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Suicide - Early works to 1800
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Some thoughts concerning suicide, or self-killing: with general directions for the more easie dispatch of that affair. Written for the benefit of all malecontents in Great-Britain. By W. Withers of Withers-Hall, in Sussex.
Withers, W., active 1711.Date: Printed in the Year, M.DCC.XI. [1711]- Books
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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. In two volumes. By Charles Moore, M. A. Rector of Cuxton and Vicar of Boughton-Blean, Kent; and Formerly Fellow of Trinity-College, Cambridge. ...
Moore, Charles, 1743-1811.Date: [1790]- Books
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The mischief of persecution exemplified, by a true narrative of the life and deplorable end of Mr. John Child, who miserably destroy'd himself Octob. 13, 1684 : giving an account of his despair, and divers conferences had with him by several of his friends : together with his answer and papers written by his own hand : also a discourse of the nature and office of conscience, with a postscript shewing the reason of its publication at this time / attested by us, Tho. Plant, Benj. Dennis.
Plant, Thomas, active 17th centuryDate: 1688- Books
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Dreadful occurrence! Murder and suicide at Wigton. A most dreadful and distressing occurrence took place ... on Sunday the 20th of April. - Ann Graham, ... murdered two of her children by strangulation, ...
Date: [1800?]- Books
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A discourse of self-murder. In which the heinousness of the sin is expos'd. By John Cockburn, D. D. Vicar of Northall, Middlesex.
Cockburn, John, 1652-1729.Date: 1716