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not a necessary demand of reason
On the other hand, as the consequences do not render possible their conditions, but rather presuppose them—in the consideration of the procession of consequences (or in the descent from the given condition to the conditioned), we may be quite unconcerned whether the series ceases or not; and their totality is not a necessary demand of reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

not a necessary duty on requisition
There are, readily I admit, thousands of occasions in which it is not proper to divulge promiscuously a private correspondence, though on public affairs, to the world; but there is no occasion in which it is not a necessary duty, on requisition, to communicate your correspondence to those who form the paramount government, on whose interests and on whose concerns and under whose authority this correspondence has been carried on.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

novel a novel devoid of rabid
A deep heart-searching novel, a novel devoid of rabid melodrama.
— from Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers

not a new declaration of religious
It is proper to also observe that the Act of 1649 was not a new declaration of religious freedom on the part of Lord Baltimore's administration, but was a solemn affirmation of the toleration granted by the Catholic Proprietary from the beginning of the Settlement in 1634.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons


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