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We want to be sure, that wherever a girl is, there should be a sweet, subduing and harmonizing influence of purity, and truth, and love, pervading and hallowing, from center to circumference, the entire circle in which she moves. If the boys are savages, we want her to be their civilizer.
He knew that the original of this personage had been nothing more than a human being, who might indeed have been conspicuous as a brave soldier in war, or as a skilful physician who helped to stop the plague, or as a civilizer who imported new food or improved agriculture.
Suffice it that he was a man of Devon, brought up in a cloister at Exeter; and that he had crossed over into Frankenland, upon the lower Rhine, and become a missionary of the widest and loftiest aims; not merely a preacher and winner of souls, though that, it is said, in perfection; but a civilizer, a colonizer, a statesman.
Oxford was desolated by the Norman Conquest, and anything that remained of the educational institution of Alfred was in all probability swept away. Another measure, indispensable to the civilizer as well as to the church reformer in those days, was to restore the intercourse with Rome, and through her with continental Christendom, which had been interrupted by the troubles.
For it must be confessed that, in spite of the cherished theories of most romances and all statesmen and commanders, that FEAR is the great civilizer of the savage barbarian, and that he is supposed to regard the prowess of the white man and his mysterious death-dealing weapons as evidence of his supernatural origin and superior creation, the facts have generally pointed to the reverse.
Then seeing Dalrymple tear up his own letter immediately after reading it, and begin another, I added, still in my own mind "And it is from the lady to whom he was writing." Presently he paused, laid his pen aside, and said: "Arbuthnot, would you like to go with me to-morrow evening to one or two soirées?" "Can your Civilizer provide me with my evening suit in time?" "He? The great Michaud?
There hain't no hypocrisy and Phariseeism in a good straight club death, and most likely whilst he wuz eatin' me up he wouldn't pose before foreign nations as a reformer and civilizer of the world." "Oh, Sister Arvilly," sez he, "think of the hideous idols they worship! You can't approve of that," sez he.
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