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" 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 361
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 24

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1821 - 596 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...other ; " and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus ; hesides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology, and all the Metals, Semi-Metals, Planets, and distinguished...
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The Nineteenth Century and After, Volume 91, Part 2

1922 - 584 pages
...is revealed by the Miss Bertrams, who had learnt ' the chronological order of the kings of England, and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus, besides...semi-metals, planets and distinguished philosophers.' Naturally, Mrs. Bennet could never be got to understand an entail, just as her predecessor, Mrs. Shandy,...
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The Twentieth Century, Volume 91

1922 - 1246 pages
...is revealed by the Miss Bertrams, who had learnt ' the chronological order of the kings of England, and of the Roman emperors as low as Severus, besides...semi-metals, planets and distinguished philosophers.' Naturally, Mrs. Bennet could never be got to understand an entail, just as her predecessor, Mrs. Shandy,...
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The Nineteenth Century, Volume 41

1897 - 1074 pages
...England, with the dates of their accession, and most of the principal events of their reigns,' also ' of the Roman Emperors as low as Severus ; besides...semimetals, planets, and distinguished philosophers.' But this does not satisfy us to-day. \Ve prefer children being taught by several teachers, each having...
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Jane Austen: Critical Assessments, Volumes 1-4

Ian Littlewood - 1998 - 496 pages
...works there is no classical allusion save in the Bertram girls' absurd general catalog which includes 'the Roman emperors as low as Severus; besides a great deal of the Heathen Mythology' (MP, pp. I8-I9). There is not one other reference to any classical myth, story, or character. There...
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