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While empirical moral philosophy, which Kant calls moral anthropology, can tell us how people do act, it cannot,
Kant and Hume on Morality Denis, Lara 2008
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She was ---- No, every one can fill in the blank from their own experience for themselves; and if they cannot,
The Motor Pirate G. Sidney Paternoster
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End. _All this I know, yet I must forward_: To beg, my Birth will ne're consent to; and _borrowing is quite out of date_ -- Yet starve I cannot,
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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When I undertake to tell the best, I find I cannot,
Carol of Words 1900
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O I see now that life cannot exhibit all to meas the day cannot,
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` ` Ye see other folk can find game, though you cannot,
The Black Dwarf 1898
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Not more different are these two heads in their dresses than they are in their manner of conversation: this makes use of a delicate dialect, it being thought polite pronunciation to say instead of cannot,
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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Though it break my heart to bid you farewell and live without you, here I pay you back in your own words -- I cannot, I cannot,
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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As for sailors it is true, I admit, and the bad custom seems to involve that constant 'hitching up' of the lower garments which, however popular in transpontine dramas, cannot,
Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877
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The mode of thought that Cardinal Newman represented -- if that can be called a mode of thought which seeks to solve intellectual problems by a denial of the supremacy of the intellect -- may not, cannot,
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877
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