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Chapter 6: Frankenstein: The 1818 Text by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account.
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“You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account.
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It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me
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From this day natural philosophy, and particularly chemistry, in the most comprehensive sense of the term, became nearly my sole occupation.
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When I had attained the age of seventeen my parents resolved that I should become a student at the university of Ingolstadt.
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We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.
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I am by birth a Genevese, and my family is one of the most distinguished of that republic. My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
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So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.
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I write a few lines in haste to say that I am safe—and well advanced on my voyage. This letter will reach England by a merchantman now on its homeward voyage from Archangel; more fortunate than I, who may not see my native land, perhaps, for many years.
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How slowly the time passes here, encompassed as I am by frost and snow! Yet a second step is taken towards my enterprise.
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You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
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“Many of us have a secret girl living within us. Mine awakened when I was twelve years old Cerritos and the film Cleopatra Jones came out amid the blaxploitation film explosion.”
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The “black and white, sacred or secular” universe that Stephanie Stalvey described, and which formed so much of our evangelical childhoods, required careful construction and curation.
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“Dear Lord,” I prayed. “Thank you for this food and for this day. And I pray that Grandpa will get saved. In Jesus’s name, Amen.”
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I’ve always felt most comfortable in the water. I grew up splashing around in the ocean off Rehoboth Beach, a mid-Atlantic resort town on the Delaware coast, and I swam and dove competitively throughout my childhood and teenage years.
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On June 27, 2018, I was sitting on the beach. I had been there all day every day for two and a half weeks while my twelve- and fifteen-year-old sons took part in the Santa Cruz Junior Lifeguard Program, as they’d done every summer since they were six years old.
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THE HOUSE REPUBLICANS WERE SCHEDULED to meet again on November 17, 2020, to elect our leadership team for the 117th Congress.