improving

improving englannista suomeksi

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improving englanniksi

1. That tends to improve someone or something (especially to educate or morally better a person).

2. 1663, (w), ''Some Considerations Touching the Usefulnesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy'', Oxford: Richard Davis, Essay 1, p. 2,http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A29031.0001.001

(..) that Diviner part of Man, the Soule, which alone is capable of wearing the Glorious Image of its Author, being endowed with two chief Faculties, the Understanding and the Will; the former is blest and perfectionated by Knowledg, and the latter’s Loveliest and most improving property is Goodnesse.

3. {{quote-book|en|year=1741|author=David Hume|chapter=On the Delicacy of Taste and Passion|title=Essays, Moral and Political|location=Edinburgh|publisher=A. Kincaid|page=6|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004806352.0001.000

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1876|author=Mark Twain|title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer|url=http://www.gutenberg.org/files/74/74-h/74-h.htm|chapter=3

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1934|author=Aldous Huxley|title=Beyond the Mexique Bay|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|chapter=Guatemala City|pages=95–96|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.462790

6. (quote-text)|url=https://archive.org/details/bertiewoostersee00wode|chapter=4|page=45|publisher=Scribner|year_published=2000|location=New York

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