How often do we hear the sciolist condemned in these words. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
O, divine science (sciolist), we bless thy name; thou hast delivered us from the terrors of dogmatic fear!. From Wordnik.com. [The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880] Reference
The hero of the epic is at once sciolist and simpleton, ‘knowing many things, but knowing them all badly’. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
And yet I lately met a sciolist who pompously announced to me this philological absurdity as a discovery of his own. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
By others, it is dismissed very lightly, as the ambitious, or, rather, pretentious, effort of a superficial man, a showy mere sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries] Reference
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). From Wordnik.com. [Pat Yourselves on the Back] Reference
None but a sciolist will depreciate such a task; and none but. From Wordnik.com. [Some Facts of Religion and of Life: Sermons Preached before Her Majesty the Queen in Scotland, 1866-76.] Reference
If he were a sciolist or a wrong-headed fanatic, this would be a serious evil. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Early Victorian Literature] Reference
I mean no disrespect in styling Mr. Bishop a sciolist (or undeveloped scientist). From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, March 1887 Volume 1, Number 2] Reference
Cortius includes these words in brackets, regarding them as the insertion of some sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War] Reference
You had better ask Mr. Bradlaugh, or some eminent popular sciolist Huxley or Spencer would do. From Wordnik.com. ['That Very Mab'] Reference
I mean that Froude was the exact opposite of the sciolist and was even other than the student. From Wordnik.com. [Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc] Reference
And at present it behoved him to bear in mind that he was conversing with no half-bred sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [Born in Exile] Reference
Freeman did at last infect academic coteries with the idea that Froude was a superficial sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude]
He is no sciolist himself, and he does not believe in merely superficial attainments in his pupils. From Wordnik.com. [Western Worthies A Gallery of Biographical and Critical Sketches of West of Scotland Celebrities] Reference
It is full of gaps about matters that any sciolist or philosopher or theologian would have filled up for it. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI] Reference
Was he a sciolist, was he a pretender, or did he really judge of it from a station of heaven-inspired knowledge?. From Wordnik.com. [The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2] Reference
Synesius 'theology, some sciolist has made additions contrary to the context, which additions I follow the learned editors in rejecting. From Wordnik.com. [Songs and Hymns of the Earliest Greek Christian Poets] Reference
None but a sciolist will depreciate such a task; and none but a sceptic will doubt the value of the conclusions which may be thus reached. From Wordnik.com. [Religion and Theology: A Sermon for the Times Preached in the Parish Church of crathie, 5th September and in the College Church, St Andrews] Reference
But by dint of noisy assertion, and perpetual repetition, Freeman did at last infect academic coteries with the idea that Froude was a superficial sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
He speaks of an unlimited freedom of submarine navigation and navigation of the air which would not have appeared possible to any but the most superficial sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
A sciolist, as Burnouf observes, would hardly have thought of inserting. From Wordnik.com. [Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War] Reference
It is, in short, a contrivance, to make a reputation for a sciolist, and to govern mankind on the principles of a reverie. ". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Glass, "would have dispensed him at once from any attempt at emendation; but this is ever and always the way of the sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Elizabethan Literature] Reference
Look, you called me a sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [AP Poll: Bush Is Both the Biggest "Hero" and "Villain"] Reference
"Well, my dear child," said the Professor, who was beginning to feel that it was time to go back to his unfinished ignoramus, tyro, or sciolist; "I tell you what I shall do. From Wordnik.com. [Somehow Good] Reference
Darwin was a pretentious sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Froude] Reference
But the sciolist taps you on the arm. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
The stag was better than the sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida] Reference
Now she was a pedant; and then a sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [St. Elmo] Reference
Some sciolist, he remarks, may say that St. Peter. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Here is a word of the day for you: sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [East Side Boxing] Reference
A sciolist for any age. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference
3. sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference
18-karat sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [Coffee and Repartee] Reference
"It is a shallow trick of the sciolist. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference
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