Here above all was silence from all our great orator took delight in, from formidable men, from moral indignation, from the 'sciolist' who 'is never sad,' from all in modern life that would destroy the arts; and here, to take a thought from another playwright of our school, he could love Time as only women and great artists do and need never sell it. ❋ Unknown (1897)
Notwithstanding, for my money you write both extremely well and at an appropriately level for your subject matter, at a good level for the sciolist (me, your reader, not you). ❋ Unknown (2007)
And yet I lately met a sciolist who pompously announced to me this philological absurdity as a discovery of his own. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The hero of the epic is at once sciolist and simpleton, ‘knowing many things, but knowing them all badly’. ❋ Unknown (2007)
We do not read of the Son of God that He sowed or ploughed, wove or digged; nor did any other of the mechanic arts befit the divine wisdom incarnate except to trace letters in writing, that every gentleman and sciolist may know that fingers are given by God to men for the task of writing rather than for war. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The third is the hygienic sciolist, who drinks on principle poor “Gladstone” and thin French wines, cheap and nasty; and the survivor is the man who enjoys a quantum suff. of humming Scotch and Burton ales, sherry, Madeira, and port, with a modicum of cognac. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The smooth sciolist Stellato rallied his weak wits and uttered a cry of wonder at such flagitious heresy. ❋ Various (N/A)
The hero of the epic is at once sciolist and simpleton, 'knowing many things, but knowing them all badly'. ❋ Hesiod (N/A)
It is a well-attested fact, especially since the sacred precincts of established truth have been raided by every puerile pedant and sciolist who can handle a pen, that any absurdity whatever, so long as it is clad "in the lion's skin" and no matter how loudly it brays, has some fatal claim upon the rambling credulity of the multitude. ❋ [pseud.] Vera (N/A)
By others, it is dismissed very lightly, as the ambitious, or, rather, pretentious, effort of a superficial man, a showy mere sciolist. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)
There is the sciolist variety, who knows it all, or imagines that he does, and who asks for proof of impossible facts, with an assurance born of the profoundest ignorance. ❋ Ainsworth Rand Spofford (N/A)
Never was so brilliant a lecture-room as his evening banqueting-hall; highly connected students from Rome mixed with the sharp-witted provincial of Greece or Asia Minor; and the flippant sciolist, and the nondescript visitor, half philosopher, half tramp, met with a reception, courteous always, but suitable to his deserts. ❋ Various (N/A)
How often do we hear the sciolist condemned in these words: ❋ Henry Coppee (N/A)
If he were noticed, it was only to be traduced as a sciolist, (imperitus dialecticæ et aliarum bonarum artium, says Dr. Reynolds,) and to be exposed for imagined lapses in scholarship in an age when for a writer not to be a scholar, was like ❋ Thomas Potts (N/A)
O, divine science (sciolist), we bless thy name; thou hast delivered us from the terrors of dogmatic fear! ❋ Various (N/A)
And yet, though he apparently made it his business to know something of every art, he was no sciolist, and, if he went far afield, it was only in order to improve himself in his own particular branch. ❋ John Dover Wilson (1925)
It was opportune; for literature at that particular time had reached a point where the sciolist was in full possession, and the dead husks of learning were being palmed off for the living thoughts of living men. ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)
It covers twenty-one pages, very closely written, and I will give a few extracts to show what sort of preparation this sciolist thought necessary for his ecclesiastical pamphlet. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)
Freeman did at last infect academic coteries with the idea that Froude was a superficial sciolist. ❋ Paul, Herbert (1905)