Politics, ought to be adjusted to, human nature, i. 398.
  different in different ages, i. 442.
  unsuitable to the pulpit, iii. 246.

Polybius, anecdote concerning him, iv. 285.

Poor, the laboring, their poverty owing to their numbers, v. 134.
  proper compassion for them, v. 135, 466.

Poorunder, treaty of, broken by Mr. Hastings, xii. 382.

Pope, the, his dispute with Henry I., vii. 384.
  his pretext for giving Henry II. a commission to conquer
    Ireland, vii. 413.
  his excommunication of King John, vii. 449.
  treatment of him by the French Revolutionists, v. 418.

Popery Laws, Tract on the, vi. 299.

Popular election, a mighty evil, vii. 72.

Popular opinion, an equivocal test of merit, v. 183.

Population, rapid increase of it in America, ii. 110.
  state of it, a standard by which, to estimate the effects
    of a government on any country, iii. 400.
  view of that of France, at different periods, iii. 400.
  comparative effects of peace and war on it, as regards the
    higher classes, v. 472.

Power, all sublimity some modification of it, i. 138.
  incompatible with credit, i. 368.
  the civil power, when it calls in the aid of the military,
    perishes by the assistance it receives, i. 484.
  arbitrary power steals upon a people by being rarely exercised, ii. 201.
  persons possessed of power ought to have a strong sense of
    religion, iii. 354.
  the ability to use it for the great and lasting benefit of
    a country a test of statesmanship, iii. 441.
  not willingly abandoned by its possessors, iv. 11.
  dissensions in the commonwealth mostly concerning the hands
    in which it is to be placed, iv. 163.
  necessity of teaching men to restrain the immoderate exercise
    and inordinate desire of it, iv. 163.
  active power never willingly placed by legislators in the hands
    of the multitude, iv. 164.
  danger of a resumption of delegated power by the people, iv. 168.
  does not always accompany property, iv. 349.
  the possession of it discovers a man’s true character, v. 362.
  men will incur the greatest risks for the sake of it, vii. 82.
  originates from God alone, ix. 456.
  the supreme power in every constitution must be absolute, ix. 460.
  ends to which a superintending, controlling power ought to
    be directed, xi. 417.

Prejudice, cannot be created, vi. 368.

Prerogative, remarks on the exercise of it, ii. 225.

Presbyterianism, remarks on it, iv. 452.

Prescription, part of the law of Nature, iii. 433.
  the most solid of all titles, and the most recognized in
    jurisprudence, vi. 412; vii. 94.

Present State of Affairs, Heads for Consideration on the, iv. 379.

Price, Dr. Richard, observations on his sermon on the Love of
    our Country, iii. 244, 301, 304, 316.