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. ❋ John Austin Stevens (N/A)
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. ❋ Frederic H. Balfour (N/A)
Religion was mostly superstition, science for the most part sciolism, popular education merely a means of forcing the stupid and repressing the bright, so that all the youth of the rising generation might conform to the same dull, dead level of democratic mediocrity. ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
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. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)
Judge of what is true editorial sciolism when I tell you that Riemann -- who evidently believes in a rigid melodic structure -- has inserted an ❋ James Huneker (1890)
All the peculiarities which ignorance or sciolism used to ridicule or reproach in the ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
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. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
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. ❋ Calvin Thomas (1886)
And the husks of culture are pedantry and sciolism. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
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?" ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)
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 ❋ George Otto Trevelyan (1883)
Flippancy and sciolism may pass muster at the bar, or even in the ❋ Unknown (1879)
Of all these cobwebs spun by the spiders of sciolism, the ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Here there is some genuine ground for the generally baseless and delusive opinion of self - complacent sciolism that he who runs may read Shakespeare. ❋ Algernon Charles Swinburne (1873)
I am sick of sciolism, especially that phase where it crops out in shallow criticism, and every day something recalls the reprimand of ❋ Unknown (1872)
While fearlessly attacking all heresy, whether political, scientific, or ethical, all latitudinarianism in manners and sciolism in letters, he commanded the confidence and esteem of all, and became in great degree the centre around which the savants and literati of the city revolved. ❋ Unknown (1872)
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. ❋ Unknown (1871)
