📔 Frankenstein

These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardour.

In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge, and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.

As I was in a state of extreme debility, I resolved to sail directly towards the town, as a place where I could most easily procure nourishment.

And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge […].

Last Monday (July 31st) we were nearly surrounded by ice, which closed in the ship on all sides, scarcely leaving her the sea-room in which she floated.

Twice I actually hired myself as an under-mate in a Greenland whaler, and acquitted myself to admiration.

My brothers were considerably younger than myself; but I had a friend in one of my schoolfellows, who compensated for this deficiency.

The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but every thing is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps, which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.

I have no ambition to lose my life on the post-road between St. Petersburgh and Archangel.

I believe that I have no enemy on earth, and none surely would have been so wicked as to destroy me wantonly.