Tag Archives: Gentlemen’s Magazine
Dobbs Sentences #62: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 4 of 8 Sentence 2 of 3 The next sentence is a single claim, and one we’ve already confirmed: “Quite to the contrary, in the 1732 case mentioned above, the judge said of the charge of abortion (with no mention of quickening) that he had ‘never met with a case so barbarous and unnatural.’28” […]
Dobbs Sentences #60: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 3 of 8 Sentence 3 of 3 This paragraph closes with a sentence that contains another simple claim: “For that crime and another ‘misdemeanor,’ Beare was sentenced to two days in the pillory and three years’ imprisonment.27” That other “misdemeanor” of which Mrs. Beare was convicted was that she advised a man to kill […]
Dobbs Sentences #59: Part II B 2 a
Paragraph 3 of 8 Sentence 2 of 3 Finally! The next sentence is a single, simple claim that is easily investigated. It reads: “In 1732, for example, Eleanor Beare was convicted of ‘destroying the Foetus in the Womb’ of another woman and ‘thereby causing her to miscarry.’”26 The Court has made our investigation easy in […]
Cynical Jason 