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"Cummiskey," he proceeded, "we will pursue them -- we must have my darling back: yes, and I will forgive her, for what is she but a child, Cummiskey, not yet twenty.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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At 8: 35 a.m. on Good Friday, paramedics raced Eugene Cummiskey into Yale-New Haven Hospital in a real-world test of the hospital's response to a heart attack.
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Cummiskey couldn't have known he'd be in such good hands.
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"It was like a crack military Special Ops unit," Cummiskey says.
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Cummiskey, David, 1987, ˜Desert and Entitlement: A Rawlsian Consequentialist Account,™ Analysis 47: 15-19
Desert McLeod, Owen 2008
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More recently, David Cummiskey (Cummiskey, 1996) has argued that Kant's view that moral principles are justified because they are universalizable is compatible with those principle themselves being consequentialist.
Kant's Moral Philosophy Johnson, Robert 2008
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Indeed, Cummiskey argues that they must be: respect for the value of Humanity entails treating the interests of each as counting for one and one only, and hence for always acting to produce the best overall outcome.
Kant's Moral Philosophy Johnson, Robert 2008
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They accordingly did so, and had nearly reached the back wall of the garden when they met Malcomson and Cummiskey, on their way into the kitchen, in order to have a mug of strong ale together.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Begone, Cummiskey, it is not so, it can't be, I say: search again; she is somewhere in the house; you don't know, sirra, how she loved me: why, it was only this night that, on taking her good-night kiss, she -- ha -- what? what?
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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Cummiskey himself remained comparatively tranquil, but his tranquillity was neither more nor less than an inexpressible sorrow for what he knew the affectionate old man must suffer for the idol of his heart, upon whom he doted with such unexampled tenderness and affection.
Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831
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