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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
They persisted in the use of their simple fare, and endeavoured to contract their wants, and methodize their occupations, by a standard as rigid as possible.
From Ormond, Volume I (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Charles Brockden Brown
Lord Brougham did something to methodize, and more to popularize, the facts of science.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
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 Joseph Addison
Let me take my favourite and lonely path, and, by a deliberate review of the past, refresh my memory and methodize my recollections.
From Jane Talbot by Charles Brockden Brown
We trace it from old barbarism to the methodized Egyptian idolatry; to the more flexible Polytheism of Syria and Greece; the poetical Pantheism of philosophers, and the moral monotheism of a few sages.
From Phases of Faith Passages from the History of My Creed by Francis William Newman
There are two parts in a man's life, the serious and the merry; and each must be regulated and methodized.
From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch
Since the death of Priscillian, the rude attempts of persecution have been refined and methodized in the holy office, which assigns their distinct parts to the ecclesiastical and secular powers.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Henry Hart Milman
His habits of study are wisely methodized, so as to husband time, and make his efforts tell without waste upon results.
From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin
The doctrine of Pope's essay is, in brief, follow Nature, and in order that you may follow nature, observe the rules, which are only "Nature methodized," and also imitate the ancients.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers
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 Edmund Burke
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 Edmund Burke
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 George Grote
But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.
From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by John Ruskin
I have read little; I have a very weak memory, and retain little of what I read; am unused to composition in which any methodizing is required.
From The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb
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