Historical Illustrations of the Origin and Progress of the Passions, and Their Influence on the Conduct of Mankind: With Some Subordinate Sketches of Human Nature and Human Life, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1825 - Conduct of life |
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... illustrious , sufficient to shake our firm- est opinions , were they grounded on the opinions of others . The lawfulness of suicide , under certain circum- stances , was admitted and reduced within the axioms of some of the ...
... illustrious , sufficient to shake our firm- est opinions , were they grounded on the opinions of others . The lawfulness of suicide , under certain circum- stances , was admitted and reduced within the axioms of some of the ...
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... illustrious person having attended her , employed all his eloquent dissuasion against it . But she , who had passed her ninetieth year , observed , that hitherto she had enjoyed prosperity , and while it remained she was anxious to ...
... illustrious person having attended her , employed all his eloquent dissuasion against it . But she , who had passed her ninetieth year , observed , that hitherto she had enjoyed prosperity , and while it remained she was anxious to ...
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... Illustrious state delinquents in the empire of China are allowed , as a token of special favour and indulgence , to commit suicide after con- viction and sentence . On a late accession , the sove- reign finding that the infirmities of ...
... Illustrious state delinquents in the empire of China are allowed , as a token of special favour and indulgence , to commit suicide after con- viction and sentence . On a late accession , the sove- reign finding that the infirmities of ...
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... , tom . i . p . 268. places the suicide " of the wife and two daughters of Adanctus , " in the eleventh year of the reign of Dioclesian . with virtues deemed illustrious , and the embellish- ment of 92 IS SUICIDE LAWFUL ?
... , tom . i . p . 268. places the suicide " of the wife and two daughters of Adanctus , " in the eleventh year of the reign of Dioclesian . with virtues deemed illustrious , and the embellish- ment of 92 IS SUICIDE LAWFUL ?
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... illustrious , and the embellish- ment of human nature : secondly , because that sounder philosophy , teaching self - acquittal of blame which is not our own act , perhaps is in greater ob- servance . Nevertheless , men apparently of ...
... illustrious , and the embellish- ment of human nature : secondly , because that sounder philosophy , teaching self - acquittal of blame which is not our own act , perhaps is in greater ob- servance . Nevertheless , men apparently of ...
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