Sufficient information is given in the _Vitae Hobbianae auctarium_
(_L.W._ i. p. lxv. ff.) concerning the frequent early editions of
Hobbes's separate works, and also concerning the works of those who
wrote against him, to the end of the 17th century. In the 18th
century, after Clarke's _Boyle Lectures_ of 1704-1705, the opposition
was less express. In 1750 _The Moral and Political Works_ were
collected, with life, &c., by Dr Campbell, in a folio edition,
including in order, _Human Nature_, _De corpore politico_,
_Leviathan_, _Answer to Bramhall's Catching of the Leviathan_,
_Narration concerning Heresy_, _Of Liberty and Necessity_, _Behemoth_,
_Dialogue of the Common Laws_, the Introduction to the _Thucydides_,
_Letter to Davenant and two others_, the Preface to the _Homer_, _De
mirabilibus Pecci_ (with English translation), _Considerations on the
Reputation, &., of T. H._ In 1812 the _Human Nature_ and the _Liberty
and Necessity_ (with supplementary extracts from the _Questions_ of
1656) were reprinted in a small edition of 250 copies, with a
meritorious memoir (based on Campbell) and dedication to Horne Tooke,
by Philip Mallet. Molesworth's edition (1839-1845), dedicated to
Grote, has been referred to in a former note. Of translations may be
mentioned _Les Elemens philosophiques du citoyen_ (1649) and _Le Corps
politique_ (1652), both by S. de Sorbiere, conjoined with _Le Traite
de la nature humaine_, by d'Holbach, in 1787, under the general title
_Les Oeuvres philosophiques et politiques de Thomas Hobbes_; a
translation of the first section, "Computatio sive logica," of the _De
corpore_, included by Destutt de Tracy with his _Elemens d'ideologie_
(1804); a translation of _Leviathan_ into Dutch in 1678, and another
(anonymous) into German--_Des Englanders Thomas Hobbes Leviathan oder
der kirchliche und burgerliche Staat_ (Halle, 1794, 2 vols.); a
translation of the _De cive_ by J. H. v. Kirchmann--_T. Hobbes:
Abhandlung uber den Burger, &c._ (Leipzig, 1873). Important later
editions are those of Ferdinand Tonnies, _Behemoth_ (1889), on which
see Croom Robertson's _Philosophical Remains_ (1894), p. 451;
_Elements of Law_ (1889).
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