Charrington made it as the very basis of his work, that all attempts should proceed uniformly throughout on what he justly felt was the true principle of civilising by Christianising.
At such a time it was that the seed of learning found a new and fruitful soil among the Anglo-Saxon people; and they who had been the latest receivers of the civilising element, quickly took the lead in religion and learning.
Enclosed herewith is a letter from the Marquis of Salisbury, in which he states that this scheme represents the only policy by which the civilising mission of this country can effectively be accomplished.
Thus the exhilarating influences of youth and vigour, usual in the first steps of colonisation, were here unknown, and a civilising agency rarely counteracted the social evils which prevailed.
The Spanish national conscience recognised the obligation of civilising and Christianising the Indians, a task which Spaniards finally accomplished.
Who are the parties who have invariably withstood all their plans for civilising Ireland?
All this is attached to names of which other mythical features besides those concerning civilisation are recorded, features which point to their solar significance, and serve to fill up the story of the civilising activity of their bearers.
Consequently, it is not the word and its meaning that have the chief import here, but the civilising power associated with the word, its force working on minds.
Among the Hebrews, accordingly, the heroes ofcivilising agriculture, with the exception of Noah, take a position in the myth far less influential than similar heroes in other nations.
But they liked to beautify their squalid huts with them, and she regarded them as an educative and civilising agency not to be despised.
The result," says the report, "is a sign of the civilisinginfluence worked through the Court by that admirable lady, Miss Slessor.
There are tribal systems outside the Semitic and the Indo-European, but these do not have the distinctive features that the tribal systems of these two great civilising peoples possess.
Its civilising influence is chiefly indirect, and acts by its needs and wants as much as by the fulness of its ideas.
Some account, therefore, of their history and of the circumstances which enabled them to assume a civilising rA'le will not be superfluous.
As the "civilising company" apparently does not believe in paying for what it can obtain otherwise, the rule of terror has been adopted throughout the company's dominions.
The latter two were then dispatched most cruelly by some of the "civilising company's" missionaries.
Filadelfia, a deserted establishment formerly belonging to some Colombians, who had sold it to the "civilising company," by whom it had been abandoned some time previously.
The next morning we were surprised to see a number of canoes coming up the river; as they approached nearer Orjuela recognised several of the occupants as Colombian employees of the El Encanto branch of the "civilising company.
He spent about two years there, traversing nearly the whole of the district occupied by the "civilising company," when in 1906 he suddenly disappeared in the vicinity of a point called El Retiro.
I began to wish that we had never set out on our trip down the Putumayo, if we were to be thus barbarously murdered by a band of half-breed bandits, as the employees of the "civilising company" now revealed themselves to be.
The civilising influences they required could come only from contact with superior races.
Thus, while they pursued their original purpose as missionaries to the heathen, almost civilising South America, and almost converting China, they kept their forces gathered for the repulse of Protestantism.
The Influence of the Roman Law upon England's Progress A civilising influence of the highest importance was the absorption of the Roman law into their legal, ecclesiastical, and political systems.
In 1598 some gentlemen in Fife, afterwards known as the "Fife Adventurers," obtained a grant of the Lewis with the professed object of civilising the inhabitants.
In 1609 Sir Roderick was knighted for the part he took, along with his brother Kenneth, first Lord Mackenzie of Kintail, in pacifying the Lewis and civilising its inhabitants.
When all is accomplished, whether the civilising process will make them as a people wiser, better, or happier, is a problem of more doubtful solution.
Whether the civilisingprocess will make the Japanese people wiser, better, or happier is the problem the answer to which can only be given in the future.
Then again, as he responded more readily to education, and acquired by degrees something of the civilising instincts that were affecting man, the dog became not only a trusty companion but a humble servant.
Man is not the only civilising agent in this world of many mysteries.
It has been imagined that the residence of missionaries would have the effect of civilising the natives, and adding to the safety of ships touching here; but experience fully proves the fallacy of such an expectation.
This feeling corresponds with my idea of the best method of civilising a savage.
Osiris was a civilising king of Egypt, who was murdered by his brother Set and seventy-two {39} conspirators.
His civilising mission may well have been the introduction of cultivation, at about 8000 B.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
