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It was considered very bad form to die or faint before the job was done. Nearby, a relative or close friend stood with a sharp sword, to administer the coup de grace by decapitation. It was all very sad and very honorable. Their loved ones bore the sorrow with pride." His voice, which had been low and tender, suddenly became very brisk. "Thank goodness it's gone out of fashion!"
"A good, sound thrashing that ain't all show and no hurt," was the harsh verdict. "Very well! I will administer it now. Len, hand me that strap. Hector, come here!" Leonard passed the strap to his father, the younger son shuffled across the porch to receive his sentence, and Peace stood breathlessly by, watching with frightened eyes.
I knew, in an instant, that he was committed, by a relentless hand, to suffering, in all likelihood, in the form of a fever. He told me he was Colonel P , and that, having been very suddenly taken ill, he had become alarmed for himself, and sent for me to administer to him my professional services.
Under the provisions of this act, the President appoints three commissioners, only two of whom may be of the same political party, to administer the act. It is one of the duties of this Commission to provide examinations for testing the fitness of applicants for public service.
They had put him out, but the end was not yet. Things done in violence have to be done over again. Bradlaugh was elected for the third time. Again he presented himself at the House, and on refusal to administer the oath he administered it himself. He was arrested for blasphemy, and charges of circulating atheistic literature were brought in various courts.
His originality indeed is best tested by the vigour and truth of his criticisms of the existing administration. First of all representation had been given without executive responsibility. Then for practical purposes the colonists were allowed to make many of their own laws, without the liberty to choose those who would administer them.
Above all, the clergy alone could administer the sacraments upon which the salvation of every individual soul depended. Although the Church believed that all the sacraments were established by Christ, it was not until the middle of the twelfth century that they were clearly described. It was Peter Lombard who first distinctly formulated the doctrine of the seven sacraments.
Judge, is, as I am just going to say in my statement, either to resign your post or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people. I do not expect that kind of conversion.
But the papists, conscious of their weakness in the argument, would fain see your Highness abandon that impartial justice which you were called of Heaven to administer in your great office, and to act factiously on their side, as if the cause of the Gospel could be determined by the arm of flesh." "What has brought you here?" exclaimed the Queen, bursting into tears.
He did the writing, questioning, and deciding, and as each voter had to be sworn he utilized his two associates by requiring them to administer the oaths and look wise. The colored man in about two weeks learned these oaths so that he could repeat them. The white man did not commit the brief formulas in the four weeks they were on duty.
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