t 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.

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 ab