Prescience, advantages of, ix. 149.

Prefter John, great pains taken by the Portuguese for the discovery
of his country, ix. 394.

Prefumption, more easily corrected than pufillanimity, v. 164.

Pride, frequently the effect of hereditary wealth, iii. 294. Generally
the fource of anger, v. 68. Characterized, viii. 121. Its compe-
tition with idleness, 121.

Prints, obfervations on the collectors of, viii. 226.

Printing, Mr. Savage's peculiar attention to correctness in, iii. 286.
By fubfcription, first tried by Addifon's Virgil, iv. 21.

Prior, Matthew, his life, iii. 129. Of obfcure original, by fome fup.
pofed to have been born at Winburne, Dorfet hire; by others to
have been the fon of a Joiner, in London, 129. Educated for fome
time at Westminster, 130. Received his academical education at
Cambridge, at the expence of the Earl of Dorfet, 130. Took his
Bachelor's degree in 1686, and his Master's by mandate, in 1700,
130. Wrote the City Mouse and Country Moufe, 1688, 130. Se-
cretary to the Embafly to the Congrefs at the Hague, 131. Gen-
tleman of the Bed-chamber to King William, 131. Wrote long
Ode on the Death of Queen Mary, 132. Secretary to the Treaty
of Ryfwick, in 1697, 132. Secretary at the Court of France, in
1698, 132.
Under-fecretary of State, 132. Wrote the Carmen
Seculare, in 17c0, 132. Member of Parliament for Eaft Grinstead,
1701, 133. Went to Paris with Propofitions of Peace, in 1711, 135:
Recalled from Paris, Aug. 1715, 138. On his return, taken up and
examined before the Privy-Council, 138. Remained in.confinement
for two years, when he was excepted in an Act of Grace, but foon
after difcharged, 140. Died at Wimpole, Sept. 18, 1721, and bu-
ried at Westminster, 141. Left 500l. for a monument, 141. Copy
of his Epitaph, 141. His character, 143. Character of his writings,
145. Delcribed in the affembly of bards, xi. 173.

Private Vices publick Benefits, how far they may fometimes prove fo,
X. 248.

Procraflination, the danger of, ii. 36.

Prodigality, deftitute of true pleafure, and the fource of real and lasting
mitery, v. 341, 342.

Projects, the folly of, expofed, ix. 14. The folly of, in general, 51.
Projectors characterized, 84. The folly and wickedness of those
who only project the deftruction and mifery of mankind, 84. For
the good of mankind, in fearching out new powers of nature, and
contriving new works of art, ought to be encouraged, 87.
Prologue, at the opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, 1747, xi. 344.
To the Mafque of Comus, 346. To the Good-Natured Man, 347-
To the Word to the Wife, 349.

Pronunciation, difficulties in fettling it, ix. 174.

Properantia, her letter on the alteration of the style, vi. 228.
Projapius, his character, v. 122.

Profperity, often productive of various infelicities, vii. 61. 348.
Obftructs the knowledge of ourfelves, vii. 62. The danger of, xi.
58.

Profpero, his character, vii. 347.

Proffitutes,

Proflitutes, reflections on their infamous and deplorable condition, vi.
230. vii. 185. In what refpects objects of compaffion, vi. 232.
Proverbs, ch. VI. ver. 7-11, paraphrafed, xi. 372.

Prudence, wherein its province lies, vi. 264. Characterised, viii. 228.
exemplified in the character of Sophron, 228.

Prudentius, the motives on which he contracted marriage, v. 118.
Prune, Mrs. her treatment of Leviculus, vii. 247.

Pruffia, King of (the former), characterized, iv. 531. Account of
his Tail Regiment, 532. His difagreement with his Son, 532.
Obliges his Son to marry against his will, 535. Died 1740, 538.
Pruffia, King of (Charles Frederick), his life, iv. 531. Born Jan.
24, 1711-12, 531. Remarkable for his difagreement with his
Father, 531. Defigned to fly his country, but difcovered by his
father, himself arrefted, and his confident executed, 53. Obliged
by his father to marry, but does not confummate during his father's
life, 535. Applies himself to fludy and liberal amusements, 535.
Succeeds to the Crown, 1740, 538. Receives his wife as Queen,
539. Releases the boys marked for military fervice, 540. Con-
tinues his correfpondence with learned men, 540. Governs with
very little minifterial affittance, and banishes the Prime Minister and
favourite of his father, 540. Grants a toleration of Religion and
Free Masonry, 540. Institutes the Order of Merit, 541. Cha-
ritable if not liberal, 541. Advancement of learning one of his first
cares, 541. Revives his claim to Herftal and Hermal, 541. On
the death of the Emperor of Germany, claims Silefia, 543. His
proceedings in the war for Silefia, 543. Makes peace with the
Queen of Hungary, on furrendering to him the half of Silefia, 548.
Obfervations on his Reasons for enacting and repealing Laws, 549.
Account of the Code Frederique, 55c. Epitome of his Plan for the
Reformation of Courts, 550. Proceedings of his army 1742 against
the Auftrians, 555. Is deferted by the French, 559. Makes peace
with the Empress, who furrenders the remaining part of Silefia, 560.
Reforms his laws, and concludes a defenfive alliance with England,
561. Raifes an army under pretence of fixing the Emperor in pof-
feffion of Bohemia, 566. His declaration of reafons for going to
war, 566. The Queen of Hungary's answer to the declaration, 570.
Enters Bohemia with 104,000 men, Aug. 1744, 571. Befieges
and takes Prague, Sept. 1744, 573. Quits Prague, and retires with
his army into Silefia, 575. After feveral engagements, enters Dref
den as a Conqueror, 579.

Pfalmanazar, George, account of him, xi. 206.

Publick Spirit, the duty of, in times of danger, viii. 29.

Punch, the mixture ufed in making it, requifite to converfation, viii. 135.
The ingredients of both compared, 136.

Punishments, capital, the feverity and frequency of them in fome cafes
difapproved, vi. 272. 275. Instead of hindering the commiffion of
the crime, they often prevent the detection of it, 276.

Puritans, their tenets ridiculed, ii. 191.

Puzzle, Will, his ftory, viii. 369.

Pyramids, a vifit to, xi. 87.

Pyramus and Thibe, written by Cowley, when only ten years of age,

Quebec,

ii. 7.

Q.

QUEBEC, Confide
UEBEC, confiderations on the establishment of popery in that

Quibble, the ill use made of it by Shakespeare, viii. 256.

Quick, Molly, her complaint againft her miftrefs for only hinting at
what the wants, viii. 182.

Quick, Ned, ready at finding objections, viii. 348.

Quin, Mr. a fimilar expreffion by him and the Emperor Charles V. iii.
123. His friendship for Thomfon, iv. 172.

Quincunx figures, their excellence, iv. 595.

Quifquilius, his extravagancies in indulging an injudicious curiofity,

vi. 68.

Quixote, Don, the idea of Hudibras taken from it, ii. 184. The cha-
racters compared, 184. Recommended by Dr. Sydenham to young
phyficians, iii. 173.

R.

RAASAY, ifland of, defcribed, x. 384.

Rake, the life of one, ix. 1.8.

Raleigh, Sir Walter, the defects of his Hiftory of the World, vi. 330.
Rambler, his reflections upon a review of his effays, vii. 392.
Ranger, Tim, his hiftory, viii. 248. Tries drefs, the company of
rakes, keeping of race-horfes, and building, but finds no happiness
in any of them, 249. Becomes a fine gentleman, and a collector of
fhells, foffils, &c. hires a French cook, but in all disappointed, 257.
Rape of the Lock, ftory on which it was founded, iv. 16.

Rarities, the choice and ftudy of them fhould be fubfervient to virtue
and the publick good, vi. 71. 73.

Rafchid, his character, a ftriking example of the fatal effects of in-
fatiable avarice, v. 249.

Raffelas, Prince of Abiffinia, the history of, xi. 1. All the princes and
princeffes contined in the happy valley, 2. Account of the palace
in the valley, 2. His difcontent in the happy valley, 4. His
amufement in picturing the diftreffes of life, 11. Meditates his
efcape, 14. His hope of efcaping by flying, 15. His defire to
attain knowledge from Imlac, 21. His refolution to render every
perfon about him happy, 36. The unhappiness of the inhabitants of
the happy valley, 39. Difcovers the means of escape, 41. His
filler Nekayah joins with him and Imlac in leaving the happy valley,
44. Their travels, 47. Their abode at Cairo, 48. Complains
of being more unhappy than thofe about him, 50. Affociates with
young men of fpirit and gaiety, but foon leaves them, 51. Finds a
wife and happy man, 53. Takes a glimpse of paftoral life, 56.
Vifits a perfon in the greatest profperity, 58. Vifits a hermit, 60.
Examines the happiness of high ftations, 67. Vifits the Pyramids,
87.
Vifits the catacombs, 136.
Rats, none in the islands of Sky, x. 417,

Reading

Reading Man characterized, ix, 61.

Reafon, the importance of its keeping a conftant guard over the ima
gination, v. 49.

Ready Man characterized, ix. 64.

Reason, the uncertain continuance of; xi. 121.

Rectitude delineated, viii. 142.

Regimen, rather to be decreased than increafed as men advance in
years, iv. 477.

Regifter, univerfal, of a new kind, to what ufeful purposes it may be
applied, vi. 215.

Regret, fometimes both neceffary and useful, viii. 290.

Reid, Andrew, employed by Lord Lyttelton in the punctuation of his
life of Henry II. iv. 314.

Rebearfal, the character of Bayes defigned for Dryden, ii. 342.
Written by Buckingham, affifted by Butler, Martin Clifford, and
Dr. Sprat, 342. First acted in 1671, 342. The Dialogue between
Love and Honour defigned for the Duke of Ormond, 343.

Relaxation, the neceffity and ufefulness of it with regard to fludy, vi.

109.

Religion, obfervations on the change of, in Scotland, iv. 318. A tole
ration granted in Pruffia, 540. The pleasure and advantages of, v.
282. Its origin and excellency, 284. The fource of the nobleft
and moft refined pleasures, 286. The common objections to a life
of religion, groundlefs and unreafonable, 287. The ufe of au-
fterities and mortifications, vi. 251. The danger of women when
they lay it afide, ix. 3. Confolations to be found in, xi. 341.
Remiffion of Sins, the firft and fundamental truth of religion, vi. 246.
Repentance, the abfurdity of delaying it, vi. 5. The doctrine of it em-
barraffed by fuperftitious and groundless imaginations, 249. Un-
justly confounded with penance, 249. Wherein true repentance
confifts, 249. The completion and fum of it a real change of
temper and life, 251.

Reputation, industry and caution neceffary to fupport it, vi. 372.
Tainted, the greateft calamity, vii. 102.

Refentment, the effects of, more certain than gratitude, iii. 295.
Refolution and firmness of mind, neceflary to the cultivation and increase
of virtue, v. 361.

Refolutions, the fallacious eftimate generally made, viii. 106. Custom
commonly too ftrong for, 107.

Reftlefs, Tom, fhort hiftory of, vii. 193.

Retirement, the difadvantages of it when indulged to excefs by men of
genius and letters, v. 93. Rural, the motives of fome persons to
defire it, vi. 410.

Retrospection on our conduct, the importance and ufefulness of it, v. 5o.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, acquired his fondness for painting from reading
Richardfon's Treatife, ii. 6. Three requests made to him by Dr.
Johnson, xi. 200.

Rhodes, Ifle of, ftory of the dragon which ravaged it, viii. 30.
Rhodoclia, her remarks on the amusements and pleasures of the town,
v. 296.

Richard II. obfervations on Shakespeare's play of, ix. 316.

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Richard

Richard III. obfervations on Shakespeare's play of, ix. 323.
Richardfon's, Samuel, Treatise on Painting, gave the first fondness of
that art to Sir Joshua Reynolds, ii. 6. His character of Lovelace

taken from the Lothario of the Fair Penitent, 30. Characterized as

374.

a writer, 30.
Riches, the folly of purfuing them as the chief end of our being, v.
The true ufe of, vi. 319. The general defire of them
whence it proceeds, 394. The peace of life too often deftroyed by
inceffant and zealous strugglings for them, 385. The arts by which
they are gained frequently irreconcileable with virtue, 386. Not
the caufe of happiness, viii. 248. The general defire for, 292.
Not fo dangerous as formerly, 292. Hope of, more than the en-
joyment, 293. What it is to be rich, 293. Avarice always poor,
293. Story of Tom Tranquil, a rich man, 295. Beft obtained by
filent profit and induftry, 395. Not the caufe of happiness, exem-
plified in the history of Ortogrul of Bafra, 395.

Riches (hereditary), advantages and disadvantages of, ix. 112. The
general ill effects of, xi. 332.

Riding, honours due to the lady who undertook to ride 1000 miles in
Ioco hours, and performed it in about two thirds of the time, viii.
An equeftrian statue propofed to be erected to her memory, 23.
Dificulties refpecting a proper infcription, 23.

21.

Righteousness confidered, viii. 358.

Rrarer, his character, vii. 24.

Rio verde, tranflation of the two firft ftanzas of that fong, xi. 377.
Do better, John Wilmet, Earl of, Life of, ii. 196. Son of Henry,
Fail of Rocheller, 196. Born Apr. 10. 1647, 196. Educated at
Eurford Scool, 195. Entered at Wadham College, 196. Tra
ed into lance and Italy, 196. Entered into the fea fervice, 196.
Early giver to intemperance, 197. Gentleman of the Bed-chamber,
and Comptroller of Woodstock Park, 197. Mentioned by Wood as the
grea et fchober of all the zebility, 198. His favourite authors,
Podeau and Cowley, 158. Purfues a life of drunken gaiety, 198.
Decors acquainted with Dr. Burnet, which produced a total change
of mis manners and opinions, 198. Died at the age of thirty-four,
Julv at, it 30, 198. His charater, 199. Many things imputed
to him which he is fuppoted not to have written, 199. The first
edition of his works printed the year after his death, Antwerp in the
title-pige, 109. Char. &er of his works, 199. His poem on No-
thing criticited, 2.0. His Praite of Satire criticifed, 201. His

Satire againit Man criticifed, 201.
In Etherege's Man of Mode, 204.
rection, 343.

Truly reprefented in Dorimant,
Takes E. Settle under his pro-

Reli's Dictionary of Commerce, Preface to, ix. 422.
Romances, the general defign of them, v. 20.

Thofe of the former

and prefent age compared, 22.
Remans, their donatives rather popular than virtuous, viii. 13. Made
no flanding provifion for the needy, 13. Their history has long
found employment for the ftudious, and amufement for the idle,
. 185. When poor, robbed mankind; when rich, robbed one ano-
ther, 190.

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