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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 Brown, Charles Brockden
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
Criticism, then, has to methodize and focus them.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
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
Debate on the Humble Petition and Advice of the Rump Parliament to Cromwell in 1657, to assume the Title of King; abridged, methodized and digested. intern. evid.
From Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman
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
The rules of evidence in civil and in criminal cases, in law and in equity, being only reason methodized, are certainly the same.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Missing that aim, the Rosicrucian story lived to be adorned by superstitious fancy, with ideas of mystery and magic, which in the Comte de Gabalis were methodized into a consistent romance.
From The Spectator, Volume 2. by Addison, Joseph
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
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
But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.
From Modern Painters Volume II (of V) by Ruskin, John
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 Lamb, Charles
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
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
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