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Though it’s offered through the art department, the students are equipped with multiple kinds of constructive tools: they learn to write, think visually, and methodize their research on the topic.
From Time ● May 26, 2015
I believed that an attempt to range and methodize some of our most leading passions would be a good preparative to such an inquiry as we are going to make in the ensuing discourse.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Everything wore a sombre, heavy air—even the men seemed born to methodize on some one object.
From The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth by Templeton, Timothy
There is a certain irregular Way in their Narrations or Discourse, which has something more warm and pleasing than we meet with among Men who are used to adjust and methodize their Thoughts.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
I found an opinion common through all the offices, and general in the public at large, that it would prove impossible to reform and methodize the office of pay-master-general.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
They are somehow opposed, yet art turns out to be only "nature methodized."
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
On the other hand, science is exclusively a knowledge of nature, consisting of methodized observations concerning distinct orders of facts, and rational inferences founded upon these.
From The Relations of Science and Religion The Morse Lecture, 1880 by Calderwood, Henry
Those rules, of old discovered, not devised, Are nature still, but nature methodized; Nature, like liberty, is but restrained By the same laws which first herself ordained.
From An Essay on Criticism by Pope, Alexander
The old States, methodized by orders, settled the more ancient.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
In the meantime the bombardment of the forts and villages to the east of the city is continuing, and with that passion for system in everything which distinguishes the Germans, it is being methodized.
From Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Labouchere, Henry
Something in every one of them seemed to me to stand in the way of all economy in their administration, and prevented every possibility of methodizing the system.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.
From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by Ruskin, John
We find him, while methodizing and illustrating the data of the special science, uniformly keeping in view its relation to philosophy as a whole.
From Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' by Grote, George
The duties of the secretary of the society were laid down and were arduous, including much foreign correspondence, in addition to the correcting, abstracting, and methodizing of such papers as required it.
From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre
Least of all would I fix the transitory spirit of civil fury by perpetuating and methodizing it in tyrannic government.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
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