 My father was ignorant," said Felix, bluntly. "He knew neither the complication of the human system, nor the way in which drugs counteract each other. Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.  Works of George Eliot ...: Felix Holt - Page 63by George Eliot - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Mary Ann Evans - 1866 - 352 pages
...gravely. Notwithstanding his conscientiousness and a certain originality in his own mental disposition, he was too little used to high principle quite dissociated...five miserable years to a stupid brute of a country apothecary—my poor father left money for that—he thought nothing could be finer for me. No matter:... | |
 | George Eliot - Domestic fiction - 1866 - 200 pages
...nevertheless a man of God ; and the journals of various Christians whose names have left a sweet savor might be cited in the same sense. Moreover, your father,...Cathartic Pills are a drastic compound which may be as had as poison to half the people -who swallow them ; that the Elixir is an absurd farrago of a dozen... | |
 | George Eliot - 1869 - 568 pages
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 | George Eliot - 1871 - 568 pages
...nevertheless a man of God ; and the journals of various Christians whose names have left a sweet savor might be cited in the same sense. Moreover, your father,...brute of a country apothecary — my poor father left monej*for that — he thought nothing could be finer for me. No matter ; I know that the Cathartic... | |
 | George Eliot, Alexander Main - Aphorisms and apothegms in literature - 1873 - 444 pages
...up genteelly and order new clothes. That's not a rigorous consequence to my understanding. — o — Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it...prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. I know there 'sa stage of speculation in which a man may doubt whether a pickpocket is blameworthy • —... | |
 | George Eliot - 1875 - 460 pages
...genteelly and order new clothes. That 's not a rigorous consequence to my understanding. — o — Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it...prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm. I know there 'sa stage of speculation in which a man may doubt whether a pickpocket is blameworthy — but... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1881 - 406 pages
...granted that it is very different from that which had been attributed to him." GEORGE ELIOT says : " Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm." PROF. KUESTKR, the distinguished director of the Augusta hospital in Berlin, has been delegated by... | |
 | George Eliot - 1885 - 404 pages
...conditions of holding them while the world is what it is, are such as would jar on me like grating metal.1 Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.1 I should say, teach any truth you can, whether it's in the Testament or out of it. It's little... | |
 | George Eliot - England - 1890 - 646 pages
...nevertheless a man of God; and th« journals of various Christians whose names have left a sweet savor might be cited in the same sense. Moreover, your father,...happen to do more harm. I know something about these fhings. I was 'prentice for five miserable years to a stupid brute of a country apothecary — my poor... | |
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