Price of commodities, how raised, v. 142.
  danger of attempting to raise it by authority, v. 143.

Primogeniture, right of, operation of the Popery Laws in taking
    it away, vi. 302.

Principal of a debt, cannot distress a nation, i. 329.

Principalities, the, proposal to unite them to the crown, ii. 298.

Privations, all general ones great, i. 146.

Profit, an honorable and fair one, the best security against
    avarice and rapacity, ii. 335.

Projects, new, requirements of men of sense with respect to them, i. 367.

Property, ought greatly to predominate over ability in the
    representation, iii. 298.
  importance of the power of perpetuating it in families, iii. 298.
  not always accompanied with power, iv. 349.

Proportion, what, i. 166.
  not the cause of beauty in vegetables, i. 166.
  nor in animals, i. 170.
  nor in the human species, i. 172.
  whence the idea of proportion, as the principal component
    of beauty, arose, i. 178.

Prosperity, discovers the real character of a man, iv. 22.
  a prejudice in favor of it, however obtained, iv. 425.

Protestant, the state so declared at the Revolution, with a
    qualification, iv. 257.

Protestant ascendency, observations on, vi. 391.

Protestant Association, the, animadversions on it, ii. 389, 415.

Protestantism, at no period established, undefined, in England, iv. 258.

Protestants, errors of the early, ii. 390.
  misconduct of those in the South of France at the Revolution, iv. 452.

Provisions, trade of, danger of tampering with it, v. 133.

Prudence, the first in rank of the political and moral virtues, iv. 81.
  its decisions differ from those of judicature, iv. 251.
  its rules and definitions rarely exact, never universal, v. 241.

Psalms, and Prophets, crowded with instances of the introduction of the
    terrible in Nature to heighten the awe of the Divine presence, i. 144.

Public affairs, state of them previous to the formation of the
    Rockingham administration, i. 381.

Public men, not all equally corrupt, ii. 240.

Public service, means of rewarding it necessary in every state, ii. 330.

Punishment, considerations necessary to be observed in inflicting
    it, iv. 466; vi. 245.
  under the Saxon laws, extremely moderate, vii. 321.

Purveyance and receipt in kind, what, ii. 306.
  taken away by the 12th Charles II., ii. 306.
  revived the next year, ii. 306.

Pythagoras, his discipline contrasted with that of Socrates, vii. 179.
  why silence enjoined by him, vii. 179.

Raimond, Count of Toulouse, engages in the Crusade, vii. 372.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, abusive epithet applied to him by Lord Coke, xi. 175.