 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1900 - Počet stránok 752
...a submissive wife," and no doubt she was spirited enough (witness Bishop Burnett's observation that if those in petticoats had been in breeches they would have held faster), but she and her husband appear to have lived very happily together and she must have been a very charming... | |
 | August Drähms - 1900 - Počet stránok 432
...and independence of the father, so that Bishop Burnett said, in comparing them with the brothers, " If those in petticoats had been in breeches, they would have held faster." Napoleon's mother was a woman of great force of character, while his wife in turn was a person of but... | |
 | August Drähms - 1900 - Počet stránok 424
...and independence of the father, so that Bishop Burnett said, in comparing them with the brothers, " If those in petticoats had been in breeches, they would have held faster." Napoleon's mother was a woman of great force of character, while his wife in turn was a person of but... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - Počet stránok 386
...acquaintance. She was a " wise and worthy woman," says Bishop Burnet, " more likely to have maintained the post than either of her brothers ; according to a saying...had been in breeches, they would have held faster." The bishop was personally acquainted with her. Lord Dartmouth adds, in a note to Burnet's encomium... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - Počet stránok 382
...acquaintance. She was a " wise and worthy woman," says Bishop Burnet, " more likely to have maintained the post than either of her brothers ; according to a saying...had been in breeches, they would have held faster." The bishop was personally acquainted with her. Lord Dartmouth adds, in a note to Burnet's encomium... | |
 | Ira Boseley - 1907 - Počet stránok 332
...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...had been in breeches they would have held faster." Her lineal descendant has more than once been importuned to put the tradition to a practical test,... | |
 | William Thomas Stead - 1899 - Počet stránok 656
...Fauconberg. She was a woman of great parts, and Bishop Burnet, comparing her with Richard Cromwell, says, " But if those in petticoats had been in breeches, they would have held faster." She was a staunch royalist, and a frequent visitor to the Court of Charles the Second. Lady Frances,... | |
 | Antonia Fraser - 2001 - Počet stránok 796
...who was to pronounce on the Cromwell family as a whole that "those who wore the breeches deserved the petticoats better; but if those in petticoats had been in breeches, they would have held faster". 7 In youth however, dark ringlets and dark eyes of a teasing expression, arched eyebrows and a full... | |
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Falconbridge, 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 deserved petticoats better, but if those in petticoats had been in breeches... 
