231 collocations for elevates

No man, he says, is worth speaking to who has not mastered the poems of an anthology, the perusal of which elevates the mind and purifies it from all corrupt thoughts.

" Isabelle elevated her eyebrows with a look of horror.

In 1818, after his return from Europe, he delivered before this Society the noble Anniversary Discourse in which he commemorates the virtues and labors of some of those illustrious men who, to use his words, "have most largely contributed to raise or support our national institutions, and to form or elevate our national character."

Through the various nations that he visited, the mere echo of his name will be sufficient to awaken that noblest sensibility, which at once softens and elevates the soul.

They did teach many ennobling and lofty truths for the enlightenment of thinkers; but they held out no divine help, nor any hope of completing in a future life the failures of this one; and hence they failed in saving society from a persistent degradation, and in elevating ordinary men to those glorious heights reached by the Christian converts.

I was one of the pupils upon whom her freedom from all the shams and self-deceptions made an impression that elevated my whole standard, mental and moral....

But with what motive?" The Captain of the Port elevated his shoulders, exhibited his palms, and declared "The whole affair from beginning to end is a complete and profound mystery.

" Judge Dolan elevated his feet upon his desk and tilted back his chair before replying.

" In addition to elevating the tone of our intellectual life, however, Mrs. Potts found it necessary to support herself and her son.

"The press is a mighty lever of civilization," continued the mother, with an approving glance at her boy, "and you, Mr. Denney, should feel proud indeed of your sacred mission to instruct and elevate these poor people.

There must be new laws again more akin to the principle of reward than of punishment, of privilege than of privation, and which shall, have a tendency to raise or elevate their condition, so as to fit them by degrees to sustain the rank of free men.

It elevated the Spirit of this excellent young man to decorate his rooms in imitation of a sanctuary.

The contrary comes to pass, if he is in a love opposite to conjugial love; for so far as he is in this opposite love, so far he is natural; and a merely natural man is like a beast as to lusts and appetites, and to their delights; with this difference only, that he has the faculty of elevating his understanding into the light of wisdom, and also of elevating his will into the heat of celestial love.

In the year 1704 lord treasurer Godolphin happened to complain to the lord Hallifax, that the duke of Marlborough's victory at Blenheim, had not been celebrated in verse, in the manner it deserved, and told him, that he would take it kind, if his lordship, who was the patron of the poets, would name a gentleman capable of writing upon so elevated a subject.

It follows as a corollary from this proposition, that a representation should be as real as possible, for its tendency will be inevitably to elevate national morals.

And so terrified were the Indians by this example that they never durst in future elevate their thoughts to independence.

The manifesto says that 'non-co-operation is deprecated by the religious tenets and traditions of our motherland, nay, of all the religions that have saved and elevated the human race.'

When she was compelled by the exigencies of the case to be present in the kitchen, and therefore absent in the dining-room, she merely elevated her voice to overcome distance, and dropped no stitch in the conversation.

It was not elegance of manners, nor intellectual culture, nor physical beauty which elevated the women of chivalry, but their courage, their fidelity, their sympathy, their devotion to duty,qualities which no civilization ought to obscure, and for the loss of which no refinements of life can make up.

But tell me, how in all creation kin you ever mount up agin, once you settle there?" "Why that's the easiest thing of all," replied the young aviator; "you've watched a wild duck get up many a time, haven't you, Mr. Quackenboss; well, we do just the same, only instead of flapping our wings, we start the engine, and skim along the surface for a little distance, then elevate the planes, and immediately begin to soar upward.

This will show the reader, at once, that if the infant is peculiarly exposed to diseases of the brainand it certainly is sohe ought to remain in a horizontal posture as little as possible, except during sleep; and that even then it is desirable to make his bed in such a manner as to elevate the head and shoulders as much as we can without compressing the lungs, or obstructing the circulation in the neck.

As the Quakers believed in the freedom of the will, human brotherhood, and equality before God, they did not, like the Puritans, find difficulties in solving the problem of elevating the Negroes.

I devote myself to such works as encroach not on the anti-social passionsin poetry, to elevate the imagination and set the affections in right tune by the beauty of the inanimate impregnated as with a living soul by the presence of lifein prose to the seeking with patience and a slow, very slow mind, 'Quid sumus, et quidnam victuri gignimus,'what our faculties are and what they are capable of becoming."

" "Still, a good cause may elevate even bodies of men," said Maud, thoughtfully.

But at his retort the lady merely elevated her rather fine brows and remarked, "Really, Mr. Denney, you speak much as you writeyou must not let me forget to give you that little book I spoke of.

231 collocations for  elevates