 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1780 - 206 pages
...the danger, which may from thence arife to others or to themfelves. Thefe philofophers, confider me» in their experiments, no more than they do mice in...of mephitick gas. Whatever his Grace may think of himfelf, they look upon him, and every thing that belongs to him, with no more regard than they do... | |
 | George Mason - English language - 1801 - 260 pages
...Sp. FS^ B. VI. C.VI. ft.a;. MEPHITIC. adj. [fee Johnfon in] Mephitical. Thefe philofophers coniider men in their experiments, no more than they do mice in an air-pump, or in a recipient of mrphitic gas. Burke. « ME'RCHANT. «. --- One who trafficks to rc"... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 440 pages
...of thft danger, which may from thence arife to others or to themfelves. Thefe philofophers, confider men in their experiments, no more than they do mice...of mephitick gas. Whatever his Grace may think of himfelf, they look upon him, and every thing that belongs to him, with no more regard than they do... | |
 | George Mason - English language - 1803 - 310 pages
...F. 9. B. VI. C. VI. ft. 27. MEPHI'TIC. adj. [fee Jobnfm in] Mephitieal. Thefe philofophers confider men in their experiments, no more than they do mice in an air pump, or in a recipient of «irfLHic gas. Barte. * ME'RCHANT. n One who traf** ficks to remote countries." î- Formerly, fynonymous... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1819 - 864 pages
...nature is so hard, as the heart of a thorough-paced metaphysician." " These philosophers,'' he says, " consider men in their experiments, no more than they do mice in an air pump, or in a recipient of mcphitic gas. They are carried on with such a headlong rage towards their desperate trials, that they... | |
 | England - 1834 - 1046 pages
...desolation. Their humanity is at the lurrizon, and, li/te the horizon, it always Jiien before tliem. Those philosophers consider men, in their experiments, no more than they do mice in an exhausted receiver, or in a recipient of mephitic gas. Whatever his Grace may think of himself, they... | |
 | sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 pages
...and to act in corps, a more dreadful calamity cannot arise out of hell to scourge mankind. * * * * " These philosophers consider men in their experiments,...than they do mice in an air pump or in a recipient of mephitic gas. Whatever his Grace may think of himself, they look upon him, and every thing that belongs... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 662 pages
...are intoxicated with it, and it has rendered them fearless of the danger, which may from thence arise he aggressors ; that it did appear to the gasWhatever his Grace may think of himself, they look upon him, and every thing that belongs to him,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 618 pages
...with it, and it has rendered them fearless of the danger, which may from thence arise to others or lo themselves. These philosophers, consider men in their...they do mice in an air pump, or in a recipient of mephitic gas. Whatever his grace may think of himself, they look upon him, and every thing that helongs... | |
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Grace may think of himself, they look upon him, and every thing that belongs to him, with no more regard than they do upon the whiskers of that little long-tailed animal, that has... 
