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 Projects, unsuccessful, in arts, injurious to a country, ii. 22.

Property, passions which prompt mankind to the invasion of, iii. 69; civil government necessary for the production of, ibid.; wealth a source of authority, 71, 231.

Provisions, how far the variations in the price of, affect labor and industry, i. 133, 145, 148; whether cheaper in the metropolis, or in the country villages, 184–185; the prices of, better regulated by competition than by law, 225; a rise in the prices of, must be uniform, to show that it proceeds from a depreciation of the value of silver, 357–358.

Provisors, object of the statute of, in England, iii. 195.

Prussia, mode of assessing the land tax there, iii. 238.

Public works and institutions, how to be maintained, iii, 85–86; equity of tolls for passage over roads, bridges and canals, 87–88; why government ought not to have the management of turnpikes, 91–94; nor of other public works, 97.

Purveyance, a service still exacted in most parts of Europe, ii. 87–88.

of Pennsylvania, inference from their resolution to emancipate all their negro slaves, ii. 82 note.

Quesnay, M., view of his agricultural system of political economy, iii. 22; his doctrine generally subscribed to, 30–31.

Quito, populousness of that city, ii. 313–314.

, rapid progress of the doctrines of, in Germany, iii. 197; in Sweden and Switzerland, 198; in England and Scotland, 199; origin of the Lutheran and Calvinistic sects, ibid.

Regulated companies. See Companies.

Religion, the object of instruction in, iii. 171; advantage the teachers of a new religion enjoy over those of one that is established, 172; origin of persecution for heretical opinions, ibid.; how the zeal of the inferior clergy of the Church of Rome is kept alive, 173; utility of ecclesiastical establishments, 175; how united with the civil power, 176.

Rent, reserved, ought not to consist of money, i. 80; but of corn, 81; of land, constitutes a third part of the price of most kinds of goods, 102; an average rate of, in all countries, and how regulated, 108; makes the first deduction from the produce of labor employed upon land, 121; the terms of, how adjusted between landlord and tenant, 226; is sometimes demanded for what is altogether incapable of human improvement, 227; is paid for, and produced by, land in almost all situations, 230; the general proportion paid for coal mines, 259; and metal mines, 259–260; mines of precious stones frequently yield no rent, 265; how paid in ancient times, 277; is raised, either directly or indirectly, by every improvement in the circumstances of society, 367; gross and net rent distinguished, 395.—How raised