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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 306, page id 1030877386:0306
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are by imposicion, whecher he doch noc find by experience
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he ould, and omies mans chinss which he mishie have doneit
he ould, Whecher he doch noc Pomethinss out ol meer ani
moliey, and will, wirtione cicher resard to che direction ot riehe
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re sec ordinarily in Children, and wise men And ae Pomerimes
in chemselres by experience. And Paporehend chis rery defence
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he is noc angry wich chose who dram him Fromhis Audy, or
cross him in his delires; il cher be necesticared eo doic, why
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aCharpwinter, or arains day chac keeps him ac home against
his ancecedene wil. Whechier he doch noc fometime blame him
selF, and Pay, Orhat a fool Was Pto do thus and thus, Or wistr EO
timselE, O ehat P had beenmise, Oc, O rhat Thad not done (uch an
act. IE he hareno dominion over his actions, it he beirres.
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istr, O that Lhad norbreached, or blame himselEFor scomins
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Spontaneity is, what deliberarion is, what ill, Propension, Ap-
petite, a tree Acent, and Liberry is, and to prove chey are mell
defined, there can be no other proof offered, but every mans omn ex-
perience and memory of imhat he meaneth by srch mords. For de-
finitions beins the besinnins of al demonstration, cannot chem-
selves be demonstrated, that is, provest eo another man; All that
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