the University
of Vienna against, 84; their excommunications, ib.

PORTA, John Baptiste and John Vincent, found the academy "Degli
Oziosi," ii. 488; Baptiste's mechanical genius, iii. 290.

PORTRAITS, of authors, of celebrated men, i. 42-47; of the Fugger
family, 6; commonly prefixed to ancient manuscripts, 42; collections
of, amongst the ancients, 43; query upon the mode of their
transmission and their correctness, ib.; use of, ib.; anecdotes
relative to the effect of, 45; objections of ingenious men to sit
for, reprobated, 46; Granger's illustrations of, 45; Perrault's
"Eloges" confined to French, ib.; collection by Paulus Jovius, ib.;
doubts as to authenticity of several, ib.; literary, of himself, by
St. Evremond, 102; in minute writing, 275.

PORT ROYAL SOCIETY, the, i. 94; their Logic, or The Art of
Thinking, an admirable work, ib.; account of its rise and progress,
95; many families of rank erected houses there, ib.; persecuted and
destroyed by the Jesuits, 96; their writings fixed the French
language, ib.

POSIES on rings, iii. 39, note.

POVERTY, abridgment of history of, by Morin, i. 198; regulations
regarding, among the Jews, ib.; among the Greeks, Romans, and
Egyptians, 199; uncommon among the ancients, 201; introduction of
hospitals for the relief of, ib.

PRAYER-BOOKS, gross illustrations of, i. 366.

PREACHERS, jocular, i. 251-258.

PREDICTION, political and moral, determined by certain prognostics,
iii. 260; of the Reformation by Cardinal Julian, Sir Thomas More,
and Erasmus, 262; by Sir Walter Rawleigh, 263; of Tacitus, ib.; of
Solon, 264; of Charlemagne, ib.; Cicero's art of, ib.; faculty of,
possessed by Du Vair, 265; principles of, revealed by Aristotle,
266; by Mr. Coleridge, 268; of the French Revolution, 269, 270;
frequently false, 272; anecdotes, 273; of the end of the world, ib.,
note; of the destruction of London in 1750, ib., note; of American
independence, 274; sometimes condemned as false when really
verified, 275; caution to be observed in, 276; instances of, by
Knox, 277; of the death of Henry IV., ib.; reflections on, 278, 279.

PREFACES, frequently superior to the work, i. 71; a volume of,
always kept ready by Cicero, ib.; ought to be dated, 72; anecdote of
Du Clos' to a fairy tale, ii. 340.

PREFERMENT, anecdotes of, ii. 12.

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