What is "cannot but"

Usage examples of "cannot but".

The traveler cannot but like Augsburg at once, for its quaint houses, colored so diversely and yet harmoniously.

The result cannot but be a race of churlish, cacophonous hybrids, whose amorphous outcries will waver uncertainly betwixt prose and verse, absorbing the vices of both and the virtues of neither.

From whence I cannot but conclude that our geographers of Europe are in a great error, by supposing nothing but sea between Japan and California.

Besides, I cannot but suppose that whatever there may be to wish otherwise in Dr.

Nevertheless, even after making allowances under this head, I cannot but think that Omnipotence operating through all eternity might have produced something better.

When therefore these two Powers oppose one another, the Commonwealth cannot but be in great danger of Civill warre, and Dissolution.

And whatever shall turn our thoughts from the unreasoning and uncharitable passions, prejudices, and jealousies incident to a great national trouble such as ours, and serve to fix them on the vast and long-enduring consequences, for weal or for woe, which are to result from the trouble, and especially to strengthen our reliance on the Supreme Being for the final triumph of the right, cannot but be well for us all.

Besides, sir, you cannot but be acquainted that Mr Allworthy himself would never forgive my conniving at such matters, and particularly with you.

However, as I cannot but consider this as a breach of her generous confidence in my honour, you cannot expect that I shall, after this, continue to write myself or to receive letters, without her knowledge.

Some of you ask me that question, and I cannot but wonder with you.

But, by what I have gathered from your own relation, and the answers I have with much pains wringed and extorted from you, I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth'.