I HAD in Classic Quotes

1  Besides, I had a contempt for the uses of modern natural philosophy.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

2  Waldman, whom I had never seen, as he had hitherto been out of town.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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3  As a child I had not been content with the results promised by the modern professors of natural science.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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4  I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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5  When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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6  I had sufficient leisure for these and many other reflections during my journey to Ingolstadt, which was long and fatiguing.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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7  I had determined at one time that the memory of these evils should die with me, but you have won me to alter my determination.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4

8  He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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9  In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3

10  I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2

11  I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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12  I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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13  I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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14  These volumes were my study day and night, and my familiarity with them increased that regret which I had felt, as a child, on learning that my father's dying injunction had forbidden my uncle to allow me to embark in a seafaring life.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1

15  With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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16  When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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17  We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 3