Excerpt from Domestic Portraiture, or the Successful Application of Religious Principle in the Education of a Family: Exemplified in the Memoirs of Three of the Deceased Children of the Rev. Legh Richmond Often, however, this great and awful doctrine is brought in as a cover to parental neglect, when it would be just as reasonable to assign it as an excuse for expo sing your child to a pestilence, or for leaving him, in sickness, without medical aid. The cases above alluded to, and others quite nume rous enough to form a rule, and not an exception, show that when certain means are used, the answering results may be expected to follow; and that the failure' Of the parent's hopes, may generally be traced to their own deficiency in conduct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.