age they are teftie, very wafpifh, and alwaies "over miferable: and yet few of them come to "any great age, by reafon of their miferable life "when young; but a greate deal fewer of them "come to fhew any great countenance, or beare "any great authority abroade in the world, but "either live obfcurely men wot not how, or dye "obfcurely men mark not when."

THOMAS HOBBES

Ufed to fay, that evil Government was like a tempeft, which may

throw down a tree, here and there a fruitful tree; but Civil War, or Anarchy, like a deluge, would fweep all away before them.

The Papacy," faid he, " is the Ghost of the "deceased Roman Empire, fitting crowned upon "the grave. It is a fhuttle-cock kept up by the "difference between Princes.

"Ambitious men wade through the blood of "other perfons to their own power.

"Words are the counters of wife men, they do "but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of Cicero, Ariftotle, and Thomas Aquinas."

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

W. Flint, Printer, Old Bailey.