His ego me mersi studiis. Nam philosophandi

Corpus, Homo, Civis continet omne geni s.

( Vita, vers 137-138. Opéra, t. I, p. xc).

3. ... Mr Hobbes. wrote a Httle treatise in English, wherein he did set forth and demonstrate that the said power and rights were inseparably annexed to sovereignty... Of his treatise, though not printed, many gentlemen had copies, which occasioned much talk of the author ; and had not his Majesty dissolved the Parliament, it had brought him in to danger of his life (Hobbes, Considérations upon the réputation, loyalty, manners and religion of Thomas Hobbes written by himself by way of letter to a learned person, Works, t. IV, p. 414).

AETICLE III. — CHAPITRE I. —