That it was the work of human hands, is clear from the nature of it.
The circuit was 3,600 stades, and the depth in most places was fifty fathoms.
The more prosperous South is too little interested in these people, and is doing little directcivilizing work among them, in many districts leaving that task to be performed by schools founded by Northerners.
Peter's reforms and the work of civilizing Russia by the introduction of western culture and education were continued by Elizabeth.
As empress, she forcibly obtained for Russia a controlling influence in the councils of Europe, while civilizing her people and mightily fostering the arts and sciences.
We can thus understand the existence of artistic designs and other evidences of civilizing influence among a people who were not yet acquainted with the use of iron.
It was not intended that only the fertile Black Lands along the Dnieper, near to the civilizing center at Constantinople, should absorb the life currents.
The civilizing tide pressed in, and by 1883 the United States, France, England and Germany had all concluded treaties and Korea was open to the outside world.
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We must not grumble if He chooses to use up a hundred more in civilizing him.
Affectionately selfish woman as she was, she would not have given up the alarming joy of one of those anticipated interviews for the chance of civilizing a capering wilderness of negroes.
The noble rabbis of Cincinnati are an enlightening and civilizing power in the city, and their fellow-citizens know it and are grateful for it.
It is he, and half a dozen such as he, who constitute in great degree the civilizing force of Cincinnati.
Many of the tribes which are now quiet and orderly and self-supporting were once as savage as any that at present roam over the plains or in the mountains of the far West, and were then considered inaccessible to civilizing influences.
The conception of love as a civilizing and humanizing power already underlay the sensuous stanzas of the Ninfale fiesolano, while the later part of the romance was not uninfluenced by recollections of the Divine Comedy[51].
The remark, however, is interesting in respect of the philosophy of love as a civilizing power, which we have seen constantly recurring from the days of Boccaccio onward.
Their success in civilizing these degraded creatures was such that whenever a quarrel broke out in any of the villages the governor had only to send his staff of office and peace descended on the settlement.
In his colossal undertaking he planned to have the coöperation of an order of knights--the Knights of the Golden Spur--specially created to aid him in the work of civilizing and christianizing the Indians.
The old predatory instinct was there still: Hellenisticism had supplied no civilizing influence to modify that.
But through both their reigns there is in the main good government in most of the provinces; excellent law and order; and a belief still in the high civilizing mission of the Persians.
Benassis began to laugh, but without bitterness; he said, rather sadly: "You mean that I should draw up some sort of memorial on various ways of civilizing France?
As these three professions are bound to deal with these issues of human life, it seemed to me that they must be the most powerful civilizing agencies of our time.
They have supposed that our objections are tocivilizing and evangelizing Africa; but we beg leave to say, that it is an error.
Extent of dominion has been her ruin, and instead of civilizing others has brutalized herself.
To their civilizing work among the Indians in South America we shall presently allude.
Western writers are apt, through their patriotic predispositions, to overestimate the organization, civilizing work, and security of the absolute monarchy that established itself in Rome after the accession of Augustus Cæsar.
They could not at the same time follow the noblest of all ideals and fulfil their duty as a civilizing force.
This act avowedly contemplates the preservation of the Indian nations as an object sought by the United States, and proposes to effect this object by civilizing and converting them from hunters into agriculturists.
In 1819, Congress passed an act for promoting these humane designs of civilizing the neighboring Indians, which had long been cherished by the Executive.
This is one of the surest methods of exterminating the deer; it is also one of the most merciful; and, being the plan adopted by our government for civilizing the Indian, it ought to be popular.
I think that Old Mountain Phelps had merely the instincts of the primitive man, and never any hostile civilizing intent as to the wilderness into which he plunged.
In the first place, he saw, with a clearness to which very few people have yet attained, the fundamental necessity of the school as the best civilizing agency, next to steady labor, and the only sure means of permanent and progressive reform.
Commerce is civilizing because "the power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "civilizing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
