The marvelous restoration of its prosperity by the genius of Colbert, the ruin caused by the malign sciolism of Law, are familiar to all students of political economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference

But I've no doubt whatever, myself, that a great deal of this ancient lore, which we have been accustomed to regard as so much sciolism, not to say pure nonsense, had a germ of truth in it, and that truth I believe we are gradually beginning to re-discover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Austin and His Friends] Reference

And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8] Reference

Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Wrong Paradise] Reference

Flippancy and sciolism may pass muster at the bar, or even in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities] Reference

Let's start by considering some general rules for avoiding sciolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

All the peculiarities which ignorance or sciolism used to ridicule or reproach in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference

Such an age of sciolism and scholasticism may possibly once more get the better of the literary world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phaedrus] Reference

I am sick of sciolism, especially that phase where it crops out in shallow criticism, and every day something recalls the reprimand of.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo] Reference

Some critics of state-mandated testing say it is an exercise in sciolism that doesn't really demonstrate a student's grasp of the material studied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference

I am sick of sciolism, especially that phase where it crops out in shallow criticism, and every day something recalls the reprimand of Apelles to the shoemaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo. A Novel.] Reference

He constantly ridiculed the austerities, pedantry, priggishness and sciolism of the old-time Churchmen, and when a new question came up, he asked, "What good is there in it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers] Reference

It seemed to stand out in such sharp contrast with our latter-day sciolism and half-believed creeds, and to be flung into higher relief by the dark shadow of John Maltravers's ruined life.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Stradivarius] Reference

And yet, even worse than this languorous inanition is the active policy of those who despise everything contemporary or native, and substitute sciolism for catholicity, contempt for analysis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference

But the way in which these things are merged in and spoilt by a torrent of silliness, sciolism, and sheer nonsense is, even after one has known the book for forty years and more, still astounding.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

That very sciolism brought him into sympathy with Dr. Carpenter and other distinguished gentlemen who would not have listened to him if he had come in any nobler manner, and enabled him to open their eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2] Reference

The lady was typical of a class, and her mode of getting ready her table talk is the same which produces confusion, mean sciolism, and mental poverty among too many of those who set up as arbiters of taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Side Lights] Reference

They might be called lyrics of culture, since they regard the perfection of the individual, -- the equipoise of heart and head, steadfast seriousness as opposed to showy sciolism, the preservation of hope and faith, -- as a noble object of emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller] Reference

The Benthamite training may have stimulated the finer intellects, (and they were not few,) which came within its influence; but it is impossible to conceive anything more dreary than must have been the condition of a shallow mind, with a native predisposition to sciolism, after its owner had joined a society.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

It is enough for me to point out to yourself that there are certain social fitnesses and proprieties which should hinder a somewhat near relative of mine from becoming any wise conspicuous in this vicinity in a status not only much beneath my own, but associated at best with the sciolism of literary or political adventurers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

It is enough for me to point out to yourself that there are certain social fitnesses and proprieties which should hinder a somewhat near relative of mile from becoming any wise conspicuous in this vicinity in a status not only much beneath my own, but associated at best with the sciolism of literary or political adventurers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)] Reference

The sciolism of popular phrenology, scantily supplied with anatomical knowledge, and but little better supplied with clear psychic conceptions, is incapable of commending the science to the esteem of critical observers, and of course incapable of sustaining its reputation against the overwhelming opposition of medical colleges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1] Reference

Another important function for a philanthropic and progressive journal is to assist in the diffusion of liberal literature, and to keep an eye upon the prolific press of to-day, for the benefit of its readers, calling their attention to the meritorious works, which are often neglected, and warning against pretentious folly and sciolism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Buchanan's Journal of Man, February 1887 Volume 1, Number 1] Reference

I plead guilty to the charge of holding the belief that unskilled omniscience interferes very materially with skilled sciolism in skilled sciolism's efforts to make a living. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffee and Repartee] Reference

"I thought they were going to land you that time," said the genial gentleman who occasionally imbibed, later; "but when I heard you use the word 'sciolism,' I knew you were all right.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coffee and Repartee] Reference

In short, it may be charged against the view of literature which is taken in calling it an Art, that, instead of making truth and insight the author’s aim, it favors sciolism and a fantastic and affected style.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Literature] Reference

They might be called lyrics of culture, since they regard the perfection of the individual, ” the equipoise of heart and head, steadfast seriousness as opposed to showy sciolism, the preservation of hope and faith, ” as a noble object of emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller]

"Even under the direful yoke of the necessity of daily poisoning by narcotics, it is somewhat less horrible through the knowledge that it was not from any craving for pleasurable animal excitement, but from pain, delusion, error, of the worst ignorance, medical sciolism, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opium Habit] Reference

When was sciolism ever dissociated from laxity?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlemarch] Reference

"sciolism.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethical Technology] Reference

It’s contemporary sciolism at its worst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Time to Play This Video Again I Guess] Reference

I almost envied him; for the purity and excellence of his own nature, never broken in upon by those evil looks, (or features, which are looks become fixtures), with which low cunning, habitual cupidity, presumptuous sciolism, and heart-hardening vanity, coarsen the human face, -- it is the mere stamp, the undisturbed 'ectypon' of his own soul!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference

Even under the direful yoke of the necessity of daily poisoning by narcotics it is somewhat less horrible, through the knowledge that it was not from any craving for pleasurable animal excitement, but from pain, delusion, error, of the worst ignorance, medical sciolism, and when (alas! too late the plea of error was removed from my eyes,) from terror and utter perplexity and infirmity; -- sinful infirmity, indeed, but yet not a wilful sinfulness that I brought my neck under it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference