ibute paid to the
masters of intellect. They have had their shrines and
pilgrimages.

None of our authors have been better known, nor more highly
considered, than our Hobbes, abroad. I find many curious
particulars of him and his conversations recorded in French
works, which are not known to the English biographers or
critics. His residence at Paris occasioned this. See
Ancillon's Melange Critique, Basle, 1698; Patin's Letters, 61;
Sorberiana; Niceron, tome iv.; Joly's Additions to Bayle.--All
these contain original notices on Hobbes.

[373] To his Life are additions, which nothing but the self-love of
the author could have imagined.

"Amicorum Elenchus."--He might be proud of the list of
foreigners and natives.

"Tractuum contra Hobbium editorum Syllabus."

"Eorum qui in Scriptis suis Hobbio contradixerunt Indiculus."

"Qui Hobbii meminerunt seu in bonam seu in sequiorem partem."

"In Hobbii Defensionem."--Hobbes died 1679, aged 91. These two
editions are, 1681, 1682.

[374] This fact has been recorded in one of the pamphlets of Richard
Baxter, who, however, was no well-wisher to our philosopher.
"Additional Notes on the life and Death of Sir Matthew Hale,"
1682, p. 40.

[375] "Athen. Oxon.," vol. ii. p. 665, ed. 1721. No one, however, knew
better than Hobbes the vanity and uselessness of _words_: in
one place he compares them to "a spider's web; for, by
contexture of words, tender and delicate wits are insnared and
stopped, but strong wits break easily through them." The
pointed sentence with which Warburton closes his preface to
Shakspeare, is Hobbes's--that "words are the counters of the
wise, and the money of fools."

[376] Aubrey has minutely preserved for us the manner in which Hobbes
composed his "Leviathan:" it is very curious for literary
students. "He walked much, and contemplated; and he had in the
head of his cane a pen and inkhorn, and carried always a
note-book in his pocket; and as soon as a thought darted, he
presently entered it into his book, or otherwise might have
lost it. He had drawn the design of the book into chapters,
&c., and he knew whereabouts it would come in. Thus that book
was made."--