| 单词 | meliorate |
| 例句 | “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.” Local journalism bill advances 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z 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. Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection 2012-04-06T02:00:31.240Z Mr. Buxton's public life was devoted to meliorating the condition of the unfortunate classes of society. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Will this rapid intellectual progress tend ultimately to meliorate the condition of mankind? Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z He continued that the Russians were the first Christians, and he felt much disposed to send missionaries among the Americans to meliorate their condition. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, 7th ed. Vol. 2 of 2 2011-11-11T03:00:31.270Z Advancing years presented a softening, meliorating, ripening influence. 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. 2011-10-13T02:00:37.230Z To meliorate the condition of this almost countless multitude of our fellow-creatures, is among the first duties of every good man. Auricular Confession and Popish Nunneries Volumes I. and II., Complete 2011-10-12T02:00:45.373Z As with everything else, so it is with fruits, some of which were naturally indifferent or even inedible, until subjected to the meliorating influences of high culture, of selection, and of improvement. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z The Skipper did his best to meliorate the harsh native methods with dumb things. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z The strength of the stalk is also diffused by it through the leaves, and the whole mass becomes equally meliorated. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z In like manner, are the woods meliorated and made ours. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z We then fled to the country, and there only time could meliorate the deep-consuming grief by which he had become wholly possessed. The Devil's Elixir Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-23T02:00:27.103Z Though meliorated much since it first gave birth to man, it is not now fitted to nurture beings as refined as it will be centuries hence. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z 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. 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 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z This reformation is still in progress, and the condition of the plantation slave is now meliorated, so far as policy will admit, while they remain in their present relation. The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 2011-02-05T03:00:13.817Z 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. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z 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. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z So that Nature hereby is only advanced and meliorated, and the Light thereof, or human Reason, by being kept within its due bounds, and regulated by a superior Light, is only made useful. Dialogues on the Supersensual Life His father was much pleased to see his son endeavour to make himself agreeable in ladies’ society; he thought it augured a good sign, and would be conducive to meliorate and refine his manners. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact The face of the planet cools and dries, the races meliorate, and man is born. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse They refine the mind, they elevate views, they meliorate passions and keep alive affections. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 5 November 1848 But to undertake expeditions with a design of civilizing the world, and meliorating its condition, is a noble object. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z I have no interest distinct from that which has a tendency to meliorate the situation of mankind. The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 It meliorates the morals and disposition, and promotes present and future felicity. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact There is room enough in this country for us; and if they be our friends, let them meliorate our condition here. Thoughts on African Colonization 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.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) I have been told by my mother that he found the navy very intolerable;—the mutiny at the Nore had not yet meliorated the service to the common sailor. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. 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. Henry IV, Makers of History His father was much pleased to see his son endeavour to make himself agreeable in ladies’ society; he thought it augured a good sign, and would be conducive to meliorate and refine his manners. Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact Their advance in the "habits and arts of civilization." rather encouraged perseverance in the laudable exertions still farther to meliorate their condition. Opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States, at January Term, 1832, Delivered by Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in the Case of Samuel A. Worcester, Plaintiff in Error, versus the State of Georgia With a Statement of the Case, Extracted from the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States At this time the Government was attempting to adopt a middle course between the abolitionists and the planters by passing what were called 'meliorating Acts,' Acts, that is, for improving the treatment of the slaves. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Beginning by formulating plans for meliorating the condition of the slaves on his plantation in French Guiana, his philanthropic thoughts soon turned homeward. 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 Among the better classes conventionality has, doubtless, somewhat meliorated their condition. The Land of Thor In them were stated various mitigatory facts in their favor; and the meliorated character of the criminal code at home was also strongly urged. Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages Sullen, she meditates on Deaths to come, And meliorates the Poison in her Womb. h Should hapless Clarion thither take his Flight, He falls her Prey, mindful of ancient Spite. Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast 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. 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. Perhaps next in importance in meliorating the condition of the slaves, is the adoption of regulations for their religious instruction, and the education of their children. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 I trust that a brighter future is to come, not from the desolation, but from gradual, meliorating changes of the present. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Kindness never fails to soften and meliorate his feelings, and harshness, injury, and contempt to harden and blunt them. The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians 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. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. 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. The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel 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. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 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. The Friendships of Women Among the various improvements which struggling humanity has gradually engrafted on the belligerent code, none have contributed more to diminish the calamities of war, than those which meliorate the condition of prisoners. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States But it is the author's law and the author's order that are in dispute—his transmutation of species, the higher classes emerging from and partly annihilating the lower, under meliorated conditions of being. An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Rather let us say that that is very natural which nature permits us to meliorate in her handiwork. The Training of a Public Speaker It was a meliorating thought, and while it held I could be less revengeful. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady He, however, held it to be the duty of slave owners to employ all means not incompatible with the safety of both master and slave to meliorate slavery even to extermination. General Scott 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. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 He began to treat for peace, and to harmonize discordant spirits, so that affairs might be meliorated, by reason of what the Spaniards requested. 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. And many a thousand summers My apples ripened well, And light from meliorating stars With firmer glory fell. May-Day and Other Pieces These are the men of active wisdom, who lead armies to victory, and kingdoms to prosperity; or discover and improve the sciences, which meliorate and adorn the condition of humanity. Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life There was nothing more than a pleasing variety to recreate and instruct the mind, to enrich the imagination, and to meliorate the heart. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 (of 12) 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. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) 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. Evidence of Christianity 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. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 In this manner soils are constantly changing upon the same spot; sometimes they are meliorated, at other times impoverished. Theory of the Earth, Volume 2 (of 4) Agriculture appeared to me to be in a highly improved state: there are artificial grasses and meliorating crops. A tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany and Belgium Is it true that the lapse of time, the cessation of conflicting interests, the woful experience of the evils resulting from party rage, have had no sort of influence gradually to meliorate their minds? The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) 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. 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 She is peculiarly adapted to carry forward enterprises which have to do with meliorating the condition of society. True Woman, The A Series of Discourses 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. The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 That something the manure of birds, meliorated and altered by time, had supplied, and lo! the glorious results were before his eyes. The Crater One of his meliorating comforts had been the thought that however bitter his own disappointment was, Elinor at least was happy. The Grafters Every attempt to meliorate his manners and Indian notions, has failed. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers It has been thought by many that frosts meliorate the ground, and that they are in general salubrious to mankind. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation The human heart seems to be meliorated and softened by age. Anna St. Ives Nevertheless, man's ever active ingenuity constantly increases the number of meliorated contrivances. By Water to the Columbian Exposition The war concluded, his attention was directed to Italy, and he sought to meliorate the condition of that country; but Austria would not hear even of the discussion of Italian affairs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 Some years ago several pious individuals undertook to meliorate the condition of the prisons. American Institutions and Their Influence Where shall we trace him next, the migrant man, To try once more his meliorating plan? The Columbiad It is not amended institutions, it is not improved education, it is not another selection of individuals for union, that can meliorate the said result, but the basis of the union must be changed. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. 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. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) It is no less the characteristic of real friendship to endeavour to meliorate than to preserve from sufferings. A Series of Letters in Defence of Divine Revelation These men left their first country to improve their condition; they quit their resting-place to meliorate it still more; fortune awaits them everywhere, but happiness they cannot attain. American Institutions and Their Influence You are right in thinking that this first impulse of 1789, has, notwithstanding our misfortunes, greatly meliorated the situation of the French people. 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. 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. A Sicilian Romance Such men as Gladstone and Bright, who are seeking by wise legislation to remove or meliorate the evils of centuries of injustice. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11 American Founders 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. The Book of Household Management Lords deliver lydeum lectures; ladies patronize ragged schools; committees of duchesses meliorate the condition of needlewomen. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 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. Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 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. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson They must suppress the workings of British philanthropy, seeking to meliorate the condition of the unfortunate West Indian slave. The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 The Romans, therefore, had good reason to soften and meliorate this element, by conveying it a good length of way in open aqueducts. Travels through France and Italy Such Men there always have been & always will be, till human Nature itself shall be substantially meliorated. The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 I do not find that a succession of crops has yet been attempted; surely it would help to meliorate and improve the soil. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson |
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