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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

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