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voung earl under his care, who was then C Yn'('lUl-xtion who dis-c's was very suitable to Mr. Hobbes - ‘ he rt ,published
charged that trust with great fidelity. dedication to
his translation 6T Thucydides, and prefixed character of his
that young nobleman, in which he gives a . ' q, ,- m he wasfather, and represents in the strongest teuns are ,,,“accompaniedunder to that illustrious family. ca J"' *\ 0 the
his noble pupil to Paris , where he applied h.s '^"nde^and-study of natural philosophy; especially totlie 1 - H e hud tVe-; of mechanism, and the causes of Marin Mer-
Ile could not bear any discourse of death, and seem
iff all thoughts of it: he delighted to reckon upon’ '.- warm coat, which
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quent conversationssenna:
encewitn almost »u the learned m lauropc.V““‘ in g'"known totended his pupil into Italy , where at 5 isa , d to him his no-
that great y^rowouwr Galilei, who coinmiw venravViahlc u
tions very freely ; and after having 8C, ‘ n '„f Devonshire into Eng-that country, he vcUmied with the can ot l - t t0 se eU a
land. Afterwards, foreseeing the civu - Morsenne, he
retreat at Paris ■ where, by the S™* ofoc« aft crward held a cor-became known to the famous S „i,iccts, as ap
aanv adversaries, on account ot us uangeioy:-, |punciples. Among many illustrious persons who, upon ship-wreck ofThe royal cause, retired to France for safety, was SirCharles Cavendish, brother to the. duke of Newcastle: and tinsgentleman, being skilled in every branch of the mathematics,proved a constant friend and patron to Mr. Hobbes ; who, by en-gaging, in 1645, in a controversy about squaring the circle, be-came so famous, that, in 1647, he was recommended to instructCharles, prince of Wales, afterwards king Charles 11. in mathe-matics ; an office which lie discharged much to his satisfaction.
In 1650, was published at London, a small treatise of Mr.Hobbes ’s, entitled, Human Nature; and another, De Corpore1 olitico, or, Of the Elements of the Law. All this time he hadbeen digesting his religious, political, and moral principles, into acomplete system, called the Leviathan, which was printed at Lon-don in 1650 and 1651. After this he returned to England, andpassed the summer commonly at the earl of Devonshire’s seat,and some ot his winters in town, where he had for his intimatefriends some of the greatest men of the age. In 1660, upon the Irestoration, lie came up to London , where he obtained from theking an annual pension of 100/. ” But, in 1666, his Leviathan, andms treatise De Give, w ere censured by parliament, which alarmedbim veiy much, as did also the bringing in of a bill into the houseor commons to punish atheism and profaneuess. When this stormwas blown over, he procured a beautiful edition of his pieces in■ , 1 ?in° bep . ub i lshe r d T- in4to - in 1G68 > byJohnBle.au. lie diedin 0/9, aged 92. His character and manners are thus describedby Dr. W hits Kennet, hi his Memoirs of the Cavendish Family .\i ii n °. e , vi !*^ te (siysltt; for his whole life entertainedr. Hobbes m his family, as his old tutor, rather than as his friendr confidant. He let lnm live under his roof in case and plenty,n m his own way, without making use of him in any public, orso much as domestic, affairs. He would often express an abhor-tL^i,. so ! n ^ of !l ‘s principles in policy and religion; and bothand - . h y wouW frequently put off the mention of his name,
Hie , " as a humorist, and nobody could account for him.’
-1 jotessed rule qf health was to dedicate the morning to his
And therefore at his
anynon
reugui ...... purity scarcely ujmiiwu m uic _ 0 reign.
“ He lias in translation (says !u:) done Thucydides as much jus-j ticc as he lias done injury to Homer; but he looked upon himselfI ns born for much greater things than trending in the steps of idspredecessors. He was for striking out new paths in science, go-vernment, and religion ; and for removing the land-marks of for-mer ages. Ill’s ethics have a strong tendency to corrupt our mo-rals, and his politics to destroy that liberty which is the birthrightof every human creature. lie is commonly represented as a scepticin religion, and dogmatist in philosophy ; but he war- a dogmatistin both. The main principles of his Leviathan arc as little found-- .u-.-.i as the j-ijtcs he has laid down for
His book
od in moral or evange
." in mathematical demonstniuui.
nvusion
certifying
certain Irish
maintain a light horse or hobby, for thetowards the sea-side. The name was also used ....knights, who used to serve as light-horsemen upon hobbies.
HOBSIIEE GOFFKEES, a kind of Abyssinian slaves veryfrequent in llindostau. limy are highly valued for their cou-rage, fidelity, and shrewdness; in which they do so far excel, asoften to be raised to posts of great honour, and made governors of
places under the title of sublets.
IlOCHSTADT, or HOCHSTETT, a town of Germany , in
Suabia , 22 miles N.E. of Ulm.
IIOCKHOCKING, a river of the United States , in thenorth-western territory, which runs into the Ohio , 18 miles S.W.of Marietta,
HODMAN, a term formerly used for a young scholar admit-ted from Westminster school to be student in Christ church in
IIOE, or HOW, a well-known implement of husbandry, de--- '. X?c. This tool
VVXU/iU.
HOE, or HOW, a well-known implement m ..........,,
signed for eradicating weeds from gardens, fields, tkc. This toolis of great utility, and ought to be more frequently employed inthe unoccupied corners and spots of land during the mereseasons of tire year, by which operation the soil will he
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exercise, and the afternoon to his studies. T
first rising, he wal ked out, and climbed any hill w ithin his rcac »if the weather was not dry. he fatigued himself within doois >some exercise or other, to be in a sweat: recommending tiwtpractice upon this opinion, that an old man had more mois.uthan heat, and therefore bv such motion heat was_to be acquand moisture expelled. He used to say, that h^vas to 11 ^ ,
make use of ill instruments to do ourselves good: ‘ it 1 *£*•
(says he) into a deep pit, and the devil should put down Us veil foot, I would take hold of it to be drawn ll '
could not endure to be left in an empty house. \v tvenevecarl removed he would go along with him, even to bis las. - o’from Chatsworth to Hardwick. When he was in a veiy’condition, he dared not to be left behind, but made ms WJ > 1a feather-bed in a coach, though he survived the journey uvat., in. —no. 105-
is of great.stirring the
vacant seasons of the y(—,considerably improved. Sec Husbandry.
HOEI-TCH EOU, the most southern city of the province oi
Kiang-nan, in China , and one of the richest of the empire.
HOFF, a town of Franconia, 46 miles N.E. of Bamberg.HOFFMAN, Maurice, M.D. was born of a good family, atFurstensvalde, in Brandenbourg , Sept. 20, 1621 ; and was drivenearly from his native country by wir and pestilence. In 1637 hewas sent to study in the college of Colon. Famine and theplague drove him from thence to Kopnik, where he hurled his fa-ther ; and in 1638 lie went to Altorf , to his maternal uncle, whowas a professor of physic. Here lie finished his studies in Hassi-j cal learning and philosophy, and then applied with the utmost ar-' dour to physic. In 1641 he went to the university of Padua,
hich then abounded with men very learned in all sciences.
-ii,„ 0 bic ‘ .Mu-suit: and he
fessor extraordinary m anaiumv ... c
of physic, and soon after member of the college of physicians ; m1633, professor of botany, and director of the physic-garden. Hedied in 1698. His works are: I. Altdorfi Deltcix Hortenses; 2.Appendix ad Gatalogum Plantarum hortcusium; 3. Deli da? rii-* ‘ ’1.-.-/;..