Citations:conditions


 * 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.
 * And now I was once more delivered from the most miserable of all conditions of life; and what to do next with myself I was to consider.
 * Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.
 * How mercifully can our Creator treat His creatures, even in those conditions in which they seemed to be overwhelmed in destruction!


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends."