ility 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.

Reason, sound, no real virtue without it, iv. 24.
never inconvenient but when it comes to be applied, vi. 326.

Reasoners, men generally the worse reasoners for having been
ministers, i. 338.

Reformation, in government, should be early and temperate, ii. 280.
and slow, iii. 456.
different from change, v. 186.
general observations on it, iii. 455; iv. 111; vi.