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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., fl. 1711. | Date: Printed in the Year, M.DCC.XI. [1711]
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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?]
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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
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    Cato condemn'd or, the case and history of self-murder, argu'd and display'd at large, on the principles of reason, justice, law, religion, fortitude, love of ourselves and our country, ... By J. Henley, ..

    Henley, John, 1692-1756. | Date: 1730
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    Short exposulations and thoughts on suicide

    G. S. | Date: [1790?]
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