Waldron, Francis Godolphin; E. & S. Harding [Hrsg.]; Harding, Silvester [Bearb.]; Edwards, James [Bearb.]; Lunn, William Henry [Bearb.]; Moltino, A. [Bearb.]; Hatchard, John [Bearb.]; Harding, Edward [Bearb.]: The Biographical Mirrour, Comprising A Series Of Ancient And Modern English Portraits, Of Eminent And Distinguished Persons, From Original Pictures And Drawings (Volume The Second): With Some Account Of Their Lives and Works (London: Printed For Silvester Harding ...; J. Edwards ...; W.H. Lunn ...; A. Moltino ...; And J. Hatchard, 1798)

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monftrating out of Mr. Hobbes’s own works, that no man, who is
thoroughly a Hobbiff, can be a good chriffian, or a good commonwealth’s
man, or reconcile himfelf to himfelf: becaufe his principles are not only
deftrudive to all religion, but to all focieties, extinguifhing the relation
between prince and fubjeCt, parent and child, mailer and fervant, huiband
and wife; and abound with palpable contradictions.
The fourth part contains fmall pieces and occafional fermons. He
had likewife prepared an hundred fermons for the prefs, but they were
torn by the rats before his death.
As for his perfon and character, we are told that he was of a middle
ftature, and adive; and of a complexion highly fanguine, and tinctured
with choler. Being a great lover of plain dealing and plain fpeaking, his
converfation was free from the affectation of phrafe and fancy; and he
ufed to fay, “ it was boyiffi fport to hunt for words, and argued a penury
“ of matter, which would always find expreffion for itfelf.” His un-
derftanding was very good, and greatly improved by labour and ffudy.
As a fcholar, his excellence lay in the rational and argumentative part of
learning. He was well acquainted W’ith ecclefiaffical and other hiftories;
and in the pulpit an excellent and perfuafive orator.

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