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The life of Mr. Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury written by himself in a Latine poem, and now translated into English.; Thomas Hobbesii Malmesburiensis vita. English
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Hobbes, Thomas, 1588-1679.
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de Cive the new Matter in 't Gratifi'd Learned Men which was the Cause It was Translated and with great Applause By several Nations and great Scholars read So that my Name was Famous and far spread England in her sad Pangs of War and those Commend it too whom I do most oppose But what 's disadvantageous now who wou'd Though it be Just ever esteem it Good Then I four years spent to contrive which way To Pen my Book de Corpore Night and Day Compare together each Corporeal Thing Think whence the known changes of Forms do spring Inquire how I compel this Proteus may His Cheats and Artifices to Display About this time Mersennus was by Name A Friar Minorite yet of Great Fame Learned Wise Good whose single Cell might be Prefer'd before an University To him all Persons brought what e'r they found By Learning if new Principle or Ground In clear and proper Phrase without the Dress Of Gawdy Rhet'rick Pride Deceitfulness Which he imparts to th' Learned who might there Discuss them or at leisure any where Publish'd some Rare Inventions to the Fame Of their own Author with each Authors Name About Mersennus like an Axis here Each Star wheel'd round as in its Orb or Sphere England Scotland and Ireland was the Stage Of Civil War and with its four years Rage Harras'd and wasted was Perfidious Fate Exil'd the Good and Help'd the Profligate Nay Charles the Kingdom 's Heir attended then By a Retinue of Brave Noble Men To Paris came in hope Times might amend And Popular Fury once be at an end My Book de Corpore then I design'd To write all things being ready to my Mind But must desist such Crimes and Sufferings I Will not impute unto the Deity First I resolv'd Divine Laws to fulfil This by Degrees and carefully I will My Prince's studies I then waited on But cou'd not constantly attend my own Then for six Months was sick but yet at length Though very weak I did recover strength And finish'd it in my own Mother-Tongue To be read for the good of old and young The Book at London Printed was and thence Hath visited the Neighbouring Nations since Was Read by many a Great and Learned Man Known by its dreadful Name LEVIATHAN This Book Contended with all Kings and they By any Title who bear Royal sway In the mean time the King 's sold by the Scot Murder'd by th' English an Eternal Blot King Charles at Paris who did then reside Had right to England's Scepter undeny'd A Rebel Rouâ— the Kingdom kept in aw And rul'd the Giddy Rabble without Law Who boldly Parliament themselves did call Though but a poor handful of men in all Blood-thirsty Leeches hating all that 's good Glutted with Innocent and Noble Blood Down go the Miters neither do we see That they Establish the Presbytery Th' Ambition of the stateliest Clergie-Men Did not at all prevail in England then Hence many Scholars to the King did go Expel'd Sad Indigent Burthensome too As yet my Studies undisturbed were And my Grand Climacterick past one year When that Book was perus'd by knowing Men The Gates of Janus Temple opened then And they accus'd me to the King that I Seem'd to approve Cromwel's Impiety And Countenance the worst of Wickedness This was believ'd and I appear'd no less Than a Grand Enemy so that I was for 't Banish'd both the King's Presence and his Court. Then I began on this to Ruminate On Dorislaus and on Ascham's Fate And stood amazed like a poor Exile Encompassed with Terrour all the while Nor cou'd I blame th'young King for his Assent To those Intrusted with his Government Then home I came not sure of safety there Though I cou'd not be safer any where Th'Wind Frost Snow sharp with Age grown gray A plunging Beast and most unpleasant way At London lest I should appear a Spy Unto the State my self I did apply That done I quietly retired to Follow my Study as I us'd to do A Parliament so cal'd did Govern here There was no Prelate then nor Presbyter Nothing but Arms and Souldiers one alone Design'd to Rule and Cromwel was that one What Royalist can there or Man alive Blame my Defence o' th' Kings Prerogative All Men did scribble what they wou'd Content And yielding to the present Government My Book de Corpore through this Liberty I wrote which prov'd a constant War to me The Clergy at Leviathan repines And both of them oppos'd were by Divines For whilst I did inveigh 'gainst Papal Pride These though Prohibited were not deny'd T' appear in Print 'gainst my Leviathan They rail which made it read by many a man And did confirm 't the more 't is hop'd by me That it will last to all Eternity 'T will be the Rule of Justice and severe Reproof of those that Men Ambitious are The King's Defence and Guard the peoples Good And satisfaction read and understood I two years after Print a Book to show How every Reader may himself well know Where I Teach Ethicks the Phantomes of Sense How th'Wise with Spectres fearless may dispense Publish'd my Book de Corpore withal Whose Matter 's wholly Geometrical With great Applause the Algebrists then read Wallis his Algebra now Published A Hundred years that Geometrick Pest Ago began which did that Age Infest. The Art of finding out the Numbers sought Which Diophantus once and Gheber Taught And then Vieta tells you that by this Each Geometrick Problem solved is Savil the Oxford Reader did supply Wallis with Principles Noble and High That Infinite had end and Finite shou'd Have parts but yet those without end allow'd Both which Opinions did Enrage and Scare All those who Geometricasters were This was enough to set me Writing who Was then in years no less than Seaventy two And in Six Dialogues I do Inveigh Against that new and Geometrick way But to no purpose Great Men it doth please And thus the Med'cine yields to the Disease I Printed then two Treatises that stung The Bishop Bramhal in our Mother-Tongue The Question at that Time was and is still Whether at God's or our own Choice We Will. And this was the Result proceeding thence He the Schools follow'd I made use of Sense Six Problems not long after Publish'd I A Tract but small yet pure Philosophy Wherein I Teach how Nature does cast down All weighty Bodies and huge massy Stone How Vapors are exhaled by the Sun How Winds engender Cold when that is done The Reason of their Levity and how The Barren Clouds do hang on Heaven's Brow How move and when that they are pregnant grown With Moisture do in violent Showers pour down By what Cement hard Matter is conjoyn'd And how Hard Things grow Soft the Cause do find Whence Lightning Snow Ice do proceed and Thunder Breaking through wat'ry Clouds even to wonder How Loadstones Iron attract how and which way They th' Arctick and Antarctick Poles obey Why from the Sea
THE LIFE OF Mr. THOMAS HOBBES OF MALMESBURY Written by himself In a LATINE POEM And now Translated into ENGLISH LONDON PRINTED for A. C. and are to be sold in Fleetstreet and without Temple-bar 1680. THE LIFE OF Mr. Thomas Hobbes OF MALMESBURY IN Fifteen hundred eighty eight Old Style When that Armada did invade our Isle Call'd the Invincible whos 's Freight was then Nothing but Murd'ring Steel and Murd'ring Men Most of which Navy was disperst or lost And had the Fate to Perish on our Coast April the fifth though now with Age outworn I' th' early Spring I a poor worm was born In Malmesbury Baptiz'd and Named there By my own Father then a Minister Many things worth relating had this Town And first a Monastery of Renown And Castle or two rather it may seem On a Hill seated with a double Stream Almost environ'd from whence still are sent Two Burgesses to sit in Parliament Here lie the Bones of Noble Athelstane Whose Stone-Effigies does there remain Who for reward gave them the Neighbouring Plains Which he had moistned with the Blood of Danes Here was the Roman Muse by Adelm brought Here also the first Latin Schole was taught My Native place I 'm not asham'd to own Th' ill Times and Ills born with me I bemoan For Fame had rumour'd that a Fleet at Sea Wou'd cause our Nations Catastrophe And hereupon it was my Mother Dear Did bring forth Twins at once both Me and Fear For this my Countries Foes I e'r did hate With calm Peace and my Muse associate Did Learn to speak Four Languages to write And read them too which was my sole delight Six years i' th' Greek and Latin Tongue I spent And at Fourteen I was to Oxford sent And there of Magd'len-Hall admitted I My self to Logick first did then apply And sedulously I my Tutor heard Who Gravely Read althou ' he had no Beard Barbara Celarent Darii Ferio Baralypton These Modes hath the first Figure then goes on Caesare Camestres Festino Baroco Darapti This hath of Modes the same variety Felapton Disamis Datisi Bocardo Ferison These just so many Modes are look'd upon Which I tho' slowly Learn and then dispense With them and prove things after my own sense Then Physicks read and my Tutor Display'd How all Things were of Form and Matter made The Aëry Particles which make Forms we see Both Visible and Audible to be Th' Effects of Sympathy Antipathy And many things above my reach Taught me Therefore more pleasant studies I then sought Which I was formerly tho' not well Taught My Phancie and my Mind divert I do With Maps Celestial and Terrestrial too Rejoyce t' accompany Sol cloath'd with Rays Know by what Art he measures out our Days How Drake and Cavendish a Girdle made Quite round the World what Climates they survey'd And strive to find the smaller Cells of Men. And painted Monsters in their unknown Den. Nay there 's a Fulness in Geography For Nature e'r abhor'd Vacuity Thus in due time took I my first Degree Of Batchelor i' th' University Then Oxford left serv'd Ca'ndish known to be A Noble and Conspicuous Family Our College-Rector did me Recommend Where I most pleasantly my Days did spend Thus Youth Tutor'd a Youth for he was still Under Command and at his Father's will Serv'd him full twenty years who prov'd to be Not a Lord only but a Friend to Me. That my Life's sweetest Comfort was and made My Slumbers pleasant in Nights darkest shade Thus I at Ease did Live of Books whilst he Did with all sorts supply my Library Then I our own Historians did peruse Greek Latin and Convers'd too with my Muse. Homer and Virgil Horace Sophocles Plautus Euripides Aristophanes I understood nay more but of all these There 's none that pleas'd me like Thucydides He says Democracy's a Foolish Thing Than a Republick Wiser is one King This Author I taught English that even he A Guide to Rhetoricians might be To Forrain Countries at that time did I Travel saw France Italy Germany This Debonaire Lord th' Earl of Devonshire I serv'd complete the space of twenty year His Life by Sickness Conquer'd fled away T' exchange it for a better the last day But yet provided ere he di'd for me Who liv'd with little most contentedly I left my pleasant Mansion went away To Paris and there eighteen Months did stay Thence to be Tutor I 'm cal'd back agen To my Lord's Son the Earl of Devon then This Noble Lord I did instruct when young Both how to Speak and Write the Roman Tongue And by what Arts the Rhetor deceives those That are Illiterate taught him Verse and Prose The Mathematick Precepts too with all The Windings in the Globe Terrestrial The whole Design of Law and how he must Judge between that which Equal is and Just. Seven years to him these Arts I did Explain He quickly Learnt and firmly did retain We spent not all this time in Books alone Unless you 'l take the World for to be one Travel'd through Italy and France did view The sweet Retirements of Savoy too Whether on Horse in Coach or Ship still I Was most Intent on my Philosophy One only thing i' th' World seem'd true to me Tho' several ways that Falsified be One only True Thing the Basis of all Those Things whereby we any Thing do call How Sleep does fly away and what things still By Opticks I can Multiply at will Phancie's Internal th' Issue of our Brain Th'internal parts only Motion contain And he that studies Physicks first must know What Motion is and what Motion can do To Matter Motion I my self apply And thus I spend my Time in Italy I scribbled nothing o'er nor then e'r wrought I ever had a Mistriss that me taught Then leaving Italy return we do To Paris and its stately Fabricks view Here with Mersennus I acquainted grew Shew'd him of Motion what I ever knew He both Prais'd and Approv'd it and so Sir I was Reputed a Philosopher Eight Months elaps'd I return'd and thought good For to Connect what e'r I understood That Principles at second hand more clear By their Concatenation might appear To various Matter various Motion brings Me and the different Species of Things Man's inward Motions and his Thoughts to know The good of Government and Justice too These were my Studies then and in these three Consists the whole Course of Philosophy Man Body Citizen for there I do Heap Matter up designing three Books too I' th' interim breaks forth a horrid War Injurious to my Study and a Bar. In the year sixteen hundred forty then Brake out a Sickness whereof many Men Of Learning languishing gave up their breath At last and yielded to impartial death Wherewith when seized he reputed was The Man that knew Divine and Humane Laws The War 's now hot I dread to see it so Therefore to Paris well-belov'd I go Two years elaps'd I published in Print My Book