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and shameful kings, v. 463. Favourites of dangerous consequence to them, iii. 135. Descend from their dignity, by heading parties, 178. To what those who have been ruined have chiefly owed their misfortunes, 195. When they ought in prudence to receive overtures of a peace, 333. By their education, are usually more defective both in strength and wisdom than thousands of their subjects, x. 34. In countries that pretend to freedom, are subject to those laws which their people have chosen, 36. The best prince, in the opinion of wise men, only the greatest servant in the nation, ibid. Wise princes find it necessary to have war abroad, to keep peace at home, ii. 283. Of all other mortals, princes are the worst educated, iv. 316. A caution to those who seek favour by advising the extension of prerogative, 363. It is their misfortune, that they are obliged to see with other men's eyes, and hear with other men's ears, x. 80.

Prior (Matthew, esq). His Journey to Paris, v. 401. Many subscribers to his works procured by Swift, i. 215. xi. 474. Suspected to be the writer of The Examiner, iii. 111. 148. xiv. 349. Sent as a negotiator to France, xi. 184. iv. 78. His journey which was intended to have been kept secret, discovered at his return, 81. Much liked there, on account of his wit and humour, 237. Lord Bolingbroke's letter to him while in France, xi. 222. Much loved and esteemed by that minister and Mr. Harley, after their misunderstanding with each other, iv. 342. His character, xviii. 232. His verses on Mr. Harley's being stabbed, xviii. 14. 19. Reduced to the necessity of publishing his works by subscription, xi. 460. Much straitened in his circumstances, ibid. Like to be insulted in the street for being supposed the author of the Examiner, xiv. 349. A better courtier than Swift, xv. 74. Made a commissioner of the customs, 252, His character as a poet, xviii. 423.
Privilege of Parliament. Two instances wherein it was absurd, x. 306. 307.
Prize fighting. Its origin in England, ii. 279.
Proby (captain). Accused of an inclination to popery unjustly, xii. 126.
Proby (Thomas, surgeon general of Ireland). The earl of Wharton's treatment of him, v. 355.
Processions. Those in Roman catholick countries not unuseful. xi. 7.
Profound. In modern poesy, explained and exemplified, xvii. 3, &c. The necessity of it physically considered, 7. Is an art, 9. Of the true genius of it, and by what it is constituted, 11. The several kinds of genius in it; their marks and character, 16. What it is when it consists in the thought, 19. What in the circumstances, 22. The principal figures contributing to it, 29. What the expression must be in it, 41. A project for advancing it, 49.
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