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In this tower are also kept the inquisitions post mortem, from the first year of King Henry III., to the third year of Richard III. The inquisitions ad quod damnum, from the first of Edward II. to the end of Henry V. Writs of summons, and returns to Parliament, from the reign of Edward I. to the 17th of Edward IV. Popes' bulls, and original letters from foreign princes.
Tusc. 1, 74; Rep. 6, 15. The Stoics held the same view about suicide, which they authorized in extreme cases, but much less freely than is commonly supposed; cf. Sen. Ep. 117, 22 nihil mihi videtur turpius quam optare mortem. See Zeller, Stoics, Epicureans, and Sceptics, Ch. 12, C ; cf. also Lecky, Hist. of European Morals, I. p. 228 et seq.
No one can say that he is resolute for death who fears to deal with it and cannot undergo it with his eyes open: they whom we see in criminal punishments run to their death and hasten and press their execution, do it not out of resolution, but because they will not give them selves leisure to consider it; it does not trouble them to be dead, but to die: "Emodi nolo, sed me esse mortem nihil astigmia:"
I would have been more pleased that that but unfortunately it's only a swoon. Non timeo mortem in catre sed super espaldonem Bagumbayanis. Get some water!" "Don't die!" sobbed the wife. "Don't die, for they'll come and arrest you! Ay, if you die and the soldiers come, ay, ay!" The learned cousin rubbed the victim's face with water until he recovered consciousness. "Come, don't cry.
All chroniclers who name the incident record that his death took place by no official sentence, but at the hands of the mob; and this is confirmed by his Inquisition, which states the day of death, not that of forfeiture contrary to the custom with respect to any person judicially condemned. In fact, Le Despenser never was attainted. Post Mortem 1 H. IV, i. 2, Tho.
On the 14th of April, 1711, Louis XIV. had lost by small-pox his son, the grand dauphin, a mediocre and submissive creature, ever the most humble subject of the king, at just fifty years of age. Dismay seized upon all France; poison was spoken of; the Duke of Orleans was accused; it was necessary to have a post mortem examination; only the hand of God had left its traces.
In half an hour there was a board meeting; later, he was to hold a post mortem on a railroad; at every moment questions were being asked by telegraph, by cable, questions that involved the credit of individuals, of firms, of even the country. And the one man who could answer them was risking untold sums only that he might say a good word for an idle apprentice.
They are however few in number and he did not think there was enough of them to publish in a volume. They were finally published post mortem in what was, if the truth be told, a rather unfortunate manner.
To the great surprise of Earle and Dick, no attempt was made to hold a post mortem, with the object of ascertaining the actual cause of death; but a little judicious inquiry soon elicited the fact that such investigations were unknown in Ulua, the skill and knowledge of the physicians not having advanced so far.
I have not reputation in view, for that is assured to all time, the one thing I regard as the most essential is life, of which eight days are worth more than centuries of post mortem glory. If any one had formerly proposed to you to live as you are now living, you would have hanged yourself!
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