A Full Inquiry Into the Subject of Suicide: To which are Added (as Being Closely Connected with the Subject) Two Treatises on Duelling and Gaming ...J. F. and C. Rivington ... J. Robson and W. Clarke ... G. Nicol ... and J. and T. Egerton ... Fletcher, Prince and Cooke, Oxford; Merrills, Lunn, Cambridge; Simmons and Kirby, Canterbury; and Gillman, Rochester., 1790 - Dueling - 405 pages |
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... fort of felf - murder , concerning which a man has [ F ] " Because they never think of death , they die . " . -YOUNG'S Night Thoughts . previously previously argued with himself , and determined , that he A FULL INQUIRY INTO INTO THE.
... fort of felf - murder , concerning which a man has [ F ] " Because they never think of death , they die . " . -YOUNG'S Night Thoughts . previously previously argued with himself , and determined , that he A FULL INQUIRY INTO INTO THE.
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... determined , that he neither can nor ought to live under fuch or fuch circumftances ; being influenced in this ... determine its immediate execution : the former fhall be examined in this place . There is little room to doubt , but that ...
... determined , that he neither can nor ought to live under fuch or fuch circumftances ; being influenced in this ... determine its immediate execution : the former fhall be examined in this place . There is little room to doubt , but that ...
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... impaired and judgment weakened ; the value of our exiftence be leffened in our own estimation , and a weariness of life fucceed , with a fixed determination to get rid of it . It was not , however 4 get SUBJECT OF SUICIDE , 15.
... impaired and judgment weakened ; the value of our exiftence be leffened in our own estimation , and a weariness of life fucceed , with a fixed determination to get rid of it . It was not , however 4 get SUBJECT OF SUICIDE , 15.
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... determined according to a law of Draco ) to be caft out of Attica , and thrown into the fea . See PETITI Leges Atticæ , and the writers he quotes . ་ The following paffage in Æfchines's Oration against Ctefiphon confirms the ufage of ...
... determined according to a law of Draco ) to be caft out of Attica , and thrown into the fea . See PETITI Leges Atticæ , and the writers he quotes . ་ The following paffage in Æfchines's Oration against Ctefiphon confirms the ufage of ...
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... Determining that they need not live any longer than seems good to themselves , they think as little of fearing man as God , and therefore put no other restraint on themselves or their actions , than feems to them confiftent with their ...
... Determining that they need not live any longer than seems good to themselves , they think as little of fearing man as God , and therefore put no other restraint on themselves or their actions , than feems to them confiftent with their ...
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Page 106 - Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way...
Page 21 - And surely your blood of your lives will I require : at the hand of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man ; at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed : for in the image of God made he man.
Page 106 - His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way: Yet simple Nature to his hope has given, Behind the cloud-topt hill, an humbler heaven...
Page 54 - tis a confummation Devoutly to be wifh'd. To die to fleep To fleep perchance to dream ; ay, there's the rub—- For in that fleep of death what dreams may come, When we have Ihuffled off this mortal coil, Muft give us paufe. There's the refpect That makes calamity of fo long life. For who would bear the whips and fcorns of time, Th* oppreflbr's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The * 'pangs v of defpis'd love, the law's delay, The infolence of office, and the fpurns That patient merit of th...
Page 74 - And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
Page 54 - Ham. To be, or not to be : that is the queftion— — — Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to fuffer The flings and arrows of outragious fortune j Or to take arms againft a fea of troubles, * And by oppofing end them.
Page 73 - Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward. For ye have need of patience; that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
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Page 360 - Give me leave. Here lies the water; good : here stands the man ; good : If the man go to this water, and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes ; mark you that? but if the water come lo him, and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he, that is not guilty of his own death, shortens not his own life. 2 Clo. But is this law ? 1 Clo. Ay, marry is't; crowner's-quest law.1 2 Clo. Will you ha