Between him and a dandy of the purest water, like Capito, for instance, there is the same difference that is to be found between a piece of genuine old meissner porcelain and some of modern manufacture.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
And his colleague meissner said, My good brother, neither would I. Who knows what stands behind this man?
"Dialogues on the Supersensual Life"
Jacob Behmen
"I get every year," he said, "the elaborate reports of Henle and meissner-volumes of I suppose 400 pages altogether-and they consist merely of abstracts of the memoirs and works which have been written on Anatomy and Physiology-only abstracts of them.
"Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work"
P. Chalmers Mitchell