Curran and His Contemporaries Author:Charles Phillips Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: trace all the maternal features in the filial piety that delighted to portray them. After her death he placed an humble monument over her remains, upon which... more » he inscribed the following memorial, as well as I can recollect it from his very fre quent recital : " Here lieth all that was mortal of Martha Curran -- a woman of many virtues -- few foibles -- great talents, and no vice. This tablet was inscribed to her memory by a son who loved her, and whom she loved." Indeed, his recurrences to her memory were continual. He often told me that, after his success at the bar, which happily she lived to see, and the fruits of which to her death she shared, Mrs. Curran has said to him, " O Jacky, Jacky, what« less