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    Ch Jas Fox on Marriage Law in Parliament
   In that generous season, which this marriage act labors [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] and intends to blast, a young man, a farmer, or an artisan, becomes
enamored of a female, possessing, like himself,
all the honest and warm affection of the heart.  They have youth, they have virtue, they have tenderness.  They have love - but they have no fortune.  Prudence, with her cold train of associates, points out a variety of obstacles to their union, but passion surmounts them all, and the couple are wedded.  What are the consequences? happy to themselves
& favorable to the country.  Their love is the sweetness of [[?]] [[to Life?]].  Their prospect of a rising family becomes an incentive to industry.  Their natural cares and their toils are softened by the ecstasy of affording [[image over 3 lines of a head in profile]] protection and nourishment to their children.  The husband feels the enticement in so powerful a degree that he sees and knows the benefit of his application.  Every hour that he works brings new accomodations to his young family.  By laboring this day, he supplies one want, by laboring another he imparts one convenience or one comfort; and thus from day to day, and week to week, he is moved to activity by the most endearing of all human natures.  The wife again instigated by the same desires makes his house comfortable, and his hours of repose happy.  She employs what he earns with economy, and while he is providing food & raiment for his chn. she is busied in the maternal cultivation of their minds, or the laudable exertion of their young hands in useful labors.  Thus while they secure to themselves the most sober & 

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tranquil liberty, they become by their marriage, amiable, active, and virtuous members of society.
     View the same couple in another light.
         Fox Jan 1794 on Washington and his neutral firmness tween Eng & France.

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the girls & Luks replies "I'm still there with the vigor  Van B then repeats a story of Jim Clarke in the genre in which the girl in question replies that the episode was "a hunt".  Van B takes pain to bid me good by & shake hands as he goes, coming back for the purpose  Then in comes a tall thin dark man like a long edition of Henry White.  Luks introduces him  Arthur B Davies.  I speak of my new paper & Davies says "Thats the kind of new paper & pulls out a roll of new $10 bills.  Luks goes into his pockets & brings up a few coppers for contrast. "That's the kind of paper" he says.  Davies quite enthusiastic over my paper & when I mention Maillet he says 

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Page 42 (prior) is continued on the right-hand side after a long, separate note (after the X X X) Here is a link to Charles James Fox and the Royal Marriage Act--Thomasc