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“I consider such easy vehicles of knowledge, more happily calculated than any other, to preserve the liberty, stimulate the industry and meliorate the morals of an enlightened and free People.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021

To this he added personal efforts to meliorate their condition, which resulted in promises from Turkish officials and the Patriarch of better treatment, promises that were by no means fulfilled.

From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson

To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man.

From Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete by William Hogan

There was nothing more than a pleasing variety to recreate and instruct the mind, to enrich the imagination, and to meliorate the heart.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

It is not amended institutions, it is not improved education, it is not another selection of individuals for union, that can meliorate the said result, but the basis of the union must be changed.

From Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. by Margaret Fuller

So that Nature hereby is only advanced and meliorated, and the Light thereof, or human Reason, by being kept within its due bounds, and regulated by a superior Light, is only made useful.

From Dialogues on the Supersensual Life by Jakob Böhme

The potatoes, which had first been brought from the Cape of Good Hope, were greatly meliorated by change of soil; and, with proper cultivation, would be superior to those produced in most other countries.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

That something the manure of birds, meliorated and altered by time, had supplied, and lo! the glorious results were before his eyes.

From The Crater by James Fenimore Cooper

Now this Draconian code has been so meliorated and softened by the diffusion of mercy and humanity as to take life for life only; is pleading powerfully for the abolition of the death-penalty altogether.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

Their opposition will only multiply its millions of human victims; their own satellites will catch it, and the condition of man through the civilized world, will be finally and greatly meliorated.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph

But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object.

From Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods by Andrew Kippis

And many a thousand summers My apples ripened well, And light from meliorating stars With firmer glory fell.

From May-Day and Other Pieces by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mr. Buxton's public life was devoted to meliorating the condition of the unfortunate classes of society.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

Beginning by formulating plans for meliorating the condition of the slaves on his plantation in French Guiana, his philanthropic thoughts soon turned homeward.

From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Francis Lynde