| 单词 | melioration |
| 例句 | The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z While disappointments and misfortunes are often the origin of insanity, a sudden melioration in circumstances, and unexpected pleasing intelligence have been also known to derange the intellects. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z But professional reformation or melioration is usually an organic, incremental process. Valuing Amateur Virtues in a Professional Army: Elizabeth Samet 2011-11-22T07:03:48Z But the seeds from a young tree, having itself the tendency to melioration, are more likely to produce improved sorts. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z There are certain meliorations against cruelty, which, if a nation should transgress, probably other nations might feel called upon to suppress. 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 Sir Samuel Romilly and Mr. Peel have acquired lasting and merited reputations in England for meliorations of their criminal code. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z If the consolations of true religion are proffered, they are either spurned with anger, or merely produce an evanescent melioration. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z All is quiet in Holland and Belgium; and all is awaiting the melioration which time and wisdom must bring. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 It is no less an evidence that their condition was in a state of melioration. Dissertation on Slavery With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it, in the State of Virginia To provide the additional acreage needed for crop expansion, large-scale programs of land reclamation and melioration have been executed. Area Handbook for Albania Every age seems to be productive of some great genius peculiarly adapted to the accomplishment of some great design, connected either with the advancement of learning, or the melioration of the moral condition of mankind. The American Quarterly Review No. XVIII, June 1831 (Vol 9) 2011-04-02T02:00:12.460Z He demanded seven hundred pounds for the ground, and to be excused paying anything for the melioration of the rest of his ground that he was to keep. Old and New London Volume I And every where her influence is felt, in the melioration of the public mind, as in the limited circle at the home fire-side. Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 By parliamentary enactments, by colonial arrangements, by appeals to the judgment and feelings of planters, and by various other means, a certain degree of melioration may be secured. Thoughts on African Colonization In this case, also, the air has never failed to be restored; but then it might be suspected that the melioration was produced by the addition of some more wholesome ingredient. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air Whether they do any thing to the Metal, after it is once brought to Fusion, and, if need be, melt it over again, to give it a melioration? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World Surely, then, if the negro is capable of elevation, it is time that some other measures should be devised, than those hitherto adopted, for the melioration of the African race! Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject “No great melioration of the human condition was ever achieved without the concurrent effort of numbers; and no extended and well-directed association of moral influence was ever made in vain.” Select Temperance Tracts Let us have a homily on its beauties! let them picture to us the meliorations of cannibalism! The Right of American Slavery In the melioration of the public service which has been so conspicuously in operation since 1877, Hayes must be rated the pioneer President. Historical Essays We need hardly speak in the language of detestation of this species of obstructiveness, which prevents hundreds of valuable schemes of social melioration from being entered into. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 These beneficial meliorations, though incomplete, were received with gratitude; and the Emperor was thanked for his endeavours to reconcile the interests of individuals with the wants of the public treasury. Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I As the two great causes of the melioration in the lot of the slaves since the establishment of our Independence, I should set down: 1. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 Prior to the agitation of this subject of abolition, there was a progressive melioration in the condition of the slaves—schools of instruction were opened by humane and religious persons. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 If species be permanent—if no education or training can educe new kinds—if the higher classes of animals are not the results of meliorations of the lower—whence did they come? 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 Other things, equally if not more contributive to human melioration, are less distinctly in expectation. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 429 Volume 17, New Series, March 20, 1852 The cause of social melioration needs a union of hearts and hands. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 May every sun that shines on your green island see the annihilation of an abuse, and the birth of an embryon of melioration! Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer They shared in the general melioration of the age. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 It must be shown that it is right, though imperfect,—that it is not only by possibility susceptible of improvement, but that it contains in it a principle tending to its melioration. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) The great melioration of human society which modern times exhibit, is mainly due to the incomplete substitution of the system of voluntary labor for the one of servile labor, which has already taken place. American Eloquence, Volume 3 Studies In American Political History (1897) The friend of the people, it tends to free schools, a free press, a free government, the abolition of slavery, war, vice, and the melioration of society. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology In respect to the instruction and melioration of the situation of the common people, we find as yet no attention whatever paid to these important subjects. Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations "The condition of mankind is in a state of melioration, as far as misery arises from ignorance, for as the world grows older it must grow wiser, if wisdom arises from experience." Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever It is not mutual in effect, for it does not provide for a melioration of our obligations in internal differences now prevailing in, or which may hereafter arise in, Great Britain. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy In my observations upon slavery as it has existed in this country, and as it now exists, I have expressed no opinion of the mode of its extinguishment or melioration. The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster With an Essay on Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style I consider the absolute and unconditional interdiction of this article among these people as the first and great step in their melioration. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 1: Andrew Jackson (Second Term) Do not let the dying die: hold them back to this world, until you have charged their ear and heart with this message to other spiritual societies, announcing the melioration of our planet. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Their favors will be most gratefully remembered, and I shall feel myself under additional obligations to labor for the melioration of the condition of the poor and suffering slave. Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West Incapacity of melioration is the only mortal distemper. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860 But a memorable melioration of the state of man will carry some degree of conviction to the hearts of all. Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the Author In the one, melioration and progress are the general topics of inquiry; in the other, it seems as if the community only aspired to repose in the enjoyment of the advantages which it has acquired. American Institutions and Their Influence That day, at dinner, I discovered that Grace's winter in town had led to a sensible melioration of the domestic economy; most especially as related to the table. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale He saw and corresponded frequently with the general, and often discused with him his own private situation, and the effect that various meliorations in the army might produce. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette But it is also true, that the noblest efforts for human melioration have come out of it,—have been based upon it. The American Union Speaker It looks to the melioration of the condition of man. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams When, on the contrary, the people is invested with the supreme authority, the perpetual sense of their own miseries impels the rulers of society to seek for perpetual meliorations. American Institutions and Their Influence Although an increase of numbers does not necessarily infer an increase of high civilization, it reasonably leads to the expectation of great melioration in the commoner comforts. Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale But the change in the wind, and the consequent melioration of the temperature, probably alone saved the whole of the Oyster Pond crew from experiencing the dire fate of that of the Vineyard craft. The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers You might perhaps say "melioration," but "improvement" is the proper word.' Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 At the same time I avowed my conviction, that national education and a concurring spread of the Gospel were the indispensable condition of any true political melioration. Biographia Literaria New meliorations are daily pointed out in the property which he holds in common with others, and this gives him the desire of improving that property which is more peculiarly his own. American Institutions and Their Influence Among the pleasant, we esteem a final and agreeable melioration of the climate, which regained most of its ancient character, and a rapid and distinct elongation of our caudtz, by a sudden acquisition of wisdom. The Monikins He demanded 700l. for the ground, and to be excused paying any thing for the melioration of the rest of his ground that he was to keep. The Diary of Samuel Pepys "Labouring poor," on the puling jargon respecting the. —on the canting phraseology of. —on the melioration of their condition. Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke Many of the American sleighs are elegant though the use of this mode of conveyance is much lessened with the melioration of the climate consequent to the clearing of the forests. The Pioneers In America certain meliorations are undertaken with much more zeal and activity than elsewhere; in Europe the same ends are promoted by much less social effort, more continuously applied. American Institutions and Their Influence I should like to think this melioration came through our sense of justice, but I cannot claim that it did. And Even Now Whoever has introduced these simple forms of religions among these poor savages, has evidently understood their characters and capacities, and effected a great melioration of their manners. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West This spirit of melioration is constantly alive in the American republics, without compromising their tranquillity; the ambition of power yields to the less refined and less dangerous love of comfort. American Institutions and Their Influence In these small communities, which are never agitated by the desire of aggrandizement or the cares of self-defence, all public authority and private energy is employed in internal melioration. American Institutions and Their Influence The present constitution of the Union was formed at a later period than those of the majority of the states, and it may have derived some melioration from past experience. American Institutions and Their Influence Population does not increase, and the thinly-scattered inhabitants are too much absorbed in the cares of self-defence even to attempt any melioration of their condition. American Institutions and Their Influence The idea of novelty is there indissolubly connected with the idea of melioration. American Institutions and Their Influence |
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