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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

This Howard felt, and, by his efforts to meliorate their condition, he became the acknowledged prince of philanthropists, and earned an immortal and sacred fame.

From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds

The duty devolved upon me, to seek to meliorate their sad condition, as degraded and emaciated, wandering in ignorance, and wearing away a short existence in one continued succession of hardships in procuring food.

From The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America and Frequent Excursions Among the North-West American Indians, In the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823. by John West

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

Now, our Government has never departed from its purpose and its policy, to meliorate the law of nations, so as to extirpate this business of private war on the ocean.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton

Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition.

From The Land of Thor by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne

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

It has greatly meliorated the condition of the laborious part, that is to say, of the mass of every community, by procuring for them a day of weekly rest.

From Evidence of Christianity by William Paley

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

In this manner soils are constantly changing upon the same spot; sometimes they are meliorated, at other times impoverished.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) by James Hutton

Where shall we trace him next, the migrant man, To try once more his meliorating plan?

From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

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

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

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