It does not give the promise of an indefinite amelioration of the lot of an indefinitely multiplying population.

And their stiff-necked prisoners refused to receive the conciliatory amelioration of their lot that would be offered one day, to be, for no apparent reason, withdrawn the next.

Homoeopathy has introduced one essential amelioration in the practice of physic by amateur females; for its rules are excellent, its physicking comparatively harmlessthe "globule" is the one grain of folly which appears to be necessary to make any good thing acceptable.

It is probable, that, on the whole, there is a gradual amelioration in female costume.

They had it in their instructions, in case they should obtain a seat in the Assembly, to propose, an immediate abolition of the Slave Trade, and an immediate amelioration of the state of slavery also, with a view to its final abolition in fifteen years.

Gradual, indefinite, insensible amelioration of character was not by any means the only or the highest aim of their preaching.

" This is a long digression from the subject of excessive drinking, with which, however, it is not remotely connected; and, both in respect of drunkenness and of gluttony, the habits of English society in the years which immediately succeeded the French Revolution showed a marked amelioration.

It is one of the merciful ameliorations of this present evil world that men are thus mutually entertaining.

His whole life had been one of unceasing labour for that which he believed to be truth and right, and for the practical amelioration of his fellow- creatures.

Let us ask in what consists this pretended amelioration?

We must, therefore, content ourselves with looking for a slow amelioration.

This certainly promises a speedy amelioration of present-day travelling conditions.

During these ten years, the negroes should be prepared for their new condition as well by instruction as by the successive amelioration of their situation; it would be necessary gradually to relax the chain of slavery; and by affording them means to lay up a part of the produce of their labour, inspire them with the desire, and the necessity of possessing something of their own.

Perhaps a nation with more power of application and less of imagination would have schooled itself to the thought that these sordid, obtrusive details were the key to the splendours of the future, and would have devoted itself to the systematic amelioration of the cramped area which it had already secured for its own.

As regards morality, example, like doctrine, may, it is true, promote civil or legal amelioration, but not that inward amendment which is, strictly speaking, the only kind of moral amelioration.

" Certain useful ameliorations in the criminal legislation, amongst others total abolition of torture, completed the sum of edicts.