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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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have confessed, not only Flection, bur also Arr, Prudence.
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rictocle saich, is civill. Truly I hare concemplaced cheir acti-
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ousworks, vec my choustes did noc restect (o much upon
ehem, as upon cheir mater, wrho is (ec magnus in maenis,
chacheisnoc, minor in parvis; 50 sreac in greae chinss.
chache is noc less in (mall chings. Les, Phare scen chole
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seen enouxh co conture all che bold Faced Acheists oF cHIS
asc, and cheir hellimtr blasphemies. I scechem, bue l prai-
Ced chemarraillons mortis cFC0d, and admired chac srCAE
and Frst incellect, who hach boch adapred cheir organs, and
decermined cheir Fanciesto chese particular works. I Was
noc (0 simpleto alcribe chose Raricies co cheir omn inven-
cion, whichIhnea to proceed trom a meer instinct oFNa
cure. Inall ocher chines cheyarethe dulles OE creatureS.
Nacuralists rrire oF BCco, thac cheir Fancy is impertect, nOE
diltinet from cheir common sense, spread over cheir whole
bod. and only perceirins chinss prelent. When Arist
orte callschem Policical or Sociable Creacures, he did noc
incendicreally chaccher lired a ciril lite, buc accordins eo
an Analoey, because chey do such chines by instinet, astru-
ly Policical Creatures dooue ot judsemene. Nor WwhenL
read in SC. Ambrose, Ot cheir Flexacones Or Sexangular
celles, did Tcheretore conclude, chac chey Were Mathema-
ticians. Nor when L read in Crespet, chac chey invoke
Cod cotheiraid, when ther 80 ouc ofcheir Hires, bend.
inscheirchislis in form oFa crosse, and bowins chemletres;
did Icheretore chink, char ehis vas an aet ofreligious pie-
ex, Orthac chey vero capable ot Theolocical vertues, Whom
Isee in alLocher chines in which cheir Fancies arenot deter-
mined, cobeche silliest oF creacures, srangers noc onty ro
riphereason, bucco all resemblances ot it.
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