Excerpt from Ladies of the Reformation: Memoirs of Distinguished Female Characters, Belonging to the Period of the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century Then, as to the memoirs themselves, to select from large and widely-spread materials - to be able to judge in what parts of the story greater detail ought to be given, and in what parts it was proper to compress - in short, to seize upon the most salient passages, and yet to bring the whole within as narrow limits as possible, without, however, falling into the mistake of making the narrative too general, and therefore uninteresting and uninstructive - which, ' at least, has been the author's endeavour - are points which required much consideration, and, indeed, a full examination of the materials for each life, even when only a part could be brought into the nar rative. 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.