Citations:contest

English citations of contest

					1818
ME «	15th c.	16th c.	17th c.	18th c.	19th c.	20th c.	21st c.

• 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.

  But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.