"Disgusted with continual scenes of slaughter and desolation, pierced by the incessant shrieks of suffering innocence,…"

"At all events, the pleasing persuasion that his work may have contributed to mitigate the ferocities of prejudice, an…"

"And, indeed, has not nature given, to almost every creature, the same spontaneous signs of the various affections? Ad…"

"Ye sons of modern science, who court not wisdom in her walks of silent meditation in the grove, who behold her not in…"

"Fatigued with answering the enquiries, and replying to the objections of his friends, with respect to the singularity…"

"The butcher's knife hath laid low the delight of a fond dam, & the darling of Nature is now stretched in gore upon th…"

"The Author is very far from entertaining a presumption that his slender labours (crude and imperfect as they are now …"

"But here the sons of science sport with the sentiments of mercy; and why, with a malicious grin, demands the modern s…"

"But far other is the fate of animals: for, alas! when they are plucked from the tree of Life, suddenly the withered b…"

"May the benevolent system spread to every corner of the globe; may we learn to recognize and to respect in other anim…"