But he contented himself with asking, 'You think, then, my lord, that in the present state of society, no dead-lift can be given to the conditionin plain English, the wagesof working men, without the destruction of property?' Lord Minchampstead smiled, and parried the question. 'There may be other dead-lift ameliorations, my young friend, besides a dead-lift of wages.'

To be assured that people in one part of the world are better off than those in another, will tend inevitably to bring about ameliorations for the latter.

This is that which throws him into natural history, as a main production of the globe, and as announcing new eras and ameliorations.

As great improvements, however, have certainly been made in some way or other, he sees reason to hope that not less important ameliorations may in time succeed.

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

By such important offices being filled in this manner, it is easy to conceive the various hardships to which many of the provinces and districts are exposed; nor can any amelioration be expected as long as this plan is persisted in and the excesses of the parties go without punishment.

Relieved by its protecting shield from the fear of war and the apprehension of oppression, the free enterprise of our citizens, aided by the State sovereignties, will work out improvements and ameliorations which can not fail to demonstrate that the great truth that the people can govern themselves is not only realized in our example, but that it is done by a machinery in government so simple and economical as scarcely to be felt.

He takes trouble to refute the exaggerated reports which were then circulated all over Europe about the cruelties and vandalism practised by the French: "If the French since the Revolution have not always fought for liberty, they have done so invariably for science; and wherever they carried their victorious arms abuses were abolished, ameliorations of all kinds followed and the arts of life were improved.

But Napoleon, by a wise and salutary mediation, stepped in between them, and prevented the effusion of blood, by restoring the old confederation, modified by a variety of ameliorations.

If the French since their Revolution have not always fought for liberty, they have done so invariably for science; and wherever they carried their victorious arms, abuses were abolished, ameliorations of all kinds followed, and the arts of life were improved.

But however liberal these ameliorations might appear to be, it was difficult for the nobles not only to concede privileges equal to those emanating from the throne, but also to ensure equal protection to those they thus enfranchised.

With these ameliorations the pump worked steadily, and the vacuum obtained became as good as in the old pump.

But time passed, bringing the usual ameliorations to the miserable.

The anti-slavery feeling of the civilized world had become too strong to wait for a long course of "preparations" and "ameliorations."

The anti-slavery feeling of the civilized world had become too strong to wait for a long course of "preparations" and "ameliorations."

Then, curiously, he delivered himself of the following: "When slavery shall have run itself out or yielded to the changes and ameliorations of the times, the owners and all dependent upon it will stand appalled and prostrate, as the sot whose liquor has been withheld, and nothing but the bad and worthless habit left to remind the country of its ruinous effects.

Christianity and its attendant civilization have done much for the amelioration of the condition of woman.

SOCIAL AMELIORATION IX.

It must gratify every friend to the amelioration of his species to learn, that the humane intention of the inventer is likely to be realized, as there are already three thousand Irishmen out of employ.

It contains more of the practical applications of modern science, and adverts to more of those interesting questions from which past improvements have sprung, and from the discussion of which future ameliorations are likely to flow, than any other of the newer works which have come under our eye.

And if I had to choose a sphere where one could rediscover the central forces of Christian life and of Christian practise, I would lean toward the enlightened democracies which to-day are vibrant with the plea that the shepherdless multitudes shall have social ameliorations and new incentives and selfless leaders.

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

This is Slavery in itself, detached from the ameliorations it may receive from individual slaveholders.

Endowed with a profound humanitarian feeling, he is preoccupied with the evils of society, with its rights, its mistakes, its tendencies and with their amelioration; while the poet of "Jacques Rolla"a refined sensualistdevotes his verse to the unbridling of the torments of imagination in delirium, to the agitations of hearts which have place only for love.

They were, indeed, ameliorations of the rigors of war upon which we might have insisted.