193 collocations for reformed

That the people are infected with the vice of drunkenness, that they debauch themselves chiefly with spirituous liquors, and that those liquors are in a high degree pernicious, is confessed both by those who oppose the bill, and those who defend it; but with this advantage on the part of those that defend it, that they only propose a probable method of reforming the abuses which they deplore.

Tender, pitying, fearless, full of a desire to reform the world, and of hatred for any form of tyranny, Shelley failed to adjust himself to the customs and laws of his actual surroundings.

Now this rich authentic sourcethis collection of wild, poetic representations of the Day of judgment; of striving against idolatry; of stories from Sacred History; of exhortation to the practice of the cardinal virtues of the Old and New Testament; of precepts to reform the individual, domestic, and tribal life in the spirit of these virtues; of incantations and forms of prayer and a hundred things besidesis not always comprehensible to us.

He reformed the representative system in a manner which has extorted praise even from Lord Clarendon.

The cruel and imbecile Bourbon who reigned there became only more harsh and obstinate, while the other princes of Italy deemed it necessary to reform their institutions and conciliate their people.

" Fan Ch'i, strolling with him over the ground below the place of the rain-dance, said to him, "I venture to ask how to raise the standard of virtue, how to reform dissolute habits, and how to discern what is illusory?" "Ah! a good question indeed!"

FERDINAND GREGOROVIUS Henry III, the son and successor of Conrad, was young, vigorous, and God-fearing; a noble prince called, like Charles and Otto the Great, to restore Rome, to deliver it from tyrants, and to reform the almost annihilated Church.

At the battle of Alma, amidst great disorder, he reformed the line and stood firm with the colours.

He represented to this company the necessity of reforming the state, and of putting the execution of the laws into other hands than those which had hitherto appeared, from repeated experience, so unfit for the charge with which they were intrusted.

It is difficult, without doubt, to restrain a nation from vice; and to reform a nation already corrupted, is still more difficult.

How many inspired hearts even now may be cherishing in secret the idea which shall reform the age, and fulfil at once the longings of every sect and rank?' 'Name it to me, then!'

Having thus obtained Silesia, the king of Prussia returned to his own capital, where he reformed his laws, forbade the torture of criminals, concluded a defensive alliance with England, and applied himself to the augmentation of his army.

They did not meet with much success in their object; but they made the acquaintance of Pastors Gundel and Hagemann, the latter "nearly blind and very grey, but truly green in the feeling sense of religion," and who rejoiced in his heart to find a brother concerned to reform those things which had long laid heavy on his mind.

You seem to be very anxious to reform society?' 'I am.' 'Don't you think you had better begin by reforming yourself?' 'Really, sir,' answered Lancelot, 'I am too old for that worn-out quibble.

We are endeavouring to reform a vice almost universal; a vice which, however destructive, is now no longer reproachful.

We are, however, about to reform the practice of drinking spirits, by making spirits more easy to be procured; we are about to hinder them from being bought, by exempting the vender from all fear of punishment.

SEE Robinson, Frank B. Psychiana, destined to reform spiritual thought.

Then, like Ruskin, he turned to practical questions, and his Friendship's Garland (1871) was intended to satirize and perhaps reform the great middle class of England, whom he called the Philistines.

The ever more numerous adherents of modern thought in Egypt do not generally proceed from the ranks of the Azhar students, nor do they generally care very much in their later life for reforming the methods prevailing there, although they may be inclined to applaud the efforts of the modernists.

Aunt Lavinia has had me arrested; she wants to send me to reform school.

Omar seems to us to have been so many thingsa believing Moslem, a pantheistic Mystic, an exact scientist (for he reformed the Persian calendar).

When did marriage ever reform a bad man?

According to that Gospel which hath hitherto been the pillar of the Christian world, we are taught that whosoever endeavours to the best of his ability to reform his manners, and amend his life, will have pardon and acceptance.

He was one of the first writers, continues Langbain, who in those days attempted to reform the language, and purge it from obsolete expressions.

He made up his mind to reform these evils.

193 collocations for  reformed