Death - Early works to 1800
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A phliosophical [sic] dissertation upon death Composed for the consolation of the unhappy. By a friend to truth.
Radicati, Alberto, conte di Passerano, 1698-1737.Date: 1732
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Discorsi morali dell'eccellente S. Fabio Glissenti contra il dispiacer del morire, detto athanatophilia : diuisi in cinque dialoghi, occorsi in cinque giornate : ne'quali si discorre quanto ragioneuolmente si dourebbe desiderar la Morte, e come naturalmente la si uada fuggendo : con trenta vaghi, & vtili ragionamenti, come tante piaceuoli nouelle interposti : cauati da gli abusi del presente viuer mondano : et vn molto curioso trattato della pietra de' filosofi : adornati di bellissime figure, a' loro luoghi appropriate.
Fabio GlissentiDate: M.D.XCVI [1596]- E-books
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Dying behaviour, &c. of Joseph Samuel Abbott , for forging a power of attorney, to sell 450l. stock belonging to a benefit society; John Hall, Peter Chapman and Joseph Jones, for burglary. Who were executed this morning, opposite the debtor's door, Newgate.
Date: [1800?]- E-books
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News from the dead, or a faithful and genuine narrative of an extraordinary combat between life and death, exemplified in the case of William Duell, One of the Malefactors who was executed at Tyburn on Monday the 24th of this instant November, for a Rape, Robbery and Murder, and who soon after return'd to life at Barber-Surgeon's-Hall, where he had been brought too from the Place of Execution, in Order to be Anatomiz'd. With a true Account Of all the Particulars that happen'd to him, and the many surprizing Things he saw during the Interval of Time that passed between his being turned off at the Gallows, and his Recovery to Life. The whole taken from his own mouth in Newgate, where he now lies
Duell, William.Date: [1740]- E-books
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A letter of solemn counsel, from a minister of the Gospel, to a person in a declining state of health
De Courcy, Richard, 1743-1803.Date: M,DCC,LXXVIII. [1778]