 | Henry Gardiner Adams - Women - 1857 - 1030 pages
...spirit, and her beauty. Bishop Burnet, who styles her "a wise and worthy woman," adds, "that she was more likely to have maintained the post of protector than either of her brothers ; according to an observation respecting her, that those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better;... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1857 - 810 pages
...spirit, and her beauty. Bishop Burnet, who styles her "a wise and worthy woman," adds, "that she was more likely to have maintained the post of protector than either of her brothers; according to an observation respecting her, that those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better;... | |
 | Bernard Burke - Baronetage - 1866 - 690 pages
...destructive to his, and grew to hate him perfectly." Of Lady Fauconberg, Bnrnet writes : — "She was a wise and worthy woman, more likely to have maintained...the post (of protector) than either of her brothers ; according to a saying that went of her, that thote vho wore breeeha detervtrt p'tticoatt better ;... | |
 | James Waylen - Dunes, Battle of the, France, 1658 - 1880 - 488 pages
...personal merit are uniformly eulogistic. Bishop Burnet styles her a wise and worthy woman, and one who was more likely to have maintained the post of Protector than either of her brothers. A footnote in Hughes' s Letters describes her as a Lady of great beauty and of a very high spirit,... | |
 | George W. Redway - Great Britain - 1886 - 308 pages
...wife of Lord Fauconberg. Bishop Burnet, who styles her a wise and worthy woman, says, that "She was more likely to have maintained the post (of Protector) than either of her brothers," according to a saying that went of her, " That those who wore breeches, deserved petticoats better;... | |
 | Yorkshire (England) - 1890 - 358 pages
...Burnet represents her as having much of her father's strength of character. BURNET says, " She was a wise and worthy woman, more likely to have maintained...the post (of Protector) than either of her brothers ; according to a saying that went of her, that those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better,... | |
 | George Edward Cokayne - Nobility - 1890 - 432 pages
...Fauconberg." See vol. ii, p. 102, note " a," tub " Cadogan." . (°) She was, according to Bishop Burnet, " n wise and worthy woman, more likely to have maintained the post [of Protector] than cither of her brothers." (d) See account of her materunl descent from the Fowler family in the "Her.... | |
 | Gilbert Burnet - Great Britain - 1897 - 666 pages
...married to Claypole, and died a little before himself: another was married to the earl of Fauconberg, a wise and worthy woman, more likely to have maintained the post than either of her brothers ; according to a saying that went of her, that those who wore breeches... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1899 - 948 pages
...that she was " a wise and worthy woman," with the well known and remarkable addition that " she was more likely to have maintained the post [of Protector] than either of her brothers : according to a saying that went of her, ' That those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better... | |
 | Ira Boseley - Congregational churches - 1907 - 332 pages
...Lord Viscount Falconberg. Bishop Burnet styles her "a wise and worthy woman " ; and says " she was more likely to have maintained the post of Protector than either of her Brothers," according to the saying which went with her, " That those who wore breeches deserved petticoats better,... | |
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