O.Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot,295300Oc, language of Provence and neighboring countries, its beauty and richness,308Ochino Bernardo,349; his sermons on fate and free-will translated by Lady Bacon,349Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole,161"Old Bachelor," Congreve's,389Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius,38Old Whig, Addison's,417Oleron,509Oligarchy, characteristics of,181183.Olympic games, Herodotus' history read at,331Oniai. his appearance at Dr. Burney's concerts,257; anecdote about,59Oinichund, his position in India,238; his treachery towards Clive,241249Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert Montgomery's reviewed,199Opinion, public, its power,169Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to take a regular form,433Orange, the Prince of,46; the only hope of his country,51; his success against the French.52; his marriage with the Lady Mary,60Orators, Athenian, essay on,139157; in what spirit "their works should be read,149; causes of their greatness found in their education,149; modern orators address themselves less to the audience than to the reporters,151Oratory, how to be criticised,149; to be estimated on principles different from those applied to other productions,150; its object not truth but persuasion,150; little of it left in modern days,151; effect of the freedom of the press upon it,151; practice and discipline give superiority in, as in the art of war,155; effect of the division of labor upon,154; those desirous of success in, should study Dante next to Demosthenes,78; its necessity to an English statesman,9697363364251253Orestes, the Athenian highwayman,34; note.Doloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concert,256Orme, merits and defects of his work on India,195Ormond, Duke of,108109Orsiui, the Princess,105Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for ignorance and stupidity,343Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with the son and daughter of,1623Osborne, Thomas, the bookseller,131Ossian,77331Ostracism,181182Oswald, James,13Otway,191Overbury, Sir Thomas,426428Ovid, Addison's Notes to the 2d and 3d hooks of his Metamorphoses,328Owen, Mr. Robert,140Oxford,287Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert. Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cambridge in intellectual activity,343344; its disaffection to the House of Hanover,40236; rose into favor with the government under Bute,36P.Painting, correctness in,343; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars,157Paley, Archdeacon,261Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church,122; his reasoning the same as that by which Socrates confuted Aristodemus,303; his views on "the origin of evil,"273276Pallas, the birthplace of Goldsmith,151Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney,271Papacy, its influence,314; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it,315Paper currency, Southey's notions of,151152Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants,362Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Elizabeth,439Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles,343; painting of, by a gifted master,343Paradise Regained, its excellence,219Paris, influence of its opinions among the educated classes in Italy,144Parker, Archbishop,31Parliaments of the15th century, their condition,479Parliament, the, sketch of its proceedings,470540Parliament of James I.,440441Charles I., his first,443444; his second,444445; its dissolution,446; his fifth,401Parliament, effect of the publication of its proceedings,180Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament.Parliamentary government,251253.Parliamentary opposition, its origin,433Parliamentary reform,1312122233237239241410425Parr, Dr.,120Milton, Parties, state of, in the time of Milton,257; in England,171130; analogy in the state of,1704 and182353; mixture of, at George II.'s first levee after Walpole's resignation,5Partridge, his wrangle with Swift,374Party, power of, during the Reformation and the French Revolution,1114; illustrations of the use and the abuse of it,73Pascal, Blaise,105300; was the product of his age,323Patronage of literary men,190; less necessary than formerly,191352; its injurious effects upon style,352353"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Walpole,170179; their remedies for state evils,181183Patriotism, genuine,396Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion,318324Paulet, Sir Amias,354Paulieian theology, its doctrines and prevalence among the Albigenses,309; in Bohemia and the Lower Danube,313Pauson, the Greek painter,30; note.Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon,389390Peel, Sir Robert,420422Peers, new creations of,486; impolicy of limiting the number of,415410Pelham, Henry, his character,189; his death.225Pelhams (the), their ascendency,188; their accession to power,220221; feebleness of the opposition to them,222; see also Newcastle, Duke of.Pembroke College, Oxford, Johnson entered at,174175Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, Pitt entered at,225Péner, M.. translator of the works of Machiavelli,207Peninsular War, Southey's,137Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's,215Pentathlete (a),154People (the), comparison of their condition in the10th and19th centuries,173; their welfare not considered in partition treaties,9192Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance,44; note.Percival, Mr.,411414419Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among the members of the Athenian tribunals,420; the substance but not the manner of his speeches transmitted by Thucydides,152Persecution, religious, in the reign of Elizabeth,439440; its reactionary effect upon churches and thrones,456; in England during the progress of the Reformation,14Personation, Johnson's want of talent for,423Personification, Robert Montgomery's penchant for,207Persuasion, not truth, the object of oratory,150Peshwa, authority and origin of,59Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain,110; his character,110123124; his successes on the northeast coast of Spain,112119; his retirement to Valencia thwarted,123; returns to Valencia as a volunteer,123; his recall to England,123Petiton,452469475Petition of Right, its enactment,445; violation of it,445Petrarch, characteristics of his writings,56578890-96,211; his influence upon Italian literature to Altieri's time unfavorable,59; criticism upon,80-99; his wide celebrity.80; besides Cervantes the only modern writer who has attained an European reputation,80; the source of his popularity to be found in his egotism,8182; and the universal interest felt in his theme,8285365; the first eminent poet wholly devoted to the celebration of love,85; the Provençal poets his masters,85; his fame increased by the inferiority of his imitators,86; but injured by their repetitions of his topics,94; lived the votary of literature,86; and died its martyr,87; his crowning on the Capitol,8687; his private history,87; his inability to present sensible objects to the imagination,89; his genius, and his perversion of it by his conceits,90; paucity of his thoughts,90; his energy of style when lie abandoned amatory composition,91; the defect of his writings, their excessive brilliancy, and want of relief,92; his sonnets,9395; their effect upon the reader's mind,93; the fifth sonnet the perfection of bathos,93; his Latin writings over-estimated by himself and his contemporaries,9596413; his philosophical essays,97; his epistles,98; addressed to the dead and the unborn,99; the first restorer of polite letters into Italy,277Petty, Henry, Lord,296Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness,108112114119Philarehus for Phylarehus,381Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendor of his empire,77Philip III. of Spain, his accession,98; his character,98104; his choice of a wife,105; is obliged to fly from Madrid,118; surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena,119; defeated at Alinenara, and again driven from Madrid,126; forms a close alliance with his late competitor,138; quarrels with France,138; value of his renunciation of the crown of France.139Philip le Bel,312Philip, Duke of Orleans, regent of France,6366; compared with Charles II. of England,6465Philippeaux, Abbe, his account of Addison's mode of life at Blois,339Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling,386; specimen of his poetry in honor of Marlborough,386; the poet of the English vintage,50Philips, Sir Robert,413Phillipps, Ambrose,369Philological studies, tendency of,143; unfavorable to elevated criticism,143Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics,436; its stationary character,441459; its alliance with Christianity,443445; its fall,445446; its merits compared with the Baconian,461462; reason of its barrenness,478479Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system,467Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients,436443; chief peculiarity of Bacon's,435Phrarnichus,133Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of the,250; see also Bunyan.Pilpav, Fables of,188Pindar and the Greek drama,216Horace's comparison of his imitators,362Piozzi,216217Pineus (the),31; note.Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to him,372Pitt, William, (the first). (See Chatham, Earl of.)Pitt, William, (the second.) his birth,221; his precocity,223; his feeble health,224; his early training,224225; entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge,225; his life and studies there,225229; his oratorical exercises,228229; accompanies his father in his last attendance in the House of Peers,223230; called to the bar,230; enters Parliament,230; his first speech,233; his forensic ability,214; declines any post that did not entitle him to a seat in the Cabinet, *235; courts the Ultra-Whigs,236; made Chancellor of the Exchequer,247; denounces the coalition between Fox and North,240; resigns and declines a place at the Treasury Hoard,241; makes a second motion in favor of Parliamentary Reform,241; visits the Continent,242; his great popularity,244244; made First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer,240; his contest with the opposition,247; his increasing popularity in the nation,248; his pecuniary disinterestedness,249257208; reelected to Parliament,24; the greatest subject that England had seen for many generations,250; his peculiar talents,250-257; his oratory,254255128; the correctness of his private life,258; his failure to patronize men of letters and artists,259202; his administration can be divided into equal parts,202; his lirst eight years,202271; his struggle upon the question of the Regency,205207; his popularity,207208; his feelings towards France,270272; his change of views in the latter part of his administration not unnatural,27227445; failure of his administration of military affairs, vi.275,277; his undiminished popularity,277278; his domestic policy,27S,274; his admirable policy respecting Ireland and the Catholic Question,289281; his resignation,281; supports Addington's administration.284; grows cold in his support,285; his quarrel with Addington.287; his great debate with Fox upon the war question,288; his coalition with Fox,236; to:242410191; his second administration,292; his failing health,294; his ill-success in the coalition against Napoleon,294295; his illness increases,295250; his death,297; his funeral,298; his debts paid from the public treasury,298; his neglect of his private finances,298249; his character,299300410411; his admiration for Hastings,107110117; his asperity towards Francis,104; his speech in support of Fox's motion against Hastings,117; his motive,119; his position upon the question of Parliamentary Reform,410Pius V., his bigotry,185; his austerity and zeal,424Pius VI., his captivity and death,440; his funeral rites long withheld,440Plagiarism, effect of, on the reader's mind,94; instances of R. Montgomery's,199202"Plain Dealer," Wycherley's, its appearance and merit,370384; its libertinism,480Plassey, battle of,243246; its effect in England,254Plato, comparison of his views with those of Racon,448404; excelled in the art of dialogue,105Plautus, his Casina,248Plays, English, of the age of Elizabeth,448; rhyme introduced into, to please Charles II.,349; characteristics of Dryden's rhyming,355301Plebeian, Steele's,4Plomer, Sir T., one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial,127Plutarch and the historians of his school,395402; their mental characteristics,395; their ignorance of the nature of real liberty,590; and of true patriotism,397; their injurious influence,348; their bad morality,398; their effect upon Englishmen,400; upon Europeans and especially the French,4004027071; contrasted with Tacitus,409; his evidence of gifts being given to judges in Athens,420; his anecdote of Lysias's speech before the Athenian tribunals,117Poem, imaginary epic, entitled "The Wellingtoniad,"158Poetry, definition of,210; incapable of analysis,325327; character of Southey's,139; character of Robert Montgomery's,199213; wherein that of our tunes differs from that of the last century,337; laws of,340; to:347; unities in,338; its end,338; alleged improvements in since the time of Dryden,348; the interest excited by Byron's,383Dr. Johnson's standard of,416Addison's opinion of Tuscan,361; what excellence in, depends upon,384335; when it begins to decline,337; effects of the cultivation of language upon,337338; of criticism,338; its St. Martin's Summer,339; the imaginative fades into the critical, in all literatures,330372Poets, effect of political transactions upon,62; what is the best education of,73; are bad critics,76327328; must have faith in the creations of their imaginations,328; their creative faculty,354Poland, contest between Protestantism and Catholicism in,326330Pole, Cardinal,8Police, Athenian,34French, secret,119120Politeness, definition of,407Politian, allusion to, i279Political convulsions, effect of, upon works of imagination,62; questions, true method of reasoning upon,4750Polybius,395Pondicherry,212; its occupation by the English,60Poor (the), their condition in the16th and19th centuries,173; in England and on the Continent,179182
Oates, Titus, remarks on his plot,295300
Oc, language of Provence and neighboring countries, its beauty and richness,308
Ochino Bernardo,349; his sermons on fate and free-will translated by Lady Bacon,349
Odd (the), the peculiar province of Horace Walpole,161
"Old Bachelor," Congreve's,389
Old Sarum, its cause pleaded by Junius,38
Old Whig, Addison's,417
Oleron,509
Oligarchy, characteristics of,181183.
Olympic games, Herodotus' history read at,331
Oniai. his appearance at Dr. Burney's concerts,257; anecdote about,59
Oinichund, his position in India,238; his treachery towards Clive,241249
Omnipresence of the Deity, Robert Montgomery's reviewed,199
Opinion, public, its power,169
Opposition, parliamentary, when it began to take a regular form,433
Orange, the Prince of,46; the only hope of his country,51; his success against the French.52; his marriage with the Lady Mary,60
Orators, Athenian, essay on,139157; in what spirit "their works should be read,149; causes of their greatness found in their education,149; modern orators address themselves less to the audience than to the reporters,151
Oratory, how to be criticised,149; to be estimated on principles different from those applied to other productions,150; its object not truth but persuasion,150; little of it left in modern days,151; effect of the freedom of the press upon it,151; practice and discipline give superiority in, as in the art of war,155; effect of the division of labor upon,154; those desirous of success in, should study Dante next to Demosthenes,78; its necessity to an English statesman,9697363364251253
Orestes, the Athenian highwayman,34; note.
Doloff, Count, his appearance at Dr. Burney's concert,256
Orme, merits and defects of his work on India,195
Ormond, Duke of,108109
Orsiui, the Princess,105
Orthodoxy, at one time a synonyme for ignorance and stupidity,343
Osborne, Sir Peter, incident of Temple with the son and daughter of,1623
Osborne, Thomas, the bookseller,131
Ossian,77331
Ostracism,181182
Oswald, James,13
Otway,191
Overbury, Sir Thomas,426428
Ovid, Addison's Notes to the 2d and 3d hooks of his Metamorphoses,328
Owen, Mr. Robert,140
Oxford,287
Oxford, Earl of. See Harley, Robert. Oxford, University of, its inferiority to Cambridge in intellectual activity,343344; its disaffection to the House of Hanover,40236; rose into favor with the government under Bute,36
Painting, correctness in,343; causes of its decline in England after the civil wars,157
Paley, Archdeacon,261Mr. Gladstone's opinion of his defence of the Church,122; his reasoning the same as that by which Socrates confuted Aristodemus,303; his views on "the origin of evil,"273276
Pallas, the birthplace of Goldsmith,151
Paoli, his admiration of Miss Burney,271
Papacy, its influence,314; effect of Luther's public renunciation of communion with it,315
Paper currency, Southey's notions of,151152
Papists, line of demarcation between them and Protestants,362Papists and Puritans, persecution of, by Elizabeth,439
Paradise, picture of, in old Bibles,343; painting of, by a gifted master,343
Paradise Regained, its excellence,219
Paris, influence of its opinions among the educated classes in Italy,144
Parker, Archbishop,31Parliaments of the15th century, their condition,479
Parliament, the, sketch of its proceedings,470540Parliament of James I.,440441Charles I., his first,443444; his second,444445; its dissolution,446; his fifth,401
Parliament, effect of the publication of its proceedings,180Parliament, Long. See Long Parliament.
Parliamentary government,251253.
Parliamentary opposition, its origin,433
Parliamentary reform,1312122233237239241410425
Parr, Dr.,120
Milton, Parties, state of, in the time of Milton,257; in England,171130; analogy in the state of,1704 and182353; mixture of, at George II.'s first levee after Walpole's resignation,5
Partridge, his wrangle with Swift,374
Party, power of, during the Reformation and the French Revolution,1114; illustrations of the use and the abuse of it,73
Pascal, Blaise,105300; was the product of his age,323Patronage of literary men,190; less necessary than formerly,191352; its injurious effects upon style,352353
"Patriots" (the), in opposition to Sir R. Walpole,170179; their remedies for state evils,181183Patriotism, genuine,396
Paul IV., Pope, his zeal and devotion,318324
Paulet, Sir Amias,354
Paulieian theology, its doctrines and prevalence among the Albigenses,309; in Bohemia and the Lower Danube,313
Pauson, the Greek painter,30; note.
Peacham, Rev. Mr., his treatment by Bacon,389390
Peel, Sir Robert,420422
Peers, new creations of,486; impolicy of limiting the number of,415410
Pelham, Henry, his character,189; his death.225
Pelhams (the), their ascendency,188; their accession to power,220221; feebleness of the opposition to them,222; see also Newcastle, Duke of.
Pembroke College, Oxford, Johnson entered at,174175
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, Pitt entered at,225
Péner, M.. translator of the works of Machiavelli,207
Peninsular War, Southey's,137
Penseroso and Allegro, Milton's,215
Pentathlete (a),154
People (the), comparison of their condition in the10th and19th centuries,173; their welfare not considered in partition treaties,9192
Pepys, his praise of the Triple Alliance,44; note.
Percival, Mr.,411414419
Pericles, his distribution of gratuities among the members of the Athenian tribunals,420; the substance but not the manner of his speeches transmitted by Thucydides,152
Persecution, religious, in the reign of Elizabeth,439440; its reactionary effect upon churches and thrones,456; in England during the progress of the Reformation,14
Personation, Johnson's want of talent for,423
Personification, Robert Montgomery's penchant for,207
Persuasion, not truth, the object of oratory,150
Peshwa, authority and origin of,59
Peterborough, Earl of, his expedition to Spain,110; his character,110123124; his successes on the northeast coast of Spain,112119; his retirement to Valencia thwarted,123; returns to Valencia as a volunteer,123; his recall to England,123
Petiton,452469475
Petition of Right, its enactment,445; violation of it,445
Petrarch, characteristics of his writings,56578890-96,211; his influence upon Italian literature to Altieri's time unfavorable,59; criticism upon,80-99; his wide celebrity.80; besides Cervantes the only modern writer who has attained an European reputation,80; the source of his popularity to be found in his egotism,8182; and the universal interest felt in his theme,8285365; the first eminent poet wholly devoted to the celebration of love,85; the Provençal poets his masters,85; his fame increased by the inferiority of his imitators,86; but injured by their repetitions of his topics,94; lived the votary of literature,86; and died its martyr,87; his crowning on the Capitol,8687; his private history,87; his inability to present sensible objects to the imagination,89; his genius, and his perversion of it by his conceits,90; paucity of his thoughts,90; his energy of style when lie abandoned amatory composition,91; the defect of his writings, their excessive brilliancy, and want of relief,92; his sonnets,9395; their effect upon the reader's mind,93; the fifth sonnet the perfection of bathos,93; his Latin writings over-estimated by himself and his contemporaries,9596413; his philosophical essays,97; his epistles,98; addressed to the dead and the unborn,99; the first restorer of polite letters into Italy,277
Petty, Henry, Lord,296
Phalaris, Letters of, controversy upon their merits and genuineness,108112114119
Philarehus for Phylarehus,381
Philip II. of Spain, extent and splendor of his empire,77
Philip III. of Spain, his accession,98; his character,98104; his choice of a wife,105; is obliged to fly from Madrid,118; surrender of his arsenal and ships at Carthagena,119; defeated at Alinenara, and again driven from Madrid,126; forms a close alliance with his late competitor,138; quarrels with France,138; value of his renunciation of the crown of France.139
Philip le Bel,312
Philip, Duke of Orleans, regent of France,6366; compared with Charles II. of England,6465
Philippeaux, Abbe, his account of Addison's mode of life at Blois,339
Philips, John, author of the Splendid Shilling,386; specimen of his poetry in honor of Marlborough,386; the poet of the English vintage,50
Philips, Sir Robert,413
Phillipps, Ambrose,369
Philological studies, tendency of,143; unfavorable to elevated criticism,143
Philosophy, ancient, its characteristics,436; its stationary character,441459; its alliance with Christianity,443445; its fall,445446; its merits compared with the Baconian,461462; reason of its barrenness,478479
Philosophy, moral, its relation to the Baconian system,467
Philosophy, natural, the light in which it was viewed by the ancients,436443; chief peculiarity of Bacon's,435
Phrarnichus,133
Pilgrim's Progress, review of Southey's edition of the,250; see also Bunyan.
Pilpav, Fables of,188
Pindar and the Greek drama,216Horace's comparison of his imitators,362
Piozzi,216217
Pineus (the),31; note.
Pisistratus, Bacon's comparison of Essex to him,372
Pitt, William, (the first). (See Chatham, Earl of.)
Pitt, William, (the second.) his birth,221; his precocity,223; his feeble health,224; his early training,224225; entered at Pembroke Hall, Cambridge,225; his life and studies there,225229; his oratorical exercises,228229; accompanies his father in his last attendance in the House of Peers,223230; called to the bar,230; enters Parliament,230; his first speech,233; his forensic ability,214; declines any post that did not entitle him to a seat in the Cabinet, *235; courts the Ultra-Whigs,236; made Chancellor of the Exchequer,247; denounces the coalition between Fox and North,240; resigns and declines a place at the Treasury Hoard,241; makes a second motion in favor of Parliamentary Reform,241; visits the Continent,242; his great popularity,244244; made First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer,240; his contest with the opposition,247; his increasing popularity in the nation,248; his pecuniary disinterestedness,249257208; reelected to Parliament,24; the greatest subject that England had seen for many generations,250; his peculiar talents,250-257; his oratory,254255128; the correctness of his private life,258; his failure to patronize men of letters and artists,259202; his administration can be divided into equal parts,202; his lirst eight years,202271; his struggle upon the question of the Regency,205207; his popularity,207208; his feelings towards France,270272; his change of views in the latter part of his administration not unnatural,27227445; failure of his administration of military affairs, vi.275,277; his undiminished popularity,277278; his domestic policy,27S,274; his admirable policy respecting Ireland and the Catholic Question,289281; his resignation,281; supports Addington's administration.284; grows cold in his support,285; his quarrel with Addington.287; his great debate with Fox upon the war question,288; his coalition with Fox,236; to:242410191; his second administration,292; his failing health,294; his ill-success in the coalition against Napoleon,294295; his illness increases,295250; his death,297; his funeral,298; his debts paid from the public treasury,298; his neglect of his private finances,298249; his character,299300410411; his admiration for Hastings,107110117; his asperity towards Francis,104; his speech in support of Fox's motion against Hastings,117; his motive,119; his position upon the question of Parliamentary Reform,410
Pius V., his bigotry,185; his austerity and zeal,424
Pius VI., his captivity and death,440; his funeral rites long withheld,440
Plagiarism, effect of, on the reader's mind,94; instances of R. Montgomery's,199202
"Plain Dealer," Wycherley's, its appearance and merit,370384; its libertinism,480
Plassey, battle of,243246; its effect in England,254
Plato, comparison of his views with those of Racon,448404; excelled in the art of dialogue,105
Plautus, his Casina,248
Plays, English, of the age of Elizabeth,448; rhyme introduced into, to please Charles II.,349; characteristics of Dryden's rhyming,355301
Plebeian, Steele's,4
Plomer, Sir T., one of the counsel for Hastings on his trial,127
Plutarch and the historians of his school,395402; their mental characteristics,395; their ignorance of the nature of real liberty,590; and of true patriotism,397; their injurious influence,348; their bad morality,398; their effect upon Englishmen,400; upon Europeans and especially the French,4004027071; contrasted with Tacitus,409; his evidence of gifts being given to judges in Athens,420; his anecdote of Lysias's speech before the Athenian tribunals,117
Poem, imaginary epic, entitled "The Wellingtoniad,"158
Poetry, definition of,210; incapable of analysis,325327; character of Southey's,139; character of Robert Montgomery's,199213; wherein that of our tunes differs from that of the last century,337; laws of,340; to:347; unities in,338; its end,338; alleged improvements in since the time of Dryden,348; the interest excited by Byron's,383Dr. Johnson's standard of,416Addison's opinion of Tuscan,361; what excellence in, depends upon,384335; when it begins to decline,337; effects of the cultivation of language upon,337338; of criticism,338; its St. Martin's Summer,339; the imaginative fades into the critical, in all literatures,330372
Poets, effect of political transactions upon,62; what is the best education of,73; are bad critics,76327328; must have faith in the creations of their imaginations,328; their creative faculty,354
Poland, contest between Protestantism and Catholicism in,326330
Pole, Cardinal,8
Police, Athenian,34French, secret,119120
Politeness, definition of,407
Politian, allusion to, i279
Political convulsions, effect of, upon works of imagination,62; questions, true method of reasoning upon,4750
Polybius,395
Pondicherry,212; its occupation by the English,60
Poor (the), their condition in the16th and19th centuries,173; in England and on the Continent,179182