DISCOVERY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.
2 I replied, however, that we were on a voyage of discovery towards the northern pole.
3 Some miracle might have produced it, yet the stages of the discovery were distinct and probable.
4 A new light seemed to dawn upon my mind, and bounding with joy, I communicated my discovery to my father.
5 Our little voyages of discovery were often prolonged by the successive objects that presented themselves.
6 Overjoyed at this discovery, he hastened to the house, which was situated in a mean street near the Reuss.
7 The astonishment which I had at first experienced on this discovery soon gave place to delight and rapture.
8 I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.
9 I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
10 You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discovery composed the whole of our good Uncle Thomas' library.
11 In spite of the intense labour and wonderful discoveries of modern philosophers, I always came from my studies discontented and unsatisfied.
12 But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
13 When night came I quitted my retreat and wandered in the wood; and now, no longer restrained by the fear of discovery, I gave vent to my anguish in fearful howlings.
14 In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
15 These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
16 When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.
17 A woman deposed that she lived near the beach and was standing at the door of her cottage, waiting for the return of the fishermen, about an hour before she heard of the discovery of the body, when she saw a boat with only one man in it push off from that part of the shore where the corpse was afterwards found.
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