[1872] Paul Chadborne
[1873] Francis Newman
[1879] Edward Nicholson
[1892] Henry Salt
[1894] Susan Wixon
[1896] Wilfred Lescher

[1901-1945] Early-Mid 20thc
References to "Rights" of Animals
[1903] Elijah D. Buckner
[1903] Richard Stratton

Rev. Richard Watson


Animal Rights History Timeline: Romantic Age[1785-1837]

Romanticism; Romantic Poets


[—Activists-Advocates-Authors
[—Modern Legislative Beginnings]
[—Romantic Periodicals-Articles]


[Abstinence from Animal Food]
[Animal Rights Quotes]
[Animal Rights Law]
[Anti-Vivisection Quotes]
[Humane Education, Teaching Children Kindness to Animals]
[Hunting, Blood-Sports Cruelty]
[Poetry-Plays; Humane Poets]
[Religion-Religious Quotes
Sermons Against Animal Cruelty]
[Souls, Immortality, Future Life]
[Humanity-Justice-Kindness]
[Intelligence-Reason-Emotion]
[Make Compassion the Fashion;
Beauty-Feathers-Fur-Leather]
[Cruelty-Slavery of Animals]
[Strait from the Horse's Mouth:
Words from Animals Themselves]
[Vegetarians-Vegans; Cruelty of Slaughter, Abstinence-Animals]


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[1901-1945] 20thc-Modernism


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