Phocion. His good offices to the Athenian state,
Phyllis, or the Progress of Love, x, 160.
Physicians. The sensitive soul made a sort of first
minister to the rational by some of the German
physicians, xvi. 43.
Physicians and Civilians. Right of Precedence between
them inquired into, xii. 33.
Pie-powder Courts. What they are, xxiii. 261.
Piety By what means it might be made fashion-
able, iv. 154.
Pilkington (sir Thomas). Thrice lord mayor of Lon
don, x, 150. xviii. 265.
(Mr). Swift's recommendation of him to
Mr. Barber, xviii. 237. 243. 264. Made chaplain
to Mr. Barber when lord mayor, 252; and in that
office got more money than any of his predeces-
sors, xix. 58. His character, xx. 165. Letters
from him to Mr. Bowyer, xviii. 158, 168. 249. 253.
Wrote an infallible scheme to pay the debts of the
nation, which was taken for Swift's, 168.
(Mrs). Her account of Swift, ii. 160.
Her verses on paper, xviii. 271; and on Dr.
Swift's birthday, 272. xi. 342, Her character,
xx, 165.
Plantations. The shameful neglect of religion in
the American, v..216.
Plato. His conduct, when his character was as-
persed, xvii. 184. His idea of happiness was un-
worthy of a philosopher, xiv, 136. Followed mer-
chandise for three years, xvi. 204. His notions
resembled the doctrines of christianity, xiv. 215.
Players. Billet to a company of, vii. 197. Their
character too, contemptuously treated, xxiii. 88.
Playhouse. The fountain of love, wit, dress, and gel-
lantry, viii. 78.
Pleasure: Balanced by an equal degree of pain,
xiv. 164.
Plots. Instructions for discovering them, ix. 211.
Plutarch. Observes, that the disposition of a man's
mind is often better discovered by a small circum-
stance, than by actions of the greatest importance,
xiv. 277.
Poems. On burning a dull one, xi. 118.
Poet, Young. Letter of Advice to a, viii. 58.
Poetry. Progress of, x. 212. A Rhapsody on, xi, 287,
History of, in a punning epistle, xxiv. 145. Art
of Sinking in, xxiii. 27. What kind of it ought to
be preferred, 30. What the effect of epithets
improperly used in it, xi. 291. Mr. Pope's reflec-
tions on its best use, viii. 8. note.
Poets. Verses on two celebrated modern ones, xi. 365.
Have contributed to the spoiling of the English
tongue, vi. 50, Immortalize none but them,
selves, xiv. 164. A good poet can no more do
without a good stock of similes, than a shoemaker
without his lasts, viii. 69. One who is provident
can by no means subsist without a commonplace
book, 71, Number of them in London and its
suburbs, xi. 267.
Polemia (John Bull's eldest daughter). Her charac-
ter, xxiii. 199.
Polidore (sir). What the wrong side of his office,
Polignac (abbé de). His character, vii. 208.
Politeness. When at its greatest height in England
and France, viii. 56.
Politicians. Few of them so useful in a common-
wealth as an honest farmer, xii. 253. A maxim
learned from them, xix. 152. Allegorize all the
animal economy into state affairs, xvi. 43. Se-
crecy one of their most distinguishing qualities,
104. Other requisites to them, ibid. King
France establishes an academy for their instruc-
tion, ibid. A maxim held by them, xix. 152.
Politicks. Reduced to a science by the wits of Eu-
rope, ix. 151. A rule in them among a free
people, ii. 279. Nothing required for a know-
ledge in them but common sense, vi. 231. What
they are, in the common acceptation of the word,
xiv. 172.
An uncontrollable maxim in them,
xiii. 208. One cause of the want of brotherly
love, xiv. 58. In all ages, too little religion
mingled with them, 60. Why all courts are so
full of them, 178. An expression, appropriated'
by the French to beauty, applicable to them, xv.
143. To show ill-will, without power of doing
more, no good policy in a dependent people, 168.
Never made by ministers the subject of conver-
sation, xxii. 198. Specimen of Mr. Gay's in-
tended treatise on them, xvi. 105. Dr. Swift's
creed in them, xviii. 287.
Pomfret. Censured for dulness and vanity, xiv. 176.
Pompey. At his death, made a contemptible figure,
xiv. 225. His degree of fame, viii. 18c.
Poor. Proposal for giving badges to them, xii. 273.
xiii. 261. The only objection made to such a
proposal answered, 263. Industrious poor more
necessary members of the commonwealth than the
rich, xiv. 36. Begging poor mostly become such
by their own idleness, attended with all manner
of vices, 95. 113. No word more abused than it,
95. Enjoy many blessings not common to the
rich and great, 95-100.
Pope (Mr). His character, xi. 129. Wrote his
Dunciad at the request of Dr. Swift, 62. xvii. 204.
xviii. 146. Paper-sparing, xi. 33. Verses to him
while writing the Dunciad, 62. Overturned in
a coach, and much hurt, xvii. 86. 88. 89. 92. 228.
Used to quit his guests soon after supper, xviii.
241. In danger a second time of being drowned,
xx. 55. Swift pushed the subscription for his
Homer, xv. 288. Letters of his secreted, and
afterward published without his consent, xx. 192.
193. Various reading in his Dunciad, 227. Un-
able to bear the sea, 228. His character as a poet,
x. 198. The initial letters in his poems not un-
derstood even by Dr. Swift, xx. 104. Inscription
under his portrait at Oxford, 293. His Windsor
Forest published, and commended, 205.
Lord
Bolingbroke's judgment of his Ethic Essays, xix.
89. His character of Dr. Swift and his writings,
xx. 97. His account of lord Bolingbroke's plan
of life and studies in France, 224. Why the
friendship of young rather than of old people cul-
tivated by him. 227. Gives Dr. Swift an account
of his course of life and amusements, 228. His
resentment against Bentley, xxiv. 30.
Pope (of Rome). His bulls ridiculed, iii. 105.
Form of a general pardon given by him, 107.
Popery.. The run against it after the revolution as just
and reasonable as that against fanaticism after the
restoration, v. 173. Whether the principles of the
whigs or tories are most likely to introduce it,
193. Vain fears of the danger of it excited by
the whigs, viii. 120. The most absurd system of
christianity professed by any nation, xiii. 119.
In a declining state in Ireland, ibid.
Portland (James Bentinck, earl of). Described, un-
der the character of Phocion, ii. 294. His cha-
racter, vi. 163.
Portland (William Bentinck, duke of). His charac-
ter, xix. 92
Portraits (Engraved), might supply the place of me-
dals, viii. 227.
Portugal. Deceived by the false representations of
the whigs, vi, zzo, Two alliances with that
crown, very disadvantageous to England, v. 277
-279. The war in that kingdom entirely aban-
doned by the allies, and left to the charge of the
English, vii. 119. The engagement of the king
of Portugal to raise a number of forces never per-
formed, though the subsidies for them were con-
stantly paid, ibid. 293. These subsidies put an
end to by the earl of Oxford, 294. On which a
duty was demanded by the king on the very
clothes of those soldiers the English sent to de-
fend him, ibid.
Positiveness. A good quality for preachers and ora-
tors, xiv. 164. Positive men the most credulous,
Possessions. Limited in all good commonwealths,
xiv. 166.
Poulet (John, earl of, lord steward), xxi. 191. xxii.
211. His character, vi. 165.
Powel (judge). Character of him, xxi. 254.
the puppet-show man, xi. I 50.
Power. No blessing in itself, xiv. 42. Is danger-
ous in the hands of persons of great abilities,
without the fear of God, 52. Naturally attended
with fear and precaution, xviii. 56. What would
cool the lust of absolute power in princes, xix.
170.
Powers. What those are into which all independent
bodies of men seem naturally to divide, ii. 277.
The balance of power how best conceived, 279.
The errour of those who think it an uncontrollable
maxim that power is safer lodged in many hands
than one, 283. The inilitary ought always to be
in subjection to the civil, v. 63.87. A firm union
in any country may supply the defects of power,
xii. 245:
Praise. What it was originally, and how changed
by the moderns, iii. 56. Like ambergris, xxiii,
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