COUNTRY in Classic Quotes

1  I passed three days in these rambles and at length discovered the open country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

2  His son was bred in the service of his country, and Agatha had ranked with ladies of the highest distinction.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

3  My uncle is not pleased with the idea of a military career in a distant country, but Ernest never had your powers of application.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

4  Their melancholy is soothing, and their joy elevating, to a degree I never experienced in studying the authors of any other country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

5  The prospect of marrying a Christian and remaining in a country where women were allowed to take a rank in society was enchanting to her.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14

6  On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life and fixed themselves in their native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

7  The republican institutions of our country have produced simpler and happier manners than those which prevail in the great monarchies that surround it.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

8  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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

9  Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

10  I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the ramble of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

11  This man, whose name was Beaufort, was of a proud and unbending disposition and could not bear to live in poverty and oblivion in the same country where he had formerly been distinguished for his rank and magnificence.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

12  He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

13  But the old man decidedly refused, thinking himself bound in honour to my friend, who, when he found the father inexorable, quitted his country, nor returned until he heard that his former mistress was married according to her inclinations.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2

14  The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

15  At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2

16  The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

17  If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4