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shashathree at Jun 28, 2020 10:07 PM

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“you to be wife-ridden.”. If a husband was applauded
& respected as much for being influenced by his Wife
(if she possess common sense & prudence) as he is jeered
at for it — there would be less unhapppiness & misfortune
in married life. *

While in America he was engaged with a Company to
build Steam Boats by Fitch's patent (See papers for all particulars)
which failed in consequence of his not being supported by
the Company or any monied Men, and leaving the Scheme
he embarked for the W. Indies, in a fair way, as he
thought, of Success, he found on his return, the Boat sold
and the whole plan abandoned, and an end put to his sanguine
expectations of honor and profit. A Gentleman who came
from N. Orleans with a large Capital to embark in
the business died in Phila. Boats were to have been built
to navigate the Missisippi, then thought by many quite
chimerical, but since put into successful operation by
more fortunate projectors. This was both in a pecuniary
and ambitious view, a great source (and justly so) of mortifica-
tion and disappointment, and in his life he had more than
falls to the lot of most Men, and it might be said of him

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“you to be wife-ridden.”. If a husband was applauded
& respected as much for being influenced by his Wife
(if she possess common sense & prudence) as he is jeered
at for it — there would be less unhapppiness & misfortune
in married life. *

While in America he was engaged