Excerpt from Hobbes I desire to Offer most grateful thanks to His Grace the Duke Of Devonshire, not only for permitting me to have free access to the Hobbes mss. At Hardwick, but also for his signal generosity in intrusting the more important Of them to me in London, when it was found that they could not be conveniently studied on the spot. This favour was first granted, a long time back, at the instance of the late Mr Grote but lately it has been renewed, as regards the most valuable of the mss. (the copy Of 'the Elements Of Law, Natural and Politique, ' with Hobbes's autographic dedication and corrections), upon the expression Of a simple request. I have been thus enabled to discover not a few facts Of importance concerning one whose connection with three generations Of the Cavendish family reflected equal credit upon it and upon him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.