Nevertheless, they would very often be exercising their talent of thieving upon us, which I thought proper to put up with, as our stay was not likely to be long amongst them.
I thought proper to take on board one, who was about seventeen or eighteen years of age, named Oedidee, a native of Bolabola, and a near relation of the great Opoony, chief of that island.
The allowance to each man is two pounds a week, but I increased or diminished their allowance as I thought proper.
I should not do these gentlemen justice, if I did not take some opportunity to declare, that they always shewed the utmost readiness to carry into execution, in the most effectual manner, every measure I thought proper to take.
These reasonings at length determined me; but having plenty of money, I thought proper to take Stockholm, Copenhagen, and Holland in my way, and Barnes was in the meantime to prepare me a favourable reception at Vienna.
When he had applied what he thought proper, and was about to leave me, I asked him if my misfortunes had disguised me so much that he could not recollect my face?
Having thus gratified my curiosity, the old gentleman began to discover his own, in questions relating to myself, to which I thought proper to return ambiguous answers.
On this information she stared in my face for a considerable time, and then asked my name, which I thought proper to conceal under that of John Brown.
He thought proper to ask a thousand pardons, and assure me he meant no offence; while Bragwell feigned himself asleep, that he might not be obliged to take notice of what passed.
He therefore refused to back the Company's orders with any requisition from himself to the Nabob, but merely suffered them to be transmitted to him, leaving it to him to do just as he thought proper.
Mr. Hastings and Mr. Barwell, however, thought properto remove him.
Those who had money were well lodged, for they always made him some return for his kindness; but those who had nothing to give were content to accept whatever he thought proper.
This person, who is the doctor of the town, it appears was the bosom friend of the duke, in whom the latter had the greatest confidence, and allowed him to visit his wives professionally as often as he thought proper.
Nay, that slavery was permitted by the Almighty is fully proved by the state of the Jewish nation, until He thought properto bring them out of the house of bondage.
After turning over as many as I thought proper, I tied them in a handkerchief and set them aside, relocking the vacant drawer.
I told him as much as I thought proper of her illness, and he extorted from me, by cross-examination, most of the facts connected with its origin.
This wonder was indeed so natural that, lest it should arise likewise in the reader, we thought proper to give the solution of it in the preceding chapter.
This hint we thought proper to give the reader, as it may chance to be material.
As however it was my plan to avoid being known myself for the present, I thought proper to make no other enquiry than to ask whose servant he was?
But, as he was very sincere and honest in his intentions, he thought proper, while paying his court to her, to explain what his expectations were, and the reasons on which they were grounded.
Mean time however I thought proper to accept the bishop's invitation; and, as nothing better did actually intervene, when the hour came I kept my appointment.
The Squire, by a trick he thought proper to play, contributed not a little to kindle the smothering embers.
The bishops, being forbidden by the ancient canons to assist in trials for life, and being unwilling by any opposition to irritate the commons, who were already much prejudiced against them, thought proper of themselves to withdraw.
An impeachment was resolved on; and in order to escape their fury, he thought propersecretly to withdraw, and retire into Holland.
I should not do these gentlemen justice if I did not take some opportunity to declare that they always showed the utmost readiness to carry into execution in the most effectual manner, every measure I thought proper to take.
This vessel was captured by a French privateer; he was landed, and, not being considered as a prisoner, allowed to act as he thought proper.
I expressed the utmost horror and surprise; she embraced my knees, implored my pardon, and then, pointing to the nettles, requested I would use them if I thought proper.
I threw him some short answer, bade Harvey go home, saying that I would have some fellow light me to Marlboro' Street when I thought proper.
True to his kind he gave me every mark of politeness now, asked particularly after Mr. Carvel's health, and encouraged me to give him as much of my adventure as I thought proper.
In the matter of the school she had right on her side, and she must allow Judge Graves to do whatever he thought proper to maintain that right.
The subject being very important, I thought proper to postpone a decision upon that application.
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