Osiander, lauded by modern historians as the only real "systematizer" among the Lutherans of the first generation, was a man as proud, overbearing, and passionate as he was gifted, keen, sagacious, learned, eloquent, and energetic. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church] Reference
But our Smithsonian systematizer will allow us neither horn of this dilemma. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
Not to mention the Islamic physician al-Razi and the Zoroastrian systematizer Al-Majusi. From Wordnik.com. [Hebrew is the last common ancestor of all languages - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But I am more happy for he says of Sri Aurobindo as “more of a thinker, a philosopher, a systematizer, rather than a mystic.”. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
“One of the Greatest” is a very vague phrase, so we should attempt to mention the three top persons in the three categories of thinker, philosopher, and systematizer. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
Finished off the Kenneth Grant I was going through over lunch: Grant's at his best as a scholar and systematizer, and at his worst when drawing inferences to his own focus. From Wordnik.com. [return to what passes for routine] Reference
Proclus was indeed the systematizer of the doctrine of Plotinus, though he differs from him on certain points, and his influence on later philosophy cannot be overestimated. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
On SF seems to me to be a better book than I remember The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of being I don't have a copy at hand, because Disch's strengths are more those of an epigrammatist than a systematizer, and the short reviews that fill most of this book are a good medium for his talents. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
"She was the systematizer, the better-trained mind.". From Wordnik.com. Reference
Thus he became in fact the systematizer of the dread doctrine of predestination. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
A systematizer would say that the form is such as their intellectual faculties require. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Hence it is said that he is no systematizer, that he is better at tearing down than at building up. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference
A deep thinker and a splendid systematizer, he was invaluable to the denomination in the gathering and reporting of Baptist statistics. From Wordnik.com. [An Outline of Baptist History: A Splendid Reference Work for Busy Workers. A Record of the Struggles and Triumphs of Baptist Pioneers and Builders] Reference
Finally, Holbach, the great systematizer of this movement, takes the affair out of the hands of the Creator and definitively announces that. From Wordnik.com. [The Approach to Philosophy] Reference
"On the whole" -- I fear we shall never escape complicity with that qualification, so dear to your practical man, so repugnant to your systematizer!. From Wordnik.com. [The Varieties of Religious Experience] Reference
And if you descend into the bowels of the various leviathans, why there you will not find distinctions a fiftieth part as available to the systematizer as those external ones already enumerated. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
But he was not only the founder of St. Mary's College, the financier, the architect, and the overseer of the material construction, he was also the systematizer of its curriculum during his rectorship which lasted until 1857. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference
He is a systematizer who, absorbed with himself; and with his eyes stubbornly fixed on his own reverie or his own principle, buries himself deeper in it every day, weaving its consequences off one by one, and always holding fast to the various ends. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Regime] Reference
Eratosthenes, the inventive world-measurer, was succeeded by Strabo, the industrious collator of facts; Aristarchus and Hipparchus, the originators of new astronomical methods, were succeeded by Ptolemy, the perfecter of their methods and the systematizer of their knowledge. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science] Reference
@Rob - Tim is probably the biggest systematizer I ever interviewed. From Wordnik.com. [Nivi] Reference
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