"Improver" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... problem of race betterment is not only immensely simplified, but it is clearly shown to be more a matter for treatment by the biologist, acting through eugenics, than for the optimistic improver of ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
... residence in my diocese, I turned my attention to the improvement of land. I thought the improvement of a man's fortune by cultivating the earth was the most useful and honourable way of providing for a family. I have now been several years occupied as an improver of land and planter of trees.'[655] The same bishop gives us a most extraordinary description of the sources from whence his clerical income was derived. 'The provision of 2,000l., a year,' he says, 'which I possess from the Church arises from the tithes of two churches ...
— The English Church in the Eighteenth Century • Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton
... sure-fire improver of compost quality is time. Making a heap with predominantly low C/N materials inevitably results in potent compost if nitrate loss is kept to a minimum. But the C/N of almost any compost heap, even one starting with a high C/N will eventually lower itself. ...
— Organic Gardener's Composting • Steve Solomon
... the agent or attorney of the middle class of modern society.—He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... uneaten dinner, and for the knowledge that, if I wanted any angels to play with, I must henceforth put up with the anaemic, night-gowned nonentities that hovered over the bed of the Sunday-school child in the pages of the Sabbath Improver. ...
— Dream Days • Kenneth Grahame
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