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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

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.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

There is room enough in this country for us; and if they be our friends, let them meliorate our condition here.

From Thoughts on African Colonization by Garrison, William Lloyd

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 Hoffmann, E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus)

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 Burns, Robert

Such Men there always have been & always will be, till human Nature itself shall be substantially meliorated.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

In them were stated various mitigatory facts in their favor; and the meliorated character of the criminal code at home was also strongly urged.

From Famous Islands and Memorable Voyages by Anonymous

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.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert

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

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

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 Lafayette, Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier, marquis de

Griswold suffered a sudden return to the meliorating humanities.

From The Price by Lynde, Francis

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 Eliot, Charles William

Blount's one meliorating softness during the years of exile had manifested itself in an effort to keep track of Debbleby.

From The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush by Lynde, Francis

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 Fulton, Justin D.

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.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various