| James Waylen - 1880 - 488 páginas
...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 Hwjhess Lcffers describes her as a Lady of great beauty and of a very high spirit, who... | |
| Gilbert Burnet - 1897 - 666 páginas
...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... | |
| Ira Boseley - 1907 - 332 páginas
...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, but if those... | |
| 1918 - 564 páginas
...replica. Mary has none of the grim-lipped Puritanism of her age. She is tolerant — even humorous. "A wise and worthy woman more likely to have maintained the post than either of her brothers," a contemporary appraisal runs. There are no less than six Coopers in... | |
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