Assisting to civilize the Greeks, they then became Greeks; their posterity merged and lost amid the native population.
In Asia Minor, it is true, the Lydian empire had attained to great wealth and luxury, and was the most formidable enemy of the Asiatic Greeks, yet it served to civilize them even while it awed.
Attempts to civilize the Andamanese have met with little success either among adults or children.
In fact, they exhibited a degree of intelligence seldom to be found among tribes where no effort has been made to civilize them.
Nay, forcing him below it by the newly added vices of gambling and drunkenness, and yet all the while boasting of its desire to enlighten, instruct, and civilize him.
Notwithstanding many efforts to educate and civilize these Indians, most of them still cling tenaciously to the habits and customs of their fathers.
More has been done to civilize the Indians in the past twelve years than in any period of our history.
Thus was the noble work begun, which, favored by Providence, was about to civilize America, Africa, and Asia.
Europe was apparently destined to civilize the whole world.
We must Christianize him if we would civilize him.
We can never civilize the body while we leave the heart savage.
We have, it is true, a cumbrous system of machinery which is supposed to educate and civilize the Indian, called the Indian Bureau.
Hence Red Jacket began to look unfavorably on the attempts that had been made to civilize the Indian.
Dont go amung the nobel red man, now on our frontier, but stay at home, and write sum stanzas about him, and civilize him at a distance.
The zebra iz a striped hoss, the wildesst thing in natral history ov hiz size, and az hard tewcivilize az the hyena, and az useless, when civilized, az the osstritch or the rattlesnaik.
If I waz a-going tew civilize a parcel of heathen on sum distant ile by the job, i should debate sum time in mi mind which tew send, dancing-masters or missionarys.
I hav never had but one plan tew civilize the injun, since i hav got old enuff tew do him enny good, and this plan iz more unique, than elegant.
Powder and double B shot, iz the only thing that will civilize a hawk clear through, so that he will stay so, and it takes a big charge ov this too.
This iz the only way tew civilize the kind ov injun that i am a talking ov, and not hav tew do the work over agin.
To expect to civilize or Christianize the negro without the intervention of slavery is to expect an impossibility.
I am trying to civilize their congregations, so that the congregations may allow the ministers to develop, to grow, to become really and truly intelligent.
Do you know, Mr. Ponsonby, I think it will take full another century for women to really civilize men.
Why attempt to civilize the race within our doors, while there are so many distant and alien races to whom we ought to turn our civilizing attention?
He endeavored to prevent Christians from murdering each other, and did what he could to civilize the disciples of Christ.
He had no time to waste with them, but took a few of the tribe of Abraham, and He did His best to civilize these people.
God must have known 6,000 years ago that it was impossible to civilize people without a bible just as well as they know it now.
The man who would fain civilize the lowliest spot on earth needs something besides wealth for the task.
I could continue my efforts to improve this, as yet, untilled corner of the earth; and to civilize those who dwelt in it, whose minds had hitherto lain dormant.
But that was in order to civilize and Christianize them, and also to afford the colonists protection from them in their wild native state.
To civilize the savages, and teach them the ordinances of the holy religion, this was the one thing which we had most at heart, and towards this all our cares and labours were directed.
You may infer from thence, if you please, that Orpheus did not civilize the savage nations by his music.
He will probably depart for Florida with governor Johnstone, and I would advise him to travel among the Chickisaws or Cherokees, in order to tame him and civilize him.
When you Christianize and civilize the man, you put story upon story, for you develop faculty after faculty; and you have to supply every story with your productions.
My position is, that by consenting to their honest enthusiasm, we the identical effect you are perpetually crying out for--we civilize them, we civilize them.
And then men went to work, finally, to civilize their gods, to civilize heaven, to give heaven the benefit of the freedom of this brave world.
We wanted to civilize religion--civilize what is known as Christianity.
As far as the Philippines are concerned, I think that we should endeavor to civilize them, and to do this we should send teachers, not preachers.
He was a friend of all the world, and sought to civilize the human race.
She has never made an effort to civilize a human being.
You civilize man by increasing his wants, or, as his wants increase he becomes civilized.
I think it would destroy superstition, and I think it would civilize even Spain.
This man helped to civilize the world; and there is nothing under the sun so pathetic as the perfect.
In other words, I have great respect for every man who has tried to civilize my race.
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