old age ib. His temper defcribed 145. The capriciousness of for-
tune to him ib. How Lord Oxford's miniftry wrote to him 146.
His illnets and death 108. See Pope.
Petition of the party-writers to the late ministry iii. 156.
Philips, Mr. account of in. 322.
Philofophers opinions cenfured v. 261. Of their pride 263.
Phocion a complete statesman ii. 97.
Phyficians defcribed v. 207, 8. An extraordinary confultation of
four x. 277:
Phyfiognomift, what one pronounced of Socrates v. 272. n.
Pickle, univerfal, Peter's i. 86.
Piftorides, his character iv. 75, 6, 7.
Plantations, the caufe of fo many tranfmigrations thither iv. 299.
The shameful neglect of religion in the plantations iii. 141, 2.
Pleasure of being abused in company with worthy men ix. 364.
Poets follow the court ix. 283. Their ill fuccefs 302.
Polite converfation, the design of that tract ix. 59. n. How collected
60, 1. This treatise complete on the fubject 62. All the wit ge-
nuine and fterling 63. How this treatife may become univerfally
ufeful 64. This treatife is a treasury of useful knowledge ib.
Schools propofed to be fet up for teaching it 65. This treatise to
be used as a pocket-companion 66. Old phrafes preferable to the
new 67. For whom this work is calculated 69. Objections a-
gainst defects anfwered 7:, 2. The two heroes in the dialogues
79. The first dialogue 91 The fecond 136. The third 165.
Political lying, propofals for printing a difcourfe of vii. 10.
Lying.
Politicians, on what occafions they may be useful v. 333.
Politics, a maxim in them not to be controlled iv. 182. Excep-
tions ib. Nothing but common fenfe v. 333. What they have
produced ib. Ever fluctuating ix. 299.
Pope, Mrs. her character x. 9.
Pope, Mr. his character ix. 259. His character as a writer 267. A
contraft between him and Dr. Swift 260. An uninterrupted
friendship between them 161, 2. Of their feparation 163, 4.
Pope's love and memory of Swift 281. Reproves his milanthropy
320. Regrets his departure from England 327. His warm wishes
to him 328. Regrets his fecond departure 341
His high opi-
nion of Bolingbroke and Swift as writers x 118. Wishes to pass
his la: days with Swift 126. His humorous letter on changing his
religion ix. 273. Remarks on his Homer 280. Turns the calum-
nies caft on him into railery 282. Of his enemies and his reli-
gion 284. His intimate companions.304. The manner of his
life and converfation 305. x. 57. His tender conftitution ix. 326.
The various fchemes of his friends and his own 330. Meets with
a fad accident 334 n. A character of his Dunciad 351. His defign
in that poem 356. Contented with his condition x. II. Of his
writing as a wit 23. Of the style of his letters ib. Or his paft
friendships 25. His thoughts of penfion and preferment 26. How
he is affected to the government ib. Of his religion ib. His ac-
count of his mother 32. Out of conceit with the world 35. His
diftafte of party-writings ib. Of his ailments 55. Cautions a-
gainft party-fpirit in writing x.56. Of his poem on the use of riches
76. His care of Mr. Gay's memory and writings 77. Thinks
often of mortality ib. Of the fate of his writings, and the defign
of them 82. Compared to a hermit 85. Of a libel against him ib.
His temper of mind after his mother's death 62. His reflections
on the behaviour of a worthless man 94. Has a watch bequeath-
ed to him by Lord Peterborow 108. His plan for the 2d book of
ethic epiftles, and what retarded the execution of it 114. The u-
tility of his moral writings 122. His account of fome new friends
and what fort they are 124, 5. The prefent circumstances of his
life and his companions 126. Some paffages in his letters objected
to in Ireland 130. Swift's opinion of them 131. His key to the
Rape of the Lock vi. 156. See Key to the Lock. See Swift.
Popery, an humorous propofal for preventing the growth of ii. 63.
Abfurd iv. 184. Ireland not in danger from ib. Whether Eng-
land be in danger from ix. 51. See Diffenters, Papist, Sacramen-
Potterity, Prince, the tale of a tub dedicated to i. 26.
How ufed
by his governor 26. 27. 28. The tale of a tub offered to him as
a fpecimen of learning, politeness, and wit 32.
Power, three forts of ii. 8o, I., What is meant by a balance of
power 83. Whether power is fafer lodged in many hands than
one 85. What requifite to preferve a balance of ib. Of attempts
to break the balance in all nations 87. Whether the legislative
power may be refifted i, 287. Whether the people of a country
have the power of altering the fucceffion 294. See Government.
Preachers, what perfons have been iv. 199.
Predictions for 1708 v. 267. A character of this piece ib. n. See
Partridge.
Prefaces, fpecimens of i"37.
Prerogative, the meaning of that word iii. 274. Lord Bacon's opi-
nion of it 65.
Prefbyterians firft ftyled Puritans iv, 174. afterwards Prefbyterians
185. Wherein they differ from Independents 176. These two
fects called diffenters 177. Of their inftrumentality in reftoring
K. Charles II. ib. Of their oppofition to K. James II. 178.
Of their efpoufing the cause of the Prince of Orange 182. Are
enemies to monarchy 187. 190. Againft liberty of confcience 188.
Of their opinion about the facramental teft 189. Of the difficul
ties they would meet with if the teft were repealed 197. Are ene-
mies to the cftablished church ix. 49. See Diffenters, Papists,
Puritans, Sacramental test.
Prefent, the making of one requires great judgement ix. 338.
Pretender, whether moft oppofed by the Whigs or Tories iii. 122.
The great ufe which the Whigs have always made of him ii. 307.
iii. 20. There are many pretenders to the British crown ii. 161.
Of the danger of the pretender's getting the crown 174. Whether
Q. Anne's minifter's had any defign to bring him in v. 347. Nune
dread him fo much as the English Roman Catholics 348. His
character ib. See Anne, Miniftry.
Pride, the houfe of: the defcription of it, built like a famous modern
ftructure, yet unfinished iii. 178. Human pride cenfured iv.
330. n.
Profund, or Bathos, is the natural tafte of man, and in particular of
the prefent age vi. 72. Its neceffity phyfically confideted 73. That
there is an art in the profund 75. Of the true genius for it, and
by what it is conftituted 76. Of the feveral kinds of geniufes in
it, and maks and characters of each 81. Of the profund, when
it confifts in the thought 84. Of it, confifting in the circumftan-
ces; and of amplification and paraphrafe in general 87. Of imi
tation, and the manner of imitating, 90. Of tropes and figures;
and firft of the variegating, confounding, and reverfing figures 94.
Of the magnifying and diminifling figures 99. Of expreffion, and
the feveral forts of Atyle of the prefent age 106. A project for the
advancement of the bathos 114. How to make dedications, pane-
gyrics, or fatires 117. See Scriblerus.
Prolocutor. See Convocation.
Prostitute, common, story of one iv. 195.
Public affairs, free thoughts on the prefent ftate of v. 332.
Pulpit, an oratorial machine, i. 47. What it is a symbol of 49.
Punning, God's revenge againft vii. 62.
Puritans, what mifchief they have done iv. 200. Are worse than
Papifts ib. See Prefbyterians.
Queen, the behaviour of the Whigs towards her ii. 333. Her royal
benefaction to the church 347. Her numberless virtues iii. 141.
Queensberry, D. of, her beauty celebrated x. 37. Her character 69.
77. See the contents of vol. x.
Quilca, its blunders, deficiencies, &c. x. 316.
Raillery, how received in Athens and England i. 41.
Rape of the Lock, the dangerous tendency of that poem to govern-
ment and religion vi. 156 See Key to the Lock.
Reason not to be too much relied on in religion ii. 10. 11.
Reafons against the bill for viewing drugs vii, 15.
Recorder, the qualifications of one iv. 271.
Reformation, how embraced in England iv. 215.
Reformation of manners, how to be brought about x. 29. 30.
Religion, a project for the advancement of i. 242. Characters of
this piece ib. n. The low ftate of religion in England 245. In
the power of the prince to bring it into credit 248. Of the influence
of example ib. Of reforming the army 251. the universities 253.
the inns of court ib. Of the behaviour of the clergy 254. Of
the justices of peace 257. Of the ftage ib. The neceffity of a re-
formation 259. Of a reformation in London 262. Of the gene-
ral prevalence of fraud 263. Of the penury cf churches 264. Sen-
timents of a Church of England man concerning religion i. 268.
Characters of this piece ib. n. His fentiments as to epifcopacy 272.
rites and ceremonies, &c. 273. toleration 274. the clergy 277.
fchifm 280. Too much ftrefs not to be laid on reafon in religious
matters ii. 1o. 11. The wifhes of men that religion were not
true, a proof of its truth ib. When a reformation ought to be made
in religion iv. 193. What teachers of it ought to be maintained
at the public charge iv. 194. Religion shamefully neglected in the
plantations iii. 141. 2.
Republican politics infinitely difhon urable and mifchievous to this
kingdom ii. 344. The poorness and narrowness of fspirit which is
joined with them 346.
Refistance, whether lawful i. 287. See Government, Power.
Retirement and exercife, thoughts on x. 34.
Revolution, the nature of a thorough one ii. 346. Of revolution-
principles iii. 1, 2. The Whig maxim concerning revolutions ib.
Of the late revolution, and the abdication of James II. i. 291, 2.
Reynard the fox, of the hiftory of i. 54.
Right, hereditary, preferable to election i. 289 Of a kingdom being
a prince's birthright 290. Right may be transferred by the legifla-
tive power 291. Those who, in one fenfe, affirm the Queen's right
to be indefeasible, are guilty of no crime ii. 308.
Robber, a picture of the life of one iv. 276, 7.
Rochefter, E. of, his character iii. 35.
Behaved himself, in K.
James II.'s time, at least as well as the Earl of Godolphin 51
Some particulars of his character 130.
Rome, account of the diffenfions between the patricians and plebei-
ans ii. 100-114. Of the power of the Commons under the kings
101, 2. under the confuls 103, 4. Of the practices of the Grac-
chi 109. Of thofe of Marius, Sylla, Pompey, and Cæfar 110.
Rotundos, what x. 242. n.
Rundle, Dr. his character x. 107.
Sacheverel, Dr. the good confequences of his impeachment iii. 17.
The pious defign of thofe who impeached him for the good of the
church 7. The hopes of the Whigs and Fanatics from it 50.
Sa ramental teft, the defign of the Whigs to abolish it, and how that
hopeful project mifcarried iii. 5. The diffenters arguments for
getting it repealed in Ireland iv. 138. Answered 139. The great
objection against repealing it 140. That the repeal would bring
the Scots into Ireland ib. Introduce diffenters into all offices and
plces 141.
The body of the nation against the repeal 144. An-
fwer to the arguments offered to fhew the advantages of it 145,
&c. The prefbyterians plea of merit for taking the test off con-
fidered 172.
Of their inftrumentality in the restoration of K.
Charles II. 178. Of their fervices against the dangerous defigns
of K. James II. 177. Of their behaviour on rumours of inva-
fions by the pretender 182. The vanity of their applications to get
the test abolished 186. Whether the test be a proftitution of the
facrament 189. The advantages propofed by repealing the test,
confidered 192. The project inconfiftent 194. That it would
open a way to all diffenters to get into offices and places ib.
Would occafion a struggle between thofe of the established church
and the Prefbyterians 196. What difficulties the latter would meet
with 197.
Of the diffenters being difabled to receive church
preferments 199-
-Queries relating to the test 202.——— Reafons
for repealing it in favour of the Catholics 209. See Papifs. See
Prefbyterians
Sacrilege, how accounted of in the church of Rome ix. 34
St. John, Mr. his excellent character iii, 37. See Bolingbroke
Satchels, the fable of the wo v. 263. n.
Satire better received han panegyric i. 41.
Satirits, how they treat the world i. 167
Savoy, D. of, claimed the English crown ii. 161. What he gained
-by the war 172
Schifmatics, whare fuch i. 281
Sciences and arts, from whom firft derived vi. 134.
phers propagated them through different nations 135
Scots nobility, of their number, poverty, &c. ii. 156
Scottish kirk against liberty of confcience iv. 218
Scriblerus, Martinus, his perfon and drefs defcribed vi. 1. Of his
father 6. Of his mother 7. How he was begot 8. The care
taken of him before he was born 9. What prodigies attended his
-birth 10.
His father's fpeech over him at the hour of his birth
13. What befel the fon and his fhield, on the day of the chriften-
ing 15. Of his fuction and nutrition in his infancy 18. Of the
first rudiments of his learning 21. His father's differtation on
play-things 23. In what exercises he was educated 27. &c. How
he became a great critic 47. Of his uncommon practice of
phyfic, and how he applied himself to the diseases of the mind 48.
His prefcription for the cafe of a young nobleman at court 52. How
he endeavoured to find out the feat of the foul, and of his corre
fpondence with Freethinkers 56. Of his fucceffion, and fome
hint of his travels 62. Of his difcoveries and works 63.
-His treatise on the profund, or art of finking in poetry 69. See
Profund
His fpecimen caftigationum in Æneidem vi. 128.
His annus mirabilis vi. 145.
-Specimen of his reports vi. 152
Secrets, political, of v. 334. Whether a reputation of fecr.cy be
of any advantage to a minister 337
Sects, for what reafon tolerated i. 274
Self-love, the motive of human actions x. 255
Seneca's character ix. 325
Senfitive beings, inattention to their felicity reproved v. 7 n.
Servants, directions to ix. 178. to the butler 190. to the cook 201.
to the footman 209. to the coachman 223. to the groom 224. to
fewards 230. to the porter 231. to the chambermaid ib. to the
wait ng maid 236. to the house maid 240. to the dairy-mai 243.
to the childrens maid 214, to the nurse ib. to the laundrefs 245.
to the houfe-keeper ib. to the tutorefs or governefs 246. The du-
ty of fervants at inns 247.
Sheridan, Dr. his character, x. 241. n.
ret, and made his chaplain iv. 83, 4.
Beneficed by Lord Carte-
How he loft his chaplain-
ry x. 180. Directed how to behave on his preferment x. 173, Of
his tranflation of Perfius 197. Had the cacoetbes fcribendi 21. n.
His addrefs to Apollo 242. n. See Swift
Shrewsbury, D. of, his character iii. 36
Sidney, Algernon, his character as a writer ix, 265
Slavery in what it confifts, ii, 312
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