 | Samuel Smiles - 1875 - 408 σελίδες
...him, — " Dear Sam, I am in prison for debt — come and help your loving mother," — replied, " Dear Mother, so am I, which prevents his duty being...paid to his loving mother by her affectionate son." Steele and Sheridan both bore the load lightly. When entertaining company, they put the bailiffs who... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1875 - 416 σελίδες
...wrote to Sam, who had been allowing her a hundred a year out of the proceeds of his acting, " Dear Sam, I am in prison for debt; come and assist your loving mother, E. Foote." To which her son characteristically replied, " Dear Mother, so am I ; which prevents his duty being... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 404 σελίδες
...prison for debt ; come and assist your loving mother, " E. FOOTE." To this came the reply : — " DEAE MOTHER, — So am I ; which prevents his duty being...loving mother by her affectionate son, " SAM. FOOTE." In their ambitious attempts to set off renowned heroes, life- writers have usually forgotten that they... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 σελίδες
...wrote to Sam, who had been allowing her a hundred a year out of the proceeds of his acting : — " Dear Sam, I am in prison for debt ; come and assist your loving mother, E. Foote." To which her son characteristically replied — "Dear mother, so am I ; which prevents his duty being... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1876 - 432 σελίδες
...embarrassments she wrote the following laconic epistle to her son : — 294 THE PRINCE AND THE PICTUEE. " DEAR SAM, — I am in prison for debt ; come and assist your loving mother, " E. FOOTE." To this came the reply : — " DEAR MOTHER, — So am I ; which prevents his duty being paid to his... | |
 | John Diprose - 1877 - 308 σελίδες
...of Samuel, who allowed her a hundred a year. On one occasion she wrote him as follows : — " Dear Sam, — I am in prison for debt ; come and assist your loving mother, E. FOOTE." To this brief note he replied : — " Dear Mother, — So am I, which prevents his duty being paid... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1881 - 314 σελίδες
...mother wrote to him, " Dear Sam, I am in prison for debt ; come and help your loving mother," replied, " Dear Mother, so am I, which prevents his duty being...paid to his loving mother by her affectionate son." Steele and Sheridan both bore the load lightly. When entertaining company, they put the bailiffs who... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 σελίδες
...her son, was often in debt difficulties, and in one of these temporary plights she wrote : — "DEAR SAM, — I am in prison for debt; come and assist your loving mother, E. FOOTE." To which was the following laconic reply, — "DEAR MOTHER, — So am I, which prevents his duty being... | |
 | Edward John Hardy - 1886 - 332 σελίδες
...debt ; come and assist you loving mother, E. Foote." To which her son characteristically replied — " Dear mother, so am I ; which prevents his duty being...loving mother by her affectionate son, Sam Foote." Mothers ought not to deceive themselves so far as to think that when they over-indulge their children... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1890 - 342 σελίδες
..." Dear Sam, I am in prison for debt ; come and assist your loving mother, E. Foote." Sam replied, " Dear Mother, so am I, which prevents his duty being...loving mother by her affectionate son, Sam Foote." " Eo rus," wrote Voltaire one day, to notify Piron that he was "going into the country " ; Piron, to... | |
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Dear Mother, — So am I, which prevents his duty being paid to his loving mother by her affectionate son, SAM. FOOTE. 
