The diplomatist and the shepherd are blended; a union not without warrant; the apostolic serpent and dove.

A tanned Machiavelli in tents.
Doubtless, too, notwithstanding his eminence as lord of the moving manor, Jacob's raiment was of homespun; the economic envoy's plain coat and hose, who has not heard of?
Franklin all over is of a piece.

He dressed his person as his periods; neat, trim, nothing superfluous, nothing deficient.

In some of his works his style is only surpassed by the unimprovable sentences of Hobbes of Malmsbury, the paragon of perspicuity.

The mental habits of Hobbes and Franklin in several points, especially in one of some moment, assimilated.