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*view of the controversy between Crousaz and Warburton, on the Essay on Man, 202. Crousaz's observations on his opinion of the ruling passion, 203. of whatever is, is right, 205. Messiah, in Latin, i. 155. See Warton.

Popery, causes why many persons embrace it, vii. 279. the Hind and Panther published by Dryden, in defence of popery, 281.

Population, decayed religious houses, or want of them, no evidence of a decreasing population, ix. 61. the flight of every man a loss to the community, and rogues ought rather to be made useful to the society they have injured, than be driven from it, vii. 156.

Portland, earl of, taken up for being concerned in Waller's plot, vii. 191. receives a letter from Waller, advising him to confess, which he rejects, and applies to the lords for redress, ibid. after being examined several times by the lords, is admitted to bail, 193.

Posidippus, his account of human life, iv. 89.

Posterity, a regard for, ironically described, v. 330.

Posthumous works, thoughts on the publication of, iv. 341.

Poverty, the afflictive scenes of it described, ii. 254. the fears of it strongly excite to activity and diligence, 255. the folly of those whose negligence and profusion involve them in the miseries of it, ibid. in what cases they are objects of pity, 256. why its circumstances are so often regarded with contempt, iii. 306. when only to be dreaded, 439. the impropriety of reflecting on persons for it, viii. 138.

Power, the effect of necessity, iii. 114.

Praise; to an old man an empty sound, i. 296. of servants, the highest panegyrick of private virtue, ii. 324. the practice of giving unmerited, censured, iii. 101. the excellency of that which is truly deserved, 144. the integrity and judgment with which it ought to be dispensed, ibid. the love of it engages in a variety of means for attaining it, 275. the general passion for it shown, 397.

Prayer and labour should cooperate, vii. 26.

Prayers by Dr. Johnson, ix. 203.

Precedent, implicit submission to it unreasonable, iii. 138.

Preceptor, (a plan of education), preface to the, v. 231.

Precipitation, often fatal to great designs, ii. 210.

Preferment-hunters, characterized, i. 13.

Presbyterians and independents, account of the disputes between them at Oxford, on the authority of ministers, vi. 421.

Prescience, advantages of, iv. 139.

Prester, John, great pains taken by the Portuguese for the discovery of his country, v. 225.

Presumption, more easily corrected than pusillanimity, ii. 124.

Pride, generally the source of anger, ii. 51. characterized, iv. 239. its competition with idleness, ibid. frequently the effect of hereditary wealth, viii. 138.

Printing, Mr. Savage's peculiar attention to correctness in, viii. 131. by subscription, first tried by Dryden's Virgil, 250.

Prints, observations on the collectors of, iv. 316.

Prior, Matthew, his life, viii. 1 of obscure original, by some supposed to have been born at Winburne, Dorsetshire; by others, to have been the son of a joiner, in London, ibid. educated for some time at Westminster, ibid. received his academical education at Cambridge, at the expense of the earl of Dorset, ibid. took his bachelor's degree in 1686, and his master's by mandate, in 1700, ibid. wrote the City Mouse and Country Mouse, 1688, 2. secretary to the embassy to the congress at the Hague, ibid. gentleman of the bedchamber to king William, 3. wrote a long ode on the death of queen Mary, ibid. secretary to the treaty of Ryswick, in 1697, ibid. secretary at the court of France, in 1698, ibid. under-secretary of state, 4. wrote the Carmen Seculare, in 1700, ibid. member of parliament for East Grinstead, 1701, 5. went to Paris, with propositions of peace, in 1711, 6. recalled from Paris, August, 1714, 8. on his return, taken up and examined before the privy council, ibid. remained in confinement for two years, when he was excepted in Act of Grace, but soon after discharged, 10. died at Wimpole, September*