Excerpt from Memoirs of Celebrated Female Sovereigns, Vol. 1 of 2 The intention of this work is to present in a small compass, and a one view, an idea of the in fluence which a female government has had gene rally on men and nations, and of the influence which the possession of power has had individually on the female character. If it should be criticised as being too brief, perhaps it will also be recollected that it would have been far easier to write such a work in twenty volumes than in two; but in that case, the latter end of the history would certainly have forgotten the beginning and the principal object, that of presenting a general coup-d'azil which might be grasped by the mind at once, would have been defeated altogether. 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.