We can't civilize the whole world at once.

But in the midst of his reforms and wise efforts to civilize his people, the war-clouds gathered once more, and he was obliged to put forth all his energies to defend his realm from the incursions of his old enemies.

For my own part, I am of Opinion, Compassion does not only refine and civilize Humane Nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable than what can be met with in such an indolent Happiness, such an Indifference to Mankind as that in which the Stoicks placed their Wisdom.

The plan for civilizing the Indians proved a failure.

Her lord deputy, Sir Anthony Bellingham, writing on this occasion to her highness, says that he "had made good progress in civilizing the barbarous inhabitants of those counties, having reduced their numbers to less than one hundred fighting men.

The humanity of the document is perfectly of a piece with that of the system which would civilize mankind by making merchandize of them.

"I delight in civilizing handsome boys.

This, however, may be said in favour of the czar, that by the many attempts he made to civilize his barbarous subjects, it must be supposed he would have been glad to have imitated this generosity, had it been confident with his safety; but the case had this difference, Charles XII.

And he had partially civilized the country he had subdued, and introduced Roman institutions.

George Whitefield is said to have declared to Oglethorpe when lamenting his failure to exclude slavery from Georgia, that he was making a mistake: the Africans were much better off as slaves than in their native barbarism, and would receive a training that would enable them ultimately to return and civilize the land of their nativity.

Thoreau's "Cry of the Human" echoed in the dark as the chief and I chanted the idealistic desires of the friend of man: We talk of civilizing the Indian, but that is not the name for his improvement.

Mr. Steele took the hint for the particular mode of improving the condition of his slaves, which I am going to describe, from the practice of our Anglo-Saxon ancestors in the days of Villainage, which, he says, was "the most wise and excellent mode of civilizing savage slaves.

They would send free blacks to Liberia to Christianize and civilize the natives, sunk in the lowest abyss of misery and shame.

But every trace of his actions tends to prove, that his first and greatest, objectto which even conquest was secondary, if not subservientwas to civilize his dominions, and to raise mankind in general from that state of dark ignorance into which barbarian invasion had cast the world.

It is also the way of life that the West has been trying to impose upon the entire human family since European empires launched their crusade to westernize, modernize and civilize the planet Earth.

His object was to civilize the East and to do away with human sacrifice.

Of course it had to be kept secret, as the bureaucracy is against any attempt to civilize the peopleagainst education or the dissemination of news.

He did not aim at territorial enlargement so much as at facilities to enrich and civilize his empire.

There is not, perhaps, any harder task than to tame the natural wildness of Wit, and to civilize the Fancy.

The Romans civilized the countrybuilt houses, fortresses and roads.

Agricola, who is considered as one of the greatest characters in history, formed a regular plan for subduing and civilizing the island, and thus rendering the acquisition useful to the conquerors.

It was established as a colony in 1787, for the express purpose of laboring to civilize the Africans.

Tis Poetry has pow'r to civilize Men, worse then stones, more blockish then the Trees, I cannot chuse but thinke (now things so fall) That witt is past its Climactericall; And though the Muses have beene dead and gone I know they'll finde a Resurrection.

In still another tradition, the Deity and his associates are more plainly men of superior intelligence, laboring to civilize savage races; and finally, when they cannot inspire two essential elements of civilization,a taste for labor, and the religious idea,a sudden inundation delivers them from the indocile people.

It was not in the power of any man to civilize semi-barbarians in a single reign; but if he attempted impossibilities he did not live in vain, since he bequeathed some permanent conquests and some great traditions.