Aubrey's Brief Lives: Thomas Hobbes: With Hobbes's Latin Prose Autobiography, translated by William Duggan by John Aubrey

Aubrey's Brief Lives: Thomas Hobbes: With Hobbes's Latin Prose Autobiography, translated by William Duggan

John Aubrey with William Duggan (Translator)

74 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical informative lighthearted medium-paced

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The Malmesbury philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously said that life was 'nasty, brutish and short'; but, as Simon Webb's introduction makes clear, the author of 'Leviathan' was not entirely pessimistic, and only applied his most famous phrase to life...

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