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1 II, VII| should have no reason to prefer one thought or action to 2 II, XV | includes no such thing. I prefer also the word expansion 3 II, XXI| forbearing to consider it; or to prefer the motion of any part of 4 II, XXI| of his mind, if it should prefer it, he is not a free agent. 5 II, XXI| involuntary. For a man may prefer what he can do, to what 6 II, XXI| according as it thinks fit to prefer either to the other, we 7 II, XXI| For though a man would prefer flying to walking, yet who 8 II, XXI| its own actions, and to prefer their doing or omission 9 II, XXI| but a power or ability to prefer or choose: and when the 10 II, XXI| the one or the other; i.e. prefer the one to the other: since 11 II, XXI| unavoidably necessary to prefer the doing or forbearance 12 II, XXI| forbear to will, i.e. to prefer the being or not being of 13 II, XXI| not: he must necessarily prefer one or the other of them; 14 II, XXI| indifferency, whether he would prefer the lifting up his hand, 15 II, XXI| persons would with reason prefer the griping of an hungry 16 II, XXI| reason why men in this world prefer different things, and pursue 17 II, XXI| remains, How men come often to prefer the worse to the better; 18 II, XXI| should always infallibly prefer the best. Were the pains 19 IV, XVI| confirming it, that most men prefer their private advantage