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- 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, WilliamDate: 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: 1778- E-books
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Three dissertations on life and death . Viz. I. A Survey of the Brevity and Vanity of Human Life; with the Consolation administered by the Christian System against both. II. Considerations on St. Paul's Wish, to depart and be with Christ. With an Appendix on the Intermediate State. And III. A Commentary on Rev. xiv. 13. in which the Nature of Death is farther considered. By William Jones, Rector of Pluckley in Kent.
Jones, William 1726-1800.Date: 1771