George Eliot Quote

No doubt if it had been discovered who wrote the " Vestiges," many an ingenious structure of probabilities would have been spoiled, and some disgust might have been felt for a real author who made comparatively so shabby an appearance of likelihood.


Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Essays and Leaves from a Notebook, The Wasp Credited with the Honeycomb (p. 111), J.B. Lippincott Company. 1901


No doubt if it had been discovered who wrote the Vestiges, many an ingenious structure of probabilities would have been spoiled, and some disgust...

No doubt if it had been discovered who wrote the Vestiges, many an ingenious structure of probabilities would have been spoiled, and some disgust...

No doubt if it had been discovered who wrote the Vestiges, many an ingenious structure of probabilities would have been spoiled, and some disgust...

No doubt if it had been discovered who wrote the Vestiges, many an ingenious structure of probabilities would have been spoiled, and some disgust...