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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

When yellow waves the heavy grain, The threat’ning storm some, strongly, rein; Some teach to meliorate the plain, With tillage-skill; And some instruct the shepherd-train, Blythe o’er the hill.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns

He did this very unwillingly, for it was his desire to do every thing in his power to meliorate the condition of his Protestant friends.

From Henry IV, Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

The whole of his future life, a space exceeding sixty years, was devoted to vindicating the cause, and endeavoring to meliorate the sufferings of the natives.

From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving

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

From Tablets by Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

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

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

We thought that they were capable of receiving and meliorating, and above all of preserving, the accessions of science and literature, as the order of Providence should successively produce them.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

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

She is peculiarly adapted to carry forward enterprises which have to do with meliorating the condition of society.

From True Woman, The A Series of Discourses by Justin D. Fulton

That period, however, was only eight months distant, and she pleased herself with the intention of meliorating her plan in the meantime, and preparing to put it in practice.

From Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney