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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

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

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

The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born.

From The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse by Various

We then fled to the country, and there only time could meliorate the deep-consuming grief by which he had become wholly possessed.

From The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

The strength of the stalk is also diffused by it through the leaves, and the whole mass becomes equally meliorated.

From Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion by Henry James Meller

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

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age.

From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

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

He began to treat for peace, and to harmonize discordant spirits, so that affairs might be meliorated, by reason of what the Spaniards requested.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

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

Old cheese has a remarkable effect in meliorating the apple when eaten; probably from the volatile alkali or ammonia of the cheese neutralizing its acid.

From The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Doubtless the most miserable of men, under the most oppressive government in the world, if allowed the ballot, would use it, if they could see any chance of thereby meliorating their condition.

From No Treason, Vol. VI. The Constitution of No Authority by Lysander Spooner

Agriculture appeared to me to be in a highly improved state: there are artificial grasses and meliorating crops.

From A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium by Richard Boyle Bernard

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