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This reads as a strict standard for writing, plain enough for anyone to understand, but layered enough to reward a discerning reader. Hobbes is pointing to a style that does not chase simplicity alone, but tests whether real judgment can recognize it. It lands when writing is meant to speak broadly without losing intellectual seriousness.
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Books by Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
2005
Reason of state, propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War
2007
The English works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury
2004
Behemoth, or, The Long Parliament
2010
The Essential Leviathan
2016