Several attempts had been made to habilitate Oscar Wilde's drama on the New York stage, and had failed.
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But sorrow and disaster have followed upon innumerable efforts to habilitate it in the opera houses of the world.
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For our own sake we must habilitate him, educate and elevate him, make him, if possible, a contented and useful citizen.
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After the lapse of twenty years it is still impossible to say that "Otello" has really been habilitated in New York.
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It is the dregs of the population habilitated in the robes of their intelligent predecessors, and asserting over them the rule of ignorance and corruption....