You never feel sure how you have them; you can't treat with them as you can with a downright, sensible, methodical business-man.
There will be a thirteenth tribe, and then a fresh series of tribes, for William is very methodical in all that he does!
She was very methodical and economical, +and looked after all her household duties most carefully, and no doubt she thought that she should lower herself in my eyes, were she to confess that slight piece of feminine extravagance.
His training in German universities developed a thoroughness, a methodical recording of every thing, which is apt to cost him dearly.
You will never see Budapesth again, either," was the menacing continuation of the criminologist's methodical speech.
His personal appearance was, like that of his brother, imposing, and his discoursing, if a little heavy in manner at times, always methodical and sound.
His preaching was usually extemporaneous, not always very methodical in plan, but usually successful, especially in making his subject plain.
There was nothing tidy or methodical in the arrangement of his ship's stores, so he spent a full minute, feeling about, before his hand came in contact with the oil-can.
Sam studied her ankles, then resumed the methodical filling of his pipe.
Their skirts were examined, and there were found boxes of cigars, packets of tobacco, and bottles of gin, all hooked in methodical order to an ingenious arrangement connected with the skirt.
Their homes were always neat and clean, and the children were disciplined into a rigid, methodical life.
A collection in which the texts are simply reproduced in their chronological order is obviously inconvenient; towards 550, Johannes Scholasticus, patriarch of Constantinople, drew up a methodical classification of them under fifty heads.
In fine, the error of empiricism has been to regard the causal bond as merely an intellectual construction of speculative thought and the product of a more or less methodical generalization.
When a methodical analysis is made of the doctrines of any Church whatsoever, sooner or later we come upon those concerning private cults.
So methodical a division could never have been made without an agreement, tacit or planned, in which the whole tribe participated.
Men have been obliged to make for themselves a notion of what religion is, long before the science of religions started its methodical comparisons.
In addition to these a methodical examination may put in evidence other facts that may be derived from diverse influences that leave characteristic traces.
Anatomists know, moreover, that salient differences in any collection of crania preventmethodical enumeration and constitute the stumbling-block of ethnic craniology.
To begin with, doubt is either methodical or real.
It is possible to conceive of a perfectly methodical treatment of a science which at the same time shall be generally comprehensible if it strives to attain the transparency of real beauty.
But in a narrower sense we mean by practical education the methodical development of the Will.
The result of the practice in virtue, or, as it is commonly expressed, of the individual actualization of freedom, is the methodical determinateness of the individual will as Character.
The excuse for this sufficiently humiliating distrust was the necessity of my acquiring methodical and business-like habits.
Benassis to be a methodical or practical man, there were unmistakable indications of absolute indifference as to his material concerns in the state of the gates of his house.
Berthier, with his admirably lucid mind, great physique, methodical powers and ambition, would have made his name in any profession.
Methodical and industrious, with the lessons of handling and equipping irregulars which he had had in America, he made his battalion a pattern for the others, and was complimented by Lafayette on the admirable condition of his command.
His methodicalmind hated the idea of disorder; administration came to him as Nature's gift.
The methodical tactics which he had learned in the war of the Palatinate did not save him from the disgrace of being surprised and baffled by such a captain as Rupert, who could claim no higher fame than that of an enterprising partisan.
This first constitution of the New World was simple in its terms, comprehensive in its policy, methodical in its arrangement, beautiful in its adaptation of parts to a whole, of means to an end.
The over-scrupulous and methodical individual who can neither sleep nor take a vacation until all the affairs of his life are arranged must remind himself that this happy consummation will not be attained in his lifetime.
My original design was, as I have already explained, to publish a methodical and exact catalogue of this library, upon the plan which has been laid down, as I am informed, by several men of the first rank among the learned.
Metellus, a methodical and somewhat clumsy tactician, was in despair as to this opponent, who obstinately declined a decisive battle, but cut off his supplies and communications and constantly hovered round him on all sides.
Then with a methodical desperation he began to wrench and work at his bonds.
He possessed a methodical mind, a rather intolerant disposition, thick glasses, a very cold and precise manner, extreme personal neatness, and abysmal ignorance of the West.
He kept methodical accounts of his expenses down to the most trivial items, and regularly submitted them to his family.
The other papers, of which we made methodical examination, were mysterious and puzzling.
An ordered and methodicaltide was dragging back these men who wanted to fight, yet had to retreat.
His methodical instincts were gratified by the grave and confident look of the general of the Republic.
