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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

The Skipper did his best to meliorate the harsh native methods with dumb things.

From The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

That we have greatly improved on the opinions and practices of our ancestors, is quite as certain as that there will be occasion to meliorate the legacy of morals which we shall transmit to posterity.

From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by James Fenimore Cooper

There is room enough in this country for us; and if they be our friends, let them meliorate our condition here.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by William Lloyd Garrison

We pass over the administration of Geary, the third of the Kansas Governors,—a period in which the ravages of the marauders were continued, but under meliorated circumstances.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 by Various

Tupia had much meliorated the root of the coccos, by giving them a long dressing in his country oven, but they were so small that we did not think them an object for the ship.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

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

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

In them were stated various mitigatory facts in their favor; and the meliorated character of the criminal code at home was also strongly urged.

From Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages by Anonymous

The love of power was his ruling passion;—with him no gentle or generous sentiment meliorated the harshness of authority, or directed it to acts of beneficence.

From A Sicilian Romance by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Yet the pious admonitions of her father, and the example of her cousin, assisted by the meliorating influence of time, had a gradual though slow effect, in changing grief into meek resignation.

From The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel by Jane West

Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.

From The Price by Francis Lynde

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

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

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