"By the term architectonic I mean the art of constructing a system. Without systematic unity, our knowledge cannot bec…"

"The different progress of opulence in different ages and nations, has given occasion to two different systems of poli…"

"Some writers have exclaimed bitterly against systems of divinity, others have exaggerated the utility of them. Perhap…"

"In proportion, therefore, as a system is of vast extent and made for duration, the more it requires to be governed by…"

"The sun, as we have already said, is placed in the middle of our system, as a source of light and heat, to illuminate…"

"M. Fries, who is the founder of the system of quaternary arrangement, and the authority to which the most philosophic…"

"Systems... resemble the similar parts or muscles of a body natural. By systemes; I understand any numbers of men joyn…"

"When a system is brought before the public, professing to be new, and claiming to be considered as peculiarly useful,…"

"According to the common system, before the creation of Matter, there was nothing but God, whose essence is immutable,…"

"Systems seem, like certain worms, to be formed by a kind of generatio aequivoca--by the mere confluence of conception…"