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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Thou neither seest thy original nor actual infirmities; but hast such an opinion of thyself, and of what thou dost, as plainly renders thee to be one that did never see a necessity of Christ's personal righteousness to justify thee before God.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
 * Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.


 * 1851 — Herman Melville. Moby Dick.
 * In these last-mentioned haunts you see only sailors; but in New Bedford, actual cannibals stand chatting at street corners; savages outright; many of whom yet carry on their bones unholy flesh.
 * One reason perhaps is, that not one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record.