In 548 the ruler of Ts'i was assassinated by a eunuch who would not even grant his master permission to commit suicide decently in the ancestral hall; (see p.
In the year 548 the wretched ruler of Ts'i, victim of a palace intrigue, begged the eunuch who was charged with the task of assassinating him at least "to grant me permission to commit suicide in my ancestral hall.
A law that provides for the punishment of those who attempt to commit suicide is idiotic.
Back of every suicide and every attempt to commit suicide is the natural and efficient cause.
I denounced the law of New York that makes an attempt to commit suicide a crime.
As already mentioned, according to the native newspapers, there are parts of China in which young girls band themselves into a secret league to commit suicide within a certain time after they have been betrothed or married.
The principal concern of every one interested is the "face" of the family involved, and to save this imaginary self-respect it may be necessary for some one to commit suicide, which is done with the smallest provocation at all times.
Even thus it is not always easy to raise the sum required, and in cases of this sort, the unfortunate debtor may even be driven to commit suicide.
Did they not say that she had driven a foolish young man, a gambler, to commit suicide; and that she had watched, unmoved, the tortures of his agony?
And one day, when he was on a slab of rock, he beheld near him a certain man about to commit suicide by hanging himself.
Though plied by him with these and similar arguments, he would not abandon his fixed determination to commit suicide, for wealth is dearer to the miser than life itself.
Then all the citizens, suspecting that he was to be put to death, through regard for his virtues assembled and determined to commit suicide.
My dear Paradine, I don't want tocommit suicide by sheer boredom.
Has it become so intolerable that you desire to commit suicide, under the specious plea of philanthropic martyrdom?
Mrs. Singleton took both hands, and held them firmly: "Do you believe it right to commit suicide?
A little girl who attempted to commit suicide by throwing herself into a canal explained after she had been rescued that she did it to upset her mother.
It was not until some months afterwards that we knew what had induced him to commit suicide.
The man was seen by passers-by and people who were loitering about, but no idea was entertained that he was going to commit suicide.
She was rescued and charged with attempting to commit suicide.
Prince Karu was guilty of this offence with his sister, Oiratsume, and so severely did the nation judge him that he was driven into exile and finally obliged to commit suicide.
Finally he took advantage of the Empress' confinement to pay the long-deferred visit, but, on learning of the event, the outraged wife set fire to the parturition house and attempted to commit suicide.
If the invert is rich or of high position he has only to yield to the extortion, emigrate or commit suicide.
It is very rare for such cases to come to the knowledge of the public, for these patients prefer to suffer in silence or to commit suicide; but they are none the less instructive and characteristic.
One day he came to me and said, disconsolately, that he was going to commit suicide--he was tired of life, not being able to express his thoughts in poetic form.
I will now teach, offering my way of life to whomsoever desires to commit suicide by the scheme which has enabled me to beat the doctor and the hangman for seventy years.
As he had no other departments out of which to average his profits, ruin inevitably followed, and he attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself under an omnibus; his injuries were not serious, however, and he ultimately recovered.
So unhappy did he become, that he attempted to commit suicide by shooting himself; the wound was, however, not a serious one, and he recovered.
She ultimately gained such complete influence over him, and made him so unhappy, that he attempted to commit suicide.
He seems to have mixed himself up in some treasonable enterprise, and was driven to commit suicide.
During the previous night the Emperor, who had refused to flee, slew the eldest Princess, commanded the Empress to commit suicide, and sent his three sons into hiding.
The crisis leaves him, not, like Werther, prepared to commit suicide, but with a firm resolve and a higher opinion of himself.
In the depth of his despondency he attempted to commit suicide.
Charlotte, driven to despair by her rival's furious jealousy, made an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide.
I resolved to commit suicide, but when just in the act of taking my life the Spirit of God restrained me.
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