inted at
Caropolis, i.e. London, and prefixed to Vitae Hobbianae Auctarium 1681
in 8vo. and 1682 in 4to.

A Brief of the Art of Rhetoric, containing the Substance of all that
Aristotle hath written in his three Books on that Subject, printed in
12mo. but without a date.

A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Law of
England.

An Answer to Archbishop Bramhall's Book called the Catching of the
Leviathan, London 1682 in 8vo.

Seven Philosophical Problems, and two Positions of Geometry, London
1682 in 8vo. dedicated to the King 1662.

An Apology for himself and his Writings, of which we have already
taken notice.

Historia Ecclesiastica carmine elegiaco concinnata, London 1688 in
8vo.

Tractatus Opticus, inserted in Mersennus's Cogitata
Physico-Mathematica, Paris 1644 in 4to.

He translated into English Verse the Voyages of Ulysses, or Homer's
Odysseys. B. ix, x, xi, xii. London 1674 in 8vo.

Homer's Iliads and Odysse[y]s, London 1675, and 1677 in 12mo; to which
is prefixed a Preface concerning Heroic Poetry. Mr. Pope in his
Preface to his Translation of Homer's Iliad, says, 'that Mr. Hobbs, in
his Version, has given a correct explanation of the sense in general,
but for particulars and circumstances, lops them, and often omits the
most beautiful. As for its being a close translation, I doubt not,
many have been led into that error by the shortness of it, which
proceeds not from the following the original line by line, but from
the contractions above mentioned. He sometimes omits whole similes and
sentences, and is now and then guilty of mistakes, into which no
writer of his learning could have fallen but through carelessness. His
poetry, like Ogilby's, is too mean for criticism.' He left behind
likewise several MSS. Mr. Francis Peck has published two original
Letters of our author; the first is dated at Paris October 21, 1634,
in which he resolves the following question. Why a man remembers less
his own face, which he sees often in a glass, than the face of a
friend he has not seen a great time? The other Letter is dated at
Florence, addressed to his friend Mr. Glen 1636, and relates to Dr.
Heylin's History of the Sabbath.

Thus have we given some account of the life and writings of the famous
Philosopher of Malmsbury, who made so great a figure in the age in
which he lived, but who, in the opinion of some of the best writers of
that time, was more distinguished for his knowledge than h