Clearness and propriety of style are the chief excellencies of Hobbes's writings.

In his own person, he is represented to have been a man of virtue; a character nowise surprising, notwithstanding his libertine system of ethics.

Timidity is the principal fault with which he is reproached; he lived to an extreme old age, yet could never reconcile himself to the thoughts of death.

The boldness of his opinions and sentiments form a remarkable contrast to this part of his character.

He died in 1679, aged ninety-one.
Harrington's Oceana was well adapted to that age, when the plans of imaginary republics were the daily subjects of debate and conversation; and even in our time, it is justly admired as a work of genius and invention.