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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
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and experience do help che WNill co act wich more facilicy
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ped by his cools. And precedene deliberations, if chey
vere Cad and serious, and proored by experience eo bcpro-
ticable, do Pare cho labour ot sbsequene consulcarions,
frustra ficper plura; quod fieri potest per pauciora, vec ne-
verchelels che actions irhichare done by vertue oFchele For.
meriy acquired habiesare no lesserce, chanit the delibera-
cion vere coexistene which chis parcicular action. Hc chac
tioch sained an habic and stilt eo plaz luch aleston, necds
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plares ic over and over; vec Tam tar From pivine credicro
him inchis, ehac wolkins or cacins universally considered
are tree actions, or proceed trem erue liberer, nor lo much
becaule chey wane a particular deliberacion beforeerery in-
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no deliberation ofreason, as we sec in bruce beasts. And
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precedent deliberacion hom eo do chis kind ot action is noc
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