Would rather lose their estates, liberties, religion, and lives, than the pleasure of governing, 438. Could they be the national church, divisions would arise among them, 439. More dangerous than the papists, 408. Their rise in England, v. 292. Little difference between them and the independents, who got the better of them at the time of the grand rebellion, 295-297. Had a good share of preferments during the usurpation, 297. An account of their conduct under James the Second, 298. Style of the Roman catholicks their brethren, 299. Several of them held commissions under king James, against the prince of Orange, 300. Never much loved by king William, though a calvinist, 302. 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, 303, 331. Have never renounced any one principle by which their disloyal predecessors acted, 308. 328. Their preachers, when in power, wrote books against liberty of conscience, 309. Have ever professed a hatred to kingly government, 311. In the fanatick times, professed themselves to be above morality, 317. 339. Gained by the rebellion what the catholicks lost by their loyalty, 337. See Jack.
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A Present. Is a gift to a friend of something he wants, or is fond of, and which cannot be easily got for money, x. 230. xiv. 60.
Press. A bill, intended for its regulation, iv. 160. A clause proposed, that the author of every book, pamphlet, or paper, should be obliged to set his name and place of abode to it, 161. Observations on that clause, and on the liberty of the press, ibid.
Pretender. His legitimacy not suspected in any publick act since the revolution, ii. 373. The great use which the whigs have always made of him, iii. 23. Whether most opposed by whigs or tories, 213. The former whigs great advocates for his illegitimacy, 239. Neither queen Anne nor her ministry had any design to bring him in, iv. 319. 349. Bishop Kennet's reflections on the subject, xix. 22.
Pride. Reflection upon the baseness of it, vi. 356. By what means we might utterly extinguish it, x. 38. What often its composition, xvii. 385.
Prideaux (Dr). The reception he met with from his bookseller, ii. 203.
Princes. The greatest services of little weight with them, when put in the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions, vi. 47. They see by the eyes of ministers, 69. Their manner of rewarding those who have done some great services to them, 232, 233. The example of the best will not reform a corrupt age, ii. 405. How they may best acquire power in a limited monarchy, 420. Those who have been most mysterious in government have least consulted their own quiet, and their people's happiness, iv. 249. Strange there should be so many hopeful princes,
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