Excerpt from The Annual Monitor for 1853: Or Obituary of the Members of the Society of Friends, in Great Britain and Ireland, for the Year 1852 But this is far from being the only guard which we believe to be requisite. Apart perhaps, from all desire for the vain honour of the departed, we are very apt to entertain an undue estimate of the importance and value to others, of that which has been truly instructive, and deeply interesting to ourselves. There are family lessons in the sick and dying chamber of a parent or a chlid, whose value to the immediate circle, is beyond all price, but which cannot, with advantage, be communi cated to others; and we are not sure, whether, in many cases, the very force of the lesson, to those for whom it was designed, is not likely to be weakened by the publication of it. 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.