Ameliorations

• 'Ameliorations is the better word, ameliorations. —  Coningsby
• Ameliorations and improvements seem to us positive evils; we sigh for the good old times, for the dirty streets of Paris, the villanous odours of Rome, the banditti of Naples, the obsequiousness of Greece, and the contempt, with the casual satisfaction of being spit upon, of —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• Ameliorations in his art, therefore, is now as necessary to the teacher, as improvements in machinery are to the mechanic and the manufacturer. —  A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education
• Ameliorations may be sought for in details, and the more of them the better for religion; but the great lines of Father Hecker's personality we should guard with jealous love in the formation of the future priestly characters of America. —  Life of Father Hecker

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