Prometheus. Verses on Wood the patentee, xi. 7.
Prophets. Pretended ones in England, iv. 108.
Providence. A disbelief of it how punished in Lil-
liput, ix. 61. Cavils of philosophers against, spe-
cious only from the ignorance of the hearers, 113.
Even storms and tempests an argument for it, xiv.
171.
Proxy. Dr. Evans bishop of Meath, at his visitation,
refuses to admit a proxy for Dr. Swift, xvi. 238.
At the visitation of the chapter of Saint Patrick's
by the archbishop of Dublin, a proxy for the Dean
insisted on, xvii. 121. Not complied with by Dr.
Swift, 122.
Prude. Description of one, viii. 202. 203.
Prussia (the first king of). His agents endeavour-
ing to enlist a miller's son, in the electoral domi-
nion of George I, occasioned a great misunder-
standing between the two crowns, xiii. 94
Psyche. A poem on, xi. 323.
Publick affairs. No state of life requires greater abi-
lities and virtues than the administration of them,
vi.
1.235. A habit of multiplying secrets an impe-
diment to the proper management of them, ibid.
In the power of a private man, to be useful to the
publick, xiv. 144; and often of the meanest, to
do mischief to it, 145. The sin of doing so, 149.
Publick faith. Disadvantage of breaking, xviii. 175.
Pulpits. Of several sorts, iii. 64. When made of
rotten wood, a double type of a fanatick preacher,
67.
Pulteney, (Mr. afterward William, earl of Bath).
Verses on his being put out of Council, xi. 209. His
Answer to Sir Robert Walpole, xiv. 258. A large
sum of money left him by Mr. Guy, xvi. 256.
Gives Dr. Swift an account of a humorous treatise
composed by Dr. Arbuthnot upon the scolding of
the ancients, xviii. go. Struck out of the privy-
council, 116. His remark on the promotion of
Dr. Rundle to the see of Derry, xix. 143. On the
strength of his own constitution, xx. 78. Pur-
poses to follow Dr. Swift's rules for preservation
of his health, 79. A sentence of Tully proposed
by him for the rule of his conduct, ibid. Obser-
vations on the state of publick affairs, 253. Sends
Dr. Swift a copy of Latin verses, made in com-
pliment to him by a Westminster scholar, 254.
How far indebted to sir Robert, for his reputa-
tion, xiv. 267. Swift bears testimony to his in-
tegrity, vi. 105.
Pullen (Dr. Tobias, bishop of Dromore), xxii. 162.
Punch. A disaffected liquor, xiii. 178. Its inven-
tor and original mode of making it, 179.
Punning. Art of, xxiv. 109. The Original of, x.
260. Verses on the Art of, 262. Punning Epistle
on Poetry, 145. God's Revenge against, 105. A
specimen of it, in the name of Tom Ashe, xiii.
285. What a pun is, xxiii. 59. An if pun,
xxii. 209.
Puppet-show. A poem, xi. 149.
Purcell (Henry). Corellis admiration of him, xx.
85.
Puritans. When they grew popular in England,
ii. 321. xiii. 110. The term changed into pres-
byterian and dissenter, 11. xiv. 69. Their join-
ing with the Scotch enthusiasts the principal cause
of the Irish rebellion and massacre, 71.
Putland (John), vi. 158.
Pym (the famous patriot).
head took its rise from him, iii. 245.
Pythagoras, viii. 182. 214.
Quadrille. Ballad on it, xxiv. 45. New Proposal for
the better Regulation and Improvement of, xiii. 252.
The universal employment of life among the po-
lite, xvii. 93. Comically described by Mr. Con-
greve, 97. Satire on, xix. 280.
Quakers. The origin of their doctrine, vii. 144.
The reason of their procuring their solemn affir-
mation to be accepted instead of an oath, ibid.
The lawfulness of taking oaths and wearing car-
nal weapons may possibly be some time re-
vealed to them, as a very shrewd Quaker once
suggested to the Dean, xiii. 219. Thank the
duke of Ormond, for his kindness to their friends
in Ireland, xxii. 57. Oppose the bill for recover-
ing tithes in that kingdom, xv. 178 A Quaker
pastoral written by Mr. Rooke, and an eclogue
by Mr. Gay, xiv. 220. A letter and present from
an unknown Quaker in Philadelphia to the Dean,
xviii. 27.
Qualification Bill.
The advantage of it to the
Qualifications. Of a rake, iii. 77. Of a writer,
viii. 185.
Queen. See Anne, Caroline, Mary.
Queensberry (James Douglas, duke of, secretary of
state for the business of Scotland, created duke of
Dover, May 26, 1708), xv. 163.
(duke and duchess of). Their kindness
and friendship to Mr. Gay, xviii. 21. Character
of him by the duchess, 289. Her reflections upon
friendship, 290. Gives a fine sketch of true
greatness of mind, 304.305. A description of
occurrences in their journey to the Spa, xix) 53.
Quidnunckis. On the death of the duke-regent of
France, xxiv. 56.
Quiet Life and a good Name, x. 304.
Quilca. Blunders, Deficiencies, &c. of, xii. 81.
Quillet. His character of England, iv. 219.
Rabelais. An idle sebeme of his, xiii. 7.
Raby (lord). See Strafford..
Rackstraw (Mr). the statuary. Some account of
him, xx. 234.
Radcliffe (Dr). How represented in Martinus Scri-
blerus's map of diseases, xvi. 42. Sent for, in the
queen's last illness, but declined attending, 79.
Remarks on his conduct, its motives, and conse-
quences, 79-81. From what motive he took
particular care to save lord chief justice Holt's
wife, xviii. 25.
Raillery. When not corrupted, the finest part of
conversation, viii. 52. The difference between the
English and French sense of the word. ibid. A
species of it introduced by Oliver Cromwell, 53.
In England, safer to make use of it with a great
minister or a duchess, than in Ireland with an at-
torney or his wife, xv. 147. Swift's talent, but a
bar to his preferment, xviii. 145.
Rake. Qualifications of one, iii. 77.
Ralph bishop of Durham, (a chief instrument of op-
pression under William I. and II). Imprisoned
by Henry the First, vii. 248. Escaping from pri-
son, fled to duke Robert, whom he stirred up to
renew his pretensions to the English crown, ibid.
Ramsay (chevalier). Sends Dr. Swift his history of
the marshal de Turenne, xx. 150.
Ranelagh (lord). See Jones.
Rape of the Lock. Its political key, xxiii. 123.
Raphoe. What the yearly value of its bishoprick,
Rapin. His history, wherein defective, xx. 48.
Ratcliff (captain). The inventor of punch, xiii.
Raymond (Dr). Presented by Dr. Swift to lord Whar
tom, xxi. 5.
Read (sir William). A famous quack, xxi. 192.
Raders. Three classes of them described, iii. 165.
Reason. The corruption of it worse than brutality,
ix. 276. The use made of it tends only to aggra-
vate our natural corruptions, and to acquire new
ones, 289. Among the Houyhnhnms, not opinion,
but always conviction, 300. Things may be above
it, without being contrary to it, xiv. 27. Though
designed by Providence to govern our passions,
yet in two points of the greatest moment God has
intended it should submit to them, 160. The
wisdom of God, and the madness of man unac-
countable to reason, and not the object of it, xxiii.
358. Wherein that faculty consists, xvii. 17.
Rebus. By Vanessa, x. 144. Answer by the Dean,
ibid.
Receipt. To boil oysters, xxii. 93. For stewing veal,
xvii. 94. For the cure of giddiness, xix. 278.
Rechteren (count). His character, vii. 201.
Recipe, or nostrum, for procuring an universal sys-
tem, in a small volume, of all things to be known,
believed, imagined, or practised in life, iii. 117.
Reckoning. That of a Dutch landlord humorously
censured, xii. 169.
Recorder (of the city of Dublin). His requisite qua-
lifications, xiii. 246.
Reformation, Transubstantiation, and communion in
one kind, principal occasions of it, iii. 112. Alle-
gorical account of it, 123. Owed nothing to the
good intentions of Henry VIII, viii. 117. 118.
The popish bishops at that time, apprehensive of
ejectments, let long leases, xii. 62. Received in
the most regular way in England, xiii. 229. Pres-
byterian reformation founded upon rebellion,
230.
Regulus. An instance of his high sense of honour,
xiv. 223.
Rehearsal. Runs to the opposite extreme of the Re-
view and Observator, v. 25.
Relations. Quarrels among them harder to reconcile
than any other, xxiii. 213.
Religion. Project for the Advancement of, iv. 147.
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