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"text": "This is but a brief outline of what the principles are upon which the common operations of the Fruit Garden depend; yet it is hoped that it may not be without its use in calling attention to the rationalia of what may seem extremely simple and well-understood practices, but which are undoubtedly neither so perfect, nor generally so skilfully performed, as to be incapable of amendment.",
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"ref": "1871, J. A. S. Rollwyn, Astronomy Simplified for General Reading, page 291:",
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"ref": "1923, The Open Court, volume 37, page 416:",
"text": "[…]; but there were the revival of original moral codes, the revaluation of the humanities in a new aesthetic interpretation, the non-human departure in logistics, not to mention the occasional diverting squabbles over archeological finds, spiritism, ethical culture, revised economic distribution, and the rationalia of various vitalisms which indirectly affected the final outcome.",
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"ref": "1973, The Pacific Reporter, page 830:",
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"text": "If, as the Law Commission has it,³⁰ the rationalia of the defence of duress are that it is unjust as retribution and useless as a deterrent to punish someone who acts under duress (because actors under duress cease to exercise the freewill which is predicated by the criminal law, and are therefore not an appropriate subject for blame in the same way that a relatively morally autonomous individual might be, and neither can their conduct be expected to be capable of alteration by deterrence as otherwise it might be), the question is whether the defence can be limited so as not to extend to the person who believes without reasonable grounds in the existence of a state of affairs which would ground a defence of duress?",
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"text": "As we have seen, the rationalia of vicarious liability are slippery. If one once accepts its practical necessity in the modern world, that same necessity cannot easily be confined within the elusive technicalities of the ‘master-servant’ relationship.",
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