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Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
Vegetarianism
Britannica 11thVEGETARIANISM, a comparatively modern word, which came into use about the year 1847, as applied to the practice of living upon foods from which fish, flesh and fowl are excluded. There have from time to time been various sects or schools of thought that have a ...
Vol. 27, pp. 967-967
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Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Britannica 11th... established routine he tranquilly tested and as tranquilly abandoned. He tried vegetarianism for a while, but gave it up when he found that it did him no particular good. An attempt to illustrate household equality by having the servants sit at table with the ...
Vol. 9, pp. 332-335
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