 I did not know a great deal that she has not the least notion of yet. How long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns...  The Quarterly Review - Page 361edited by - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Francis Warre Cornish - 1926 - 268 pages
...governesses at home, girls might learn lists of dates, ' the chronological order of the Kings of England, and of the Roman Emperors as low as Severus, besides...the metals, semimetals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.'2 Not to be able to put the map of Europe together, not to know the names of the principal... | |
 | Lady Barbara Nightingale Stephen - 1927 - 420 pages
...prevailed till well on in the nineteenth century. " How long ago is it, Aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with...semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers." The lessons, such as they were, were to be dropped as soon as the Miss Bertrams were seventeen, and... | |
 | Henrietta Channing (Dana) Skinner - 1928 - 314 pages
...ten-year-old-cousin, Fanny Price, "so ignorant," because she could not, as they had done long before her age, "repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with...and most of the principal events of their reigns, and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and all... | |
 | 1901 - 872 pages
...self-respecting girl must stay in the schoolroom till she could repeat "the Roman Emperors as low as Severos, besides a great deal of the heathen mythology and all the metals and semi-metals, planets and distinguished philosophers." These young ladies were very proud of their... | |
 | 1897 - 1044 pages
...text books. The accomplished pupils, like the young ladies in Mansfield Park, were able ' to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with...and most of the principal events of their reigns,' also ' of the Roman Emperors as low as Severus ; besides a great deal of the heathen mythology, and... | |
 | John Halperin - 1975 - 352 pages
...and femininely charming quotation from Louis XIV, and with her cousin's early boast about repeating 'the chronological order of the kings of England,...and most of the principal events of their reigns' (Vol. I, ch. ii). Jane Austen knew how hard it was for women to be educated. Unlike Catherine Morland's,... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 1987 - 318 pages
...accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns . . . and of the Roman emperors as low Sevcrus: besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and...Semi-Metals, Planets, and distinguished Philosophers." To which Austen adds, "it is not very wonderful that with all their promising talents and early information,... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 1987 - 318 pages
...Bertrams" know some French, can play duets, are able to recite the kings of England in chronological order "with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns . . . and of the Roman emperors as low Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and... | |
 | Edward Copeland, Juliet McMaster - 1997 - 278 pages
...long ago it is, aunt, since we used to repeat the chronological order of the kings of England . . .' 'Yes', added the other; 'and of the Roman emperors...SemiMetals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers.' (MP 18-19) Austen is not going to let us catch her making her novels mythical. She customarily shies... | |
 | Judy Simons - 1997 - 242 pages
...on superficial information designed to make them appear clever and well-informed in company - '... the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great...Semi-Metals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers' (pp. 18-19). The structure of Mansfield Park is as severely built round the contrast between the girls'... | |
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