Mary Shelley Quote

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the young. It seems as if the eternal Lawgiver intended that, at a certain age, man should leave father, mother, and the dwelling of his infancy, to seek his fortunes over the wide world.


Lodore (ed. 1835)


We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the...

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the...

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the...

We could almost believe that we are destined by Providence to an unsettled position on the globe, so invariably is a love of change implanted in the...