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Progress of Beauty, vii. 184. Of Marriage, viii. 78. Of Poetry, vii. 187.

Project for the universal Benefit of Mankind, ii. 286.

Projectors. An academy of them in Lagado, the capital of Balnibarbi, established by royal patent, vi. 204. A particular description of it, and the various schemes of the projectors, 206. Swift's remarks on their fate, xii. 258. A project at Laputa for writing books mechanically [not unuseful in England], vi. 211. A project for raising money by a stamp on blistering plasters, xi. 343. For discovering the longitude, 367.

Prolocutor. That office in Dublin proposed for Dr. Swift, xi. 282. The reasons why he was willing to accept it, ibid, 285. 286. See Convocation.

Prologue to a Play for the Benefit of the Weavers, vii. 198. Answer to it, xviii. 430. To Mr. Durfey's last Play, xvii. 405. To Three Hours after Marriage, 406. For the Players at Dublin, on their being obliged to act as Strollers, xviii. 428.

Prologues. The invention, or refinement, of them owing to the younger proficients in criticism, ii. 110.

Prometheus. Verses on Wood the patentee, xviii. 434.

Prophets. Pretended ones in England, v. 18.

Providence. A disbelief of it how punished in Lilliput, vi. 55. Cavils of philosophers against, specious only from the ignorance of the hearers, 111. Even storms and tempests an argument for it, v. 461.

Proxy. Dr. Evans bishop of Meath, at his visitation, refuses to admit a proxy for Dr Swift, xii. 53. At the visitation of the chapter of Saint Patrick's by the archbishop of Dublin, a proxy for the dean insisted on, 230. Not complied with by Dr. Swift, 231.

Prude. Description of one, v. 182, 183.

Prussia (the first king of). His agents endeavouring to enlist a miller's son, in the electoral dominion of George I, occasioned a great misunderstanding between the two crowns, ix. 326.

Psyche. A poem on, viii. 204.

Publick affairs. No state of life requires greater abilities and virtues than the administration of them, iv. 253. A habit of multiplying secrets an impediment to the proper management of them, 254. In the power of a private man, to be useful to the publick, x. 151; and often of the meanest, to do mischief to it, 152. The sin of doing so, 156.

Publick faith. Disadvantage of breaking, xix. 72.

Pulpits. Of several sorts, ii. 73. When made of rotten wood, a double type of a fanatick preacher, 76.

Pulteney, (Mr. afterward William, earl of Bath). Verses on his being put out of Council, viii. 92. His Answer to Sir Robert Walpole, xvi. 292. A large sum of money left him by Mr. Guy, xii. 73. Gives Dr. Swift an account of a humorous treatise composed by Dr. Arbuthnot upon the scolding of the ancients, xii. 380. His remark on the promotion of Dr. Rundle to the see of Derry, xiii. 170. On the strength of his own constitu-