 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
 | Agnes Porter - 1998 - 402 pages
...consisted mainly of long lists. In Jane Austen's Mansfield Park Maria and Julia Bertram could 'repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with...and most of the principal events of their reigns', together with 'the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology,... | |
 | Devoney Looser - 2005 - 298 pages
...Price's ignorance. Fanny is ridiculed because, though she is ten years old, she does not yet "repeat the chronological order of the kings of England, with...and most of the principal events of their reigns" (18). Austen's early burlesque on history is more than a feminist attack on the way the past is textualized,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2003 - 562 pages
...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 Metals, Semi-Metals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers."4 "Very true, indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your... | |
 | Jane Collier - 2003 - 226 pages
...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...added the other; "and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus;1 besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi-Metals, Planets,... | |
 | Josephine Ross - 2003 - 316 pages
...being 'so very ignorant', while their own smattering of learning ranges from drawing and geography to 'a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the...semi-Metals, Planets and distinguished philosophers'; by the end of that novel, however, their father can only lament that 'with all the cost and care of... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2005 - 844 pages
...principal events of their reigns!" "Yes," added the other; "and of the Roman emperors as low as Severas; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and...the Metals, Semi-Metals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers."12 "Very true, indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your... | |
 | Jane. Austen - 2006 - 318 pages
...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...semi-metals, planets, and distinguished philosophers." "Very true indeed, my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your poor cousin has... | |
 | Janet Todd - 2006 - 3 pages
...principal rivers of Russia and recite the chronological order of the kings of England and Roman emperors, 'besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi- Metals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers' (MP, 1:2), but they lack principles and any... | |
 | Marjorie Garson, Associate Professor of English Erindale College Marjorie Garson - 2007 - 497 pages
...displayed by the kind of rote performance that requires repetitive drill — they boast of their mastery of 'the chronological order of the kings of England,...accession, and most of the principal events of their reign' (54), 'besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi-Metals, Planets,... | |
 | 1821 - 602 pages
...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...Semi-Metals, Planets, and distinguished philosophers." " Very true, Indeed,- my dears, but you are blessed with wonderful memories, and your poor cousin has... | |
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