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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

It is no less the characteristic of real friendship to endeavour to meliorate than to preserve from sufferings.

From A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation by Hosea Ballou

Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice.

From Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders by John Lord

Let us never relax in our exertions to promote the emancipation, and meliorate the condition of slaves, till every human being in these United States shall equally enjoy, all the blessings of our free Institutions.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various

He said it was too late to plant maize, and therefore he should sow turnips, which would help to meliorate and prepare it for next year.

From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Watkin Tench

Thus I find my grandfather writing, in a report on the North Esk Bridge: “A less waterway might have sufficed, but the valleys may come to be meliorated by drainage.”

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson

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

In like manner, are the woods meliorated and made ours.

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

The rice grounds are meliorated merely by letting water into them; but for the other grains, where the soil requires it, they use dung, night-soil, ashes, and the like.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

You are right in thinking that this first impulse of 1789, has, notwithstanding our misfortunes, greatly meliorated the situation of the French people.

From Memoirs of General Lafayette : with an Account of His Visit to America and His Reception By the People of the United States; From His Arrival, August 15th, to the Celebration at Yorktown, October 19th, 1824. by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

I was never duly sensible, till your writings made me so, of the transcendent beauty and sublimity of Christian morals; nor did I submit my heart and temper to their chastening and meliorating influences.

From The Friendships of Women by William Rounseville Alger

Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.

From The Price by Francis Lynde

I trust that a brighter future is to come, not from the desolation, but from gradual, meliorating changes of the present.

From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot

Advancing years presented a softening, meliorating, ripening influence.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

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