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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 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 paymaster-general.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund
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
That what was done in France was a wild attempt to methodize anarchy; to perpetuate and fix disorder.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Burke, Edmund
Farewell, in haste, from a head that is ill to methodize, a stomach to digest, and all out of Tune.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)
At his command, the historical examples of vice and virtue were methodized in fifty-three books, and every citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, the lesson or the warning of past times.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart
They in turn methodized them for their forty-eight deputies, and one hundred and ninety-two servants—in addition to the female who came to the house to receive the weekly wash—performed their daily task intelligently and harmoniously.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
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 Newman, Francis William
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
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
For the better methodizing the particulars of these games and exercises, it will be necessary to begin with an account of the Athletæ, or combatants.
From The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians and Grecians (Vol. 1 of 6) by Rollin, Charles
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
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
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
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
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