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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 He asked me the history of my earlier years.
2 Such was the history of my beloved cottagers.
3 Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends.
4 Our conversations are not always confined to his own history and misfortunes.
5 I read it, as I had read the other volumes which had fallen into my hands, as a true history.
6 At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
7 You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas' library.
8 The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history.
9 I now related my history briefly but with firmness and precision, marking the dates with accuracy and never deviating into invective or exclamation.
10 You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences.
11 A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
12 We visited the wondrous cave and the little cabinets of natural history, where the curiosities are disposed in the same manner as in the collections at Servox and Chamounix.
13 We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.
14 He began his lecture by a recapitulation of the history of chemistry and the various improvements made by different men of learning, pronouncing with fervour the names of the most distinguished discoverers.
15 Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.
16 Frankenstein discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he asked to see them and then himself corrected and augmented them in many places, but principally in giving the life and spirit to the conversations he held with his enemy.
17 By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
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