*1676, ibid.
son of Dr. Stephen Philips, archdeacon of Salop, ibid.
educated at Winchester, where he distinguished himself by the superiority of his exercises, ibid.
became acquainted with the poets very early, ibid.
entered at Oxford, 1694, ibid.
intended for the study of physick, and studied particularly natural history, ibid.
wrote his Splendid Shilling, 1703, 230.
Blenheim, 1705. Cider, 1706. began his Last Day, ibid.
died February 15, 1708, and buried in Hereford cathedral, ibid.
his epitaph at Hereford, ibid.
a monument erected to his memory in Westminster abbey, by sir Simon Harcourt, with the inscription by Dr. Atterbury, 231.
his character, 232.
character of his works, 233.
a copier of the style of Milton, ibid.
account of him by Edmund Smith, 235.
account of his family and brothers, 236.
character of his works, 237.
Philips, John and Edward, (nephews of Milton), some account of them, vii. 66.
Phillips, Mrs. her opinion of some of the writings of lord Roscommon, vii. 171.
her Pompey brought on the Irish stage, 172.
Philomides, his reflections on the excellence and utility of good humour, ii. 339.
Philotryphus, his character, ii. 193.
Physick, mathematicks recommended in the science of Physick, by Boerhaave, vi. 281.
Physicians, a pleasing character of, vii. 402.
proceedings on a plan for attending the poor gratis, vii. ibid.
in a great city the mere plaything of fortune, viii. 474.
have the second claim of benefit to mankind, vi. 278.
Picus of Mirandola, his epitaph, v. 261.
Pilgrimages, inquired into, i. 224.
Pindar, observations on the poetry of, vii. 40.
his odes discovered to be regular by Congreve, viii. 35.
West's translation characterized, viii. 398.
Piozzi, Mrs. select letters of Dr. Johnson from the collection of, i. 311.
Pitt, Christopher, his life, viii. 363.
son of a physician at Blandford, born 1699, viii. ibid.
entered a scholar at Winchester College 1714, removed to New College, 1719, ibid.
translates Lucan before he was twenty years of age, ibid.
presented to the rectory of Pimpern, Dorsetshire, ibid.
translates Vida's art of poetry, ibid.
translates the Æneid, 364.
died 1748, and his epitaph, 365.
Plagiarism, not to be charged upon authors merely for similarity of sentiment, iv. 79.
a charge often unjustly urged to the prejudice of some authors, iii. 178.
some instances of the truth of this remark with regard to some of the classick writers, iii. ibid.
Plantations, considerations on, ix. 136.
Player, requisites to form a good one, vii. 173.
Pleasing others, the art of it a pleasing acquisition, ii. 491.
its excellency should engage us to cultivate it in proportion to its usefulness, 192.
Pleasure, the mind corrupted and debased by the pursuit of immoral, ii. 215.
the gratification of sensual, volatile, ii. 366.
the fatal rock in the ocean of life, ibid.
the variation of, with the seasons, iii. 89.
of contemplation and virtue preferable to that of the senses, 92.
the essence of, consists in choice, iii. 139.
sensitive and animal, derive their agreeableness from novelty, 141.
the danger of pursuing the allurements to, unlawful, 380.
inquiry into the distinction between it and pain, iv. 298.
Pleasures of mankind, generally counterfeit, iv. 202.
seldom such as they appear to others, ibid.
of ladies at a musical performance, ibid.
Plenty, Peter, his complaint of his wife's buying bargains, iv. 252.
Plutarch, sentiment of, upon Aristophanes and Menander, v. 383.
Poemata, Messia, i. 155.
January 20, 21, 1773, 158.
December 25, 1779, 159.
in lecto, die passionis, April 13, 1781, ibid.
in lecto, December 25, 1782, ibid.
nocte, inter 16 et 17 Junii, 1783, ibid. Cal. Jan. in lecto, ante lucem, 1784, 160.
January 18, 1784, ibid.
February 27, 1784, 161.
Christianus perfectus, ibid.
jejunium et cibus, 162.
ad Urbanum, 1738, ibid.
in rivum a mola Stoana Lichfeldiæ diffluentem, 163.
[Greek: Gnothi Seauton], 164.
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