"Self-slaughter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" ...
— The Contemporary Review, January 1883 - Vol 43, No. 1 • Various
... later, in 1795, the "great buck" of his time took to a bankrupt's grave in New York, forgetting, so the story goes, the eternal canon fixed against self-slaughter. ...
— The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees • Mary Caroline Crawford |
