Poets-Verses on two celebrated modern ones, xi. 395. Have con-
tributed to the spoiling of the English tongue, vi. 52. Immortalize
none but themselves, xiv. 166. A good poet can no more do with-
out a good stock of similes, than a shoemaker without his lasts, viii.
69. One who is provident can by no means subsist without a com-
mon-place book, 71. Number of them in London and its suburbs,
xi. 286..

Polemia, John Bull's eldest daughter-Her character, xxiii. 198.
Polidore, Sir-What the wrong side of his office, xv. 262.
Polignac, abbé de-His character, vii. 209.

Polite Conversation-xxii. 273.

Politeness-When at its greatest height in England and France,
viii. 56.

Politicians-Few of them so useful in a commonwealth as an honest
farmer, xii. 259. A mixim learned from them, xix. 148. Allego-
rize all the animal economy into state affairs, xvi. 45. Secrecy
one of their most distinguishing qualities, 111. Other requisites to
them, ibid. King of France establishes an academy for their in-
struction, ibid. A maxim held by them, xix. 148.

Politics-Reduced to a science by the wits of Europe, ix. 151. A rule
in them among a free people, ii. 2:8. Nothing required for a know-
ledge in them but common sense, vi. 233. What they are, in the
common acceptation of the word, xiv. 175. An uncontrollable max-
im in them, xiii. 217. One cause of the want of brotherly love,
xiv. 58. In all ages, too little religion mingled with them, 60. An
expression appropriated by the French to beauty, applicable to
them, xv. 152. To show ill-will, without power of doing more, no
good policy in a dependent people, 178. Never made by ministers
the subject of conversation, xxii. 199. Specimen of Mr. Gay's in-
tended treatise on them, xvi. 111. Dr. Swift's creed in them, xviii.
243.

Pompey-At his death, made a contemptible figure, xiv. 233. His de
gree of fame, viii. 180.

Poor-Proposel for giving badges to them, xii. 281. xiii. 274. The only
objection made to such a proposal answered, 276. Industrious poor
more necessary members of the commonwealth than the rich, xiv.
36. Begging poor mostly become such by their own idleness, at-
tended with all manner of vices, 95, 113. No word more abused
than it, 95. Enjoy many blessings not common to the rich and
great, 96, 100.

Pope, Mr-His character, xi. 138. Wrote his Dunciad at the request
of Dr. Swift, 67. xvii. 206. xviii. 99. Paper-sparing, xi. 36. Ver-
ses to him while writing the Dunciad, 66. Overturned in a coach,
and much hurt, xvii. 86, 89, 90, 92, 230. Used to quit his guests
soon after supper, xviii. 196. In danger a second time of being
drowned, xx. 54. Swift pushed the subscription for his Homer, xv.
305. Letters of his secreted, and afterward published without his
consent, xx. 194. Various reading in his Dunciad, 228. Unable to
bear the sea, 230. His character as a poet, x. 206. Inscription
under his portrait at Oxford, xx. 296. Lord Bolingbroke's judgment
of his Ethic Essays, xix. 87. His character of Dr. Swift and his
writings, xx. 96. His account of Lord Bolingbroke's plan of life and
studies in France, 226. Why the friendship of young rather than of
old people cultivated by him, 228. Gives Dr. Swift an account of
his course of life and amusements, 229. His resentment against
Bentley, xxiv. 30.

Pope, of Rome-His bulls ridiculed, iii. 105. Form of a general par-
don given by him, 107.

Popery-The run against it after the revolution as just and reasonable
as that against fanaticism after the restoration, v. 176. Whether
the principles of the whigs or tories are most likely to introduce it,

195. Vain fears of the danger of it excited by the whigs, viii. 120.
The most absurd system of christianity professed by any nation,
xiii. 125. In a declining state in Ireland, ibid.

Portland, James Bentinck, earl of-Described, under the character
of Phocion, ii. 294. His character, vi. 165.

Portland William Bentinck, duke of-His character, xix. 89.
Portraits, Engraved, might supply the place of medals, viii. 227.
Portugal-Deceived by the false representations of the whigs, vi. 222.
Two alliances with that crown, very disadvantageous to England,
v. 282, 284. The war in that kingdom entirely abandoned by the
allies, and left to the charge of the English, vii. 120. The engage-
ment of the king of Portugal to raise a number of forces never per-
formed, though the subsidies for them were constantly paid,
ivid.
Positiveness-A good quality for preachers and orators, xiv. 166. Po-
sitive men the most credulous, xxiii 369.

Possessions-Limited in all good common wealths, xiv. 168.

Poulet, Jolin, earl of, lord steward--xxi. 192. xxii. 212. His charac-
ter, vi, 167.

Powel, Jidge-Character of him, xxi. 255.

the puppet-show man-xi. 160.

Power-No blessing in itself, xiv. 42. Is dangerous in the hands of
persons of great abilities, without the fear of God, 52. Naturally
attended with fear and precaution, xviii. 9. What would cool the
lust of absolute power in princes, xix. 165.

Powers-What those are into which all independent bodies of men
seem naturally to divide, ii. 277. The balance of power how best
conceived, 279. The error of those who think it an uncontrolla-
ble maxim that power is safer lodged in many hands than one, 283.
The military ought always to be in subjection to the civil, v. 65, 89.
A firm union in any country may supply the defects of power, xii.
251.

Praise-What it was originally, and how changed by the moderns,
iii. 56. Like ambergris, xxiii. 371.

Pratt, Dr. Benjamin, provost of Dublin, vicetreasurer of Ireland-
Anecdote of him, iv. 186. His character, ibid. xvi. 157. Refuses
preferment designed for him, unless it be given him in a manner
consistent with his reputation, xvi. 158, 164, 167, 170. xvii. 36. xxi,
7, 195. xxii. 143.

Prayers-Composed by Dr. Swift, for Mrs. Johnson, during her last
illness, xiv. 153, 154, 156.

Preaching-May help well-inclined men, but seldom or never re-
claims the vicious, xiv. 174. Instructions for it, viii. 3, 26. The
causes of the disregard paid to it in Ireland, xiv. 120. Remedies
against it, 126.

Precedence-Right of between Physicians and Civilians inquired in-
to, xii. 34.

Precedents-The use made of them by lawyers, ix. 281. Taken from
times of exigency not applicable to other times, xii. 108. The mo-
tives and circumstances that first introduced them should be con-
sidered, 142.

Predictions of sundry events in the year 1708. iv. 99.

Preface to the bishop of Sarum's Introduction, viii. 95.

Prefaces-Remarks upon the writers of them, iii. 54, 56. See
Dryden.

Prelates-A modern custom with some, to talk of clergymen as if
themselves were not of the number, viii. 115. See Bishops.
Prendergast, Sir Thomas-Why made a baronet, xi. 342.
Prepossession-How it blinds the understanding, xiv. 13.

Prerogative, the king's-The meaning of that term, xii. 156. Lord
Bacon's opinion of it, 157. Whoever seeks favour with a prince

-by a readiness to enlarge it, ought to provide that he be not outbid
by another party, vi. 345.

Presbyterians' Plea of Merit examined-xiii. 113.

Presbyterians-Their notions of persecution considered, iv. 38. Would
rather lose their estates, liberties, religion, and lives, than the plea-
sure of governing, 41. Could they be the national church, divisions
would arise among them, ibid. More dangerous than the papists,
viii. 124. Their rise in England, xiii. 114. Little difference be-
tween them and the independents, who got the better of them at the
time of the grand rebellion, 117, 118. Had a good share of pre-
ferments during the usurpation, 118. An account of their conduct
under James the Second, 119. Style the Roman catholics their
brethren, 120. Several of them held commissions under King James,
against the prince of Orange, 121. Never much loved by King
William, though a calvinist, 123. Desert their old friend King
James, when his affairs were desperate, ibid. Declared that, if
the pretender invaded the north of Ireland, they would sit still and
let the protestants fight their own battles, 124, 227. Have never
renounced any one principle by which their disloyal predecessors
acted, 128, 225. Their preachers, when in power, wrote books
against liberty of conscience, 134. Have ever professed a hatred
to kingly government, 131. In the fanatic times, professed them-
selves to be above morality, 214, 239. Gained by the rebellion
what the catholics lost by their loyalty, 238. See Jack.
A Present-Is a gift to a friend of something he wants, or is fond of,
and which cannot be easily got for money, xiv. 254. xvii. 234.
Press-A bill, intended for its regulation, vii. 143. A clause propos-
ed, that the author of every book, pamphlet, or paper, should be
obliged to set his name and place of abode to it, ibid. Observa-
tions on that clause, and on the liberty of the press, 144.
Presto-Why Dr. Swift so called, xxi. 271.

Pretender-His legitimacy not suspected in any public act since the
revolution, iii. 319. The great use which the whigs have always
made of him. v. 28. Whether most opposed by whigs or tories, 199.
The former whigs great advocates for his illegitimacy, 222. Neither
Queen Anne nor her ministry had any design to bring him in, vi.
307, 333. Bishop Kennett's reflections on the subject, xv. 305.
Pride-Reflection upon the baseness of it, ix. 338. By what means we
might utterly extinguish it, xiv. 39. What often its composition,
xxiii. 371.

Prideaux, Dr-The reception he met with from his bookseller, iii.
182.1
Princes-The greatest services of little weight with them, when put
in the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions, ix. 54. They
see by the eyes of ministers, 74. Their manner of rewarding those
who have done some great services to them, 225, 226. The exam-
ple of the best will not reform a corrupt age, iv. 154. How they
may best acquire power in a limited monarchy, 167. Those who
have been most mysterious in government have least consulted
their own quiet, and their people's happiness, vi. 233. Strange
Mere should be so many hopeful princes, and shameful kings, xiv.
174. Favourites of dangerous consequence to them, v. 130. De-
scend from their dignity, by heading parties, 168. To what those
who have been ruined have chiefly owed their misfortunes, 184.
When they ought in prudence to receive overtures of a peace, 261.
By their education, are usually more defective both in strength and
wisdom than thousands of their subjects, xiv. 35. In countries that
pretend to freedom, are subject to those laws which their people
have chosen, 37. The best prince, in the opinion of wise men, only
the greatest servant in the nation, ibid. Wise princes find it ne-
cessary to have war abroad, to keep peace at home, iii. 192. Of

all other mortals, princes are the worst educated, vi. 304. A cau
tion to those who seek favour by advising the extension of preroga-
tive, vi. 345. It is their misfortune, that they are obliged to see
with other men's eyes, and hear with other men's ears, xiv. 79.
Prior, Matthew, Esq-Suspected to be the writer of The Examiner,
v. 109. xxi. 142. Like to be insulted in the street for it, ibid. A
better courtier than Swift, xxi. 244. Made a commissioner of the
customs, xxii. 69. Sent as a negotiator to France, vii. 72. xv. 197.
Much liked there, on account of his wit and humour, vii. 210.
Lord Bolingbroke's letter to him while in France, xv. 234. Much
loved and esteemed by that minister and Mr. Harley, after their
misunderstanding with each other, vi. 172, 327. His Journey to
Paris, iv. 253. His verses on Mr. Harley's being stabbed, iv. 211,
216. His character as a poet, x. 206. His political character, x.
ibid. A good punster, xxii. 14. Reduced to the necessity of pub-
lishing his works by subscription, xvi. 165. Much straitened in
his circumstances, ibid. Many subscribers to his Works procured
by Swift, i. 265. xvi. 183.

Prior, Thomas-His "List of the Absentees," xii. 245.

Privilege of Parliament-Two instances wherein it was absurd, xiv.

232.

Prize fighting-Its origin in England, iii. 188.

Problem, The-That Lord Berkeley stinks, x. 52.

Proby, Captain-Accused of an inclination to popery unjustly,

xvii. 13.

Proby, Thomas, surgeon general of Ireland-The earl of Wharton's
treatment of him, iv. 184.

Processions-Those in Roman catholic countries not unuseful,
XV. 8.

Profound-In modern poesy, explained and exemplified, xxiii. 28. &c.
The necessity of it physically considered, 32. Is an art, 34. Of
the true genius of it, and by what it is constituted, 35. The several
kinds of genius in it; their marks and character, 41. What it is
when it consists in the thought, 44. What in the circumstances,
47. The principal figures contributing to it, 56. What the ex-
pression must be in it, 70. A project for advancing it, 80.
Progress of Beauty, x. 218. Of Poetry, 222. Of Marriage,

xi. 211.

Project for the Advancement of Religion, iv. 147.

for the universal Benefit of Mankind, iii. 196.

Projectors-An academy of them in Lagado, the capital of Balni-
barbi, established by royal patent, ix. 198. A particular descrip-
tion of it, and the various schemes of the projectors, ibid. Swift's
remarks on their fate, xvii. 159. A project at Laputa for writing
books mechanically [not unuseful in England,] ix. 204. A project
for raising money by a stamp on blistering plasters, xvi. 44. For
discovering the longitude, 66.

Prolocutor That office in Dublin proposed for Dr. Swift, xv. 293.
The reasons why he was willing to accept it, ibid. 295, 297. See
Convocation.

Prologue to a Play for the Benefit of the Weavers, x. 236. Answer
to it, 239. To Mr. Durfey's last Play, xxiv. 17. To Three Hours
after Marriage, 19. For the Players at Dublin, on their being ob-
liged to act as Strollers, x. 233.

Prologues-The invention, or refinement of them, owing to the youn
ger proficients in criticism, iii. 97.

Prometheus-Verses on Wood the patentee, ix. 7.
Prophets-Pretended ones in England, iv. 107.

Providence A disbelief of it how punished in Lilliput, ix. 61. Cavils of
philosophers against, spécious only from the ignorance of the hear

173.

er's, 112. Even storms and tempests an argument for it, xiv.
Proxy-Dr. Evans, bishop of Meath, at his visitation, refuses to ad-
mit a proxy for Dr. Swift, xvi, 251. At the visitation of the chap-
ter of Saint Patrick's by the archbishop of Dublin, a proxy for
the Dean insisted on, xvii. 122. Not complied with by Dr.
Swift, ibid.

Prude-Description of one, viii. 203, 204.

Prussia, the first king of His agents endeavouring to enlist a miller's
son, in the electoral dominion of George I. occasioned a great mis.
understanding between the two crowns, xiii. 99.

Psyche-A poem on, xi. 346.

Public affairs-No state of life requires greater abilities and virtues
than the administration of them, vi. 237. A habit of multiplying
secrets an impediment to the proper management of them, 238. In
the power of a private man, to be useful to the public, xiv. 145; and
often of the meanest, to do mischief to it, ibid. The sin of doing
60, 149.

Public faith-Disadvantage of breaking, xviii. 130.

Pulpits-Of several sorts, iii. 64. When made of rotten wood, a dou-
ble type of a fanatic preacher, 67.

Pulteney, Mr. afterward William, earl of Bath-Verses on his being
put out of Council, xi. 225. His Answer to Sir Robert Walpole,
xiv. 261. A large sum of money left him by Mr. Guy, xvi. 269.
Gives Dr. Swift an account of a humorous treatise composed by Dr.
Arbuthnot upon the scolding of the ancients, xviii 42. Struck_out
of the privy council, 69. His remark on the promotion of Dr. Run-
dle to the see of Derry, xix. 139. On the strength of his own con-
stitution, xx. 77. Purposes to follow Dr. Swift's rules for preser-
vation of his health, 78. A sentence of Tully proposed by him for
the rule of his conduct, ibid. Observations on the state of public
affairs, 256. Sends Dr. Swift a copy of Latin verses, made in com-
pliment to him by a Westminster scholar, 257. How far indebted
to Sir Robert, for his reputation, xiv. 270. Swift bears testimony
to his integrity, vi. 107.

Pullen, Dr. Tobias, bishop of Dromore, xxii. 162,

Punch-A disaffected liquor, xiii. 186. Its inventor, and original
mode of making it, ibid.

Punning-Art of, xxiv. 113. The Original of, x. 273. Verses on the Art
of, 275. Punning Epistle on Poetry, xxiv. 150. God's Revenge
against, 109. A specimen of it. in the name of Tom Ashe, xiii, 299.
What a pun is, xxiii. 61. An if pun, xxii. 210.

Puppet-show-A poem, xi. 160.

Purcell, Henry-Corelli's admiration of him, xx. 84.

Puritans-When they grew popular in England, ii. 320. xiii. 117. The
term changed into presbyterian and dissenter, 118. xiv. 69. Their
joining with the Scotch enthusiasts the principal cause of the Irish
rebellion and massacre, 71.

Putland, John, vi. 160.

Pym, the famous patriot-The name of Roundhead took its rise from
him, iii. 245.

Pythagoras, viii. 182, 214.

Q

Quadrille, Ballad on it, xxiv. 46. New proposal for the better Regulation
and Improvement of, xiii. 263. The universal employment of life
among the polite, xvii. 93. Comically described by Mr. Congreve,
97. Satire on, xix. 271.