How else is the command to love God anything but an arbitrary and impossible demand,demanding love, which every writer of fiction tells you, and tells you truly, cannot be compelledcan only go forth toward a being who shows himself worthy of our love, by possessing those qualities which we admire in our fellow men?

" Thus, the commands, Thou shalt love the Lord thy Godand thy neighbour as thyself, are shown to be not arbitrary and impossible demands, miscalled moral obligations, while they are merely legal and external ones; but true moral obligations, in the moral sense, to which heart and spirit can answer, "I rejoice to do thy will, O God; Thy law is within my heart."

They think of fathers, like too many among themselves, proud, and arbitrary, selfish and cruel.

But these arbitrary proceedings of the Government could not put an end to the circulation of the newspaper; the country gentlemen, by their own servants, continued to send each other single copies, and the matter was given up only when the Diet ceased to be in session.

MANUFACTURES.The distinction between hair and wool is rather arbitrary than natural, consisting in the greater or less degrees of fineness, softness and pliability of the fibres.

UNDER THE ARTIFICIAL SYSTEM adopted in the rearing of domestic cattle, and stock in general, to gratify the arbitrary mandates of luxury and fashion, we can have veal, like lamb, at all seasons in the market, though the usual time in the metropolis for veal to make its appearance is about the beginning of February.

She was less finished in her manners than Eve, certainly; a circumstance, perhaps, that induced Sir George Templemore to fancy her a shade more simple, but she was never unfeminine or unladylike; and the term vulgar, in despite of all the capricious and arbitrary rules of fashion, under no circumstances, could ever be applied to Grace Van Cortlandt.

Yet her method of acquiring the Panama territory from Colombia had been arbitrary and had made all her southern neighbors jealous of her power and suspicious of her purposes.

He said he was glad Lord George Gordon had escaped, rather than that a precedent should be established for hanging a man for constructive treason; which, in consistency with his true, manly, constitutional Toryism, he considered would be a dangerous engine of arbitrary power.

And we see that this standard is no arbitrary one but simply the Expression in Personality of the ONE all-embracing Spirit of the Affirmative; and therefore the only limitation implied by conformity to it is that of being prevented from running on lines the opposite of those of the Creative Process, that is to say, from calling into action causes of disintegration and destruction.

We shall find that Christ is indeed the Mediator between God and Man, not by the arbitrary fiat of a capricious Deity, but by a logical law of sequence which solves the problem of making extremes meet, so that the Son of Man is also the Son of God; and when we see the reason why this is so we thereby receive power to become ourselves sons of God, which is the dénouement of the Creative Process in the Individual.

The truth is, that so long as overseers, drivers, and others, are entrusted with the use of arbitrary power, and so long as Negro-evidence is invalid against the white oppressor, and so long as human nature continues to be what it is, no order from the Master for the better personal treatment of the Slave will or can be obeyed.

Is it reasonable, is it just, that a poor infant who has done no injury to any one, should be subjected, he and his posterity for ever, to the arbitrary will and tyranny of another, and moreover to the condition of a brute, because by mere accident, and by no fault or will of his own, he was born of a person, who had been previously in the condition of a slave?

Now the West Indian slavery is of such an arbitrary nature, that it may be termed proper or absolute.

Accustomed to the use of arbitrary power, they could no longer brook the loss of their whips.

Conceiving that there could be no liberty where any one man had the power of punishing another at his discretion, he took away from every master the use of the whip, and of the chain, and of every other instrument of correction, either by himself or his own order: he took away, in fact, all power of arbitrary punishment.

Whether he could not do away all arbitrary punishments and yet keep up discipline among the slaves?

He had already (in 1783), as we stated some time ago, abolished arbitrary punishment and instituted a Negro-magistracy; and since that time (in 1785) he had adopted the system of working by the piece.

that the first step to be taken in either case, was the total abolition of arbitrary punishment.

If they had ceased for seven years to feel themselves degraded by arbitrary punishment, they must have acquired some little independence of mind.

All arbitrary punishments were abolished, and all offences were tried and sentence passed by a Negro court.

And so she told him that he must have supper, and that he must let her go; and there was a sweet tinge of motherly authority in her wordsunconsciously to her, arbitrary and unconsciously to him, submissiveand she left him to smoke upon the broad porch, and dawdle in the chair he remembered so well, and talk with the bright Louisa.

So it happened that Jack the next morning announced in arbitrary way to his mother that they were going to Detroit.

The city was reached, and there was a proper luncheon, and then the arbitrary son dragged his sweetheart out upon the street with him.

The punishments inflicted for forgery, coining base money, and perjury were arbitrary.