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  • Nor was it until some days had elapsed, that we were able to methodise it, or reduce it into form.

    The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

  • In the year following he was earnestly persuaded by Dr. Kilbie and others, to review the Logic Lectures which he had read some years past in his College; and, that done, to methodise and print them, for the ease and public good of posterity.

    Lives of John Donne Henry Wotton Rich'd Hooker George Herbert etc Walton, Izaak 1898

  • What the mere perusal of the text could suggest Pope wanted no assistance to collect or methodise; but more was necessary.

    Lives of the English Poets: Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope Johnson, Samuel 1891

  • The angelic doctor charmed by his mere presence, his grace of person, his winning smile, his dove's eyes; he showed how amiable piety might be; his eloquence was festooned with blossoms; he strewed the path to heaven with roses; he conquered by docility; yet under his sweetness lay strength, and to methodise and popularise moral self-superintendence was to achieve much.

    A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

  • With this equipment, such as it was, Mr. Green set to work to methodise the Coleridgian doctrines, and to construct from them nothing less than such a system of philosophy as should "virtually include the law and explanation of all being, conscious and unconscious, and of all correlativity and duty, and be applicable directly or by deduction to whatsoever the human mind can contemplate -- sensuous or supersensuous -- of experience, purpose, or imagination."

    English Men of Letters: Coleridge 1871

  • The preface intimates that the papers were written in Latin, French, Italian, and Dutch, and placed in the editor's hands in England, on his promising to methodise them and put them all into one language; but I do not observe the slightest allusion to the work having previously appeared either in English or French, although we find that Barbier, in his _Dict. des Anon. _, gives the French edit. 1 pt.

    Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • His logical and other treatises have served to brace the intellects, methodise the studies, and concentrate the activities of thousands -- we had nearly said of millions of minds.

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845

  • His logical and other treatises have served to brace the intellects, methodise the studies, and concentrate the activities of thousands -- we had nearly said of millions of minds.

    Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 3 George Gilfillan 1845

  • To examine, arrange, methodise, select for national purposes, such miscellaneous treasures would be the work of weeks.

    What Will He Do with It? — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • To examine, arrange, methodise, select for national purposes, such miscellaneous treasures would be the work of weeks.

    What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

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