monarchy more than
    even the best republic, iv. 149.
  danger of teaching them to think lightly of their engagements
    to their governors, iv. 162.
  the natural control on authority, iv. 164.
  dangerous nature of a power capable of resisting even their
    erroneous choice of an object, vi. 296.
  points on which they are incompetent to give advice to their
    representatives, vii. 74, 75.

Perfection not the cause of beauty, i. 187.

Persecution, religious, an observation of Mr. Bayle concerning it, vi. 333.
  general observations on it, vi. 394.

Persecutor, a violent one, frequently an unbeliever in his own creed,
    vi. 86.

Peshcush, what, x. 171.

Peters, Hugh, remarks on a passage in a sermon of his, iii. 318.

Petition of Right, rests the franchises of the subject not on
    abstract right, but on inheritance, iii. 273.

Philosophical inquiries, how to be conducted, i. 70.
  use of them, i. 72.

Philosophy, Lord Bolingbroke’s, animadversions on it, i. 4.

Physic, the profession of it, in ancient times, annexed to
    the priesthood, vii. 183.

Physiognomy, has a considerable share in the beauty of the
    human species, i. 198.

Pilgrimages of the Middle Ages, benefits of them, vii. 247.

Pitt, Mr., remarks on his conduct in 1784, v. 57.
  his Declaration on the war with the French Republic, v. 278; vi. 21.
  eulogy of it, v. 279, 390; vi. 22.
  and of his speech on that war, v. 390.

Place Bill, proposed remedy for parliamentary disorders, i. 518.

Plagues, in Athens and in London, wickedness remarkably prevalent
    during their continuance, vii. 84.

Pleasure and pain, observations on them, i. 102.
  pleasure, pain, and indifference, their mutual relation,
    as states of the mind, i. 103.

Poetry, more powerful than painting in moving the passions, i. 134.
  does not depend for its effect on raising ideas or sensible
    images of things, i. 246, 255.
  this exemplified, i. 252.
  affects rather by sympathy than imitation, i. 257.
  dramatic poetry strictly imitation, i. 257.
  descriptive poetry operates chiefly by substitution, i. 257.

Poland, character of the revolution there, iv. 195.
  contrasted with the revolution in France, iv. 198.

Policy, a refined one, the parent of confusion, ii. 106.
  inseparable from justice, iii. 438.

Political connection, how regarded by the ancient Romans, i. 528. 
  England governed by one in the reign of Queen Anne, i. 529.
  general observations on, i. 530.

Political economy, had its origin in England, v. 192.

Political system, an unwise or mischievous one not necessarily
    of short duration, iv. 353.

Politician, duties of one, iii. 557, 559.