Papal power, uniform steadiness of it in the pursuit of its
    ambitious projects, vii. 449.

Papal pretensions, sources of their growth and support, vii. 384.

Papal States, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France,
    iv. 337.

Parliament, remarks on it, i. 491.
  the power of dissolving it, the most critical and delicate
    of all the trusts vested in the crown, ii. 553.
  disadvantages of triennial parliaments, vii. 79.

Parliaments of France, character of them, iii. 505.

Parliament of Paris, observations on its subversion, xii. 396.

Parliamentary disorders, ideas for the cure of them, i. 516.

Parsimony, a leaning towards it in war may be the worst management, i. 310.

Party divisions, inseparable from free government, i. 271.
  definition of the term, party, i. 530.
  evils of party domination, vi. 390.

Passions, all concern either self-preservation or society, i. 110.
  final cause of the difference between those belonging to
    self-preservation and those which regard the society of the sexes,
    i. 113.
  those which belong to self-preservation turn upon pain and danger,
    i. 125.
  nature and objects of those belonging to society, i. 125.
  a control over them necessary to the existence of society, iv. 52.
  strong ones awaken the faculties, v. 287.
  vehement passion not always indicative of an infirm judgment, v. 407.
  mere general truths interfere very little with them, vi. 326.
  passions which interest men in the characters of others, vii. 148.

Pasturage and hunting, weaken men’s ties to any particular
    habitation, vii. 171.

Paulus, observation of his on law, vi. 324.

Peace, requisites of a good one, i. 295.
  the steps taken to bring one about always an augury of what
    it is likely to be, v. 251.
  a ground of peace never laid until it is as good as concluded, v. 260.
  an arrangement of peace in its nature a permanent settlement, v. 349.

Penal statute of William III. against the Papists, repeal of it, ii. 391.

People, accurate idea of the term, iv. 169.
  evils of an abuse of it, iv. 411.
  the temper of the people the first study of a statesman, i. 436.
  in seasons of popular discontent, something generally amiss
    in the government, i. 440.
  the people have no interest in disorder, i. 441.
  generally fifty years behindhand in their politics, i. 442.
  a connection with their interests a necessary qualification
    of a minister, i. 474.
  sense of the people, how to be ascertained by the king, i. 475.
  should show themselves able to protect every representative
    in the performance of his duty, i. 503.
  liberty cannot long exist where they are generally corrupt, ii. 242.
  the people of England love a mitigated