If it
properly accomplishes this main purpose, when the reader finishes it he should feel that his understanding of life and of people has been increased and broadened.
After what I have already written, you will understand that the existence of a sound provision, unknown to us, in the Trust, which has been
properly carried out by the admiral -- or which can be
properly carried out by his representatives -would be necessarily fatal to our hopes.
No well-informed man will suppose that the affairs of such a confederacy can be
properly regulated by a government less comprehensive in its organs or institutions than that which has been proposed by the convention.
"Yes, he's a decent fellow, and will look at the thing
properly," Vronsky said to himself, catching the significance of Golenishtchev's face and the change of subject.
I believe that this follows from severities[*] being badly or
properly used.
Stay with me; if you will do the work of my house
properly for me, I will make you very happy.
But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very
properly be compared together; yet in modesty, surely, there can be no comparison between the two; for who ever heard of a gold-finder that had the impudence or folly to assert, from the ill success of his search, that there was no such thing as gold in the world?
The conversation to which I allude, occurred between me and a very respectable looking shirt, that I happened to be hanging next to on a line, a few days after my arrival; the colonel having judged it prudent to get me washed and
properly ironed, before he carried me into the "market."
Both of them are comprised in the articles of Confederation, with this difference only, that the former is disembarrassed, by the plan of the convention, of an exception, under which treaties might be substantially frustrated by regulations of the States; and that a power of appointing and receiving "other public ministers and consuls," is expressly and very
properly added to the former provision concerning ambassadors.
The red rooster has often said that my cluck and my cackle were quite perfect; and now it's a comfort to know I am talking
properly."
The knowledge of the master is to be able
properly to employ his slaves, for the mastership of slaves is the employment, not the mere possession of them; not that this knowledge contains anything great or respectable; for what a slave ought to know how to do, that a master ought to know how to order; for which reason, those who have it in their power to be free from these low attentions, employ a steward for this business, and apply themselves either to public affairs or philosophy: the knowledge of procuring what is necessary for a family is different from that which belongs either to the master or the slave: and to do this justly must be either by war or hunting.
There is one other yet to pass through the shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and until he has come and gone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been
properly fed, he went up to their racks and cried out: "Why is there such a scarcity of fodder?