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POPE, quotations, Dunciad, i. 41, iv. 189, n. 1; i. 87, iii. 76, n. 1; i. 141, i. 55, n. 2; i. 253, ii. 321, n. 1; (first edition) iii. 149, v. 419, n. 2; iii. 325, i. 227, n. 4; iv. 90, i. 266, n. 1; iv. 111, v. 95, n. 2; iv. 167, iii. 182, n. 1; iv. 249, v. 219, n. 2; iv. 342, iii. 199, n. 2; Eloisa to Abelard, i. 38, i. 272; i. 134, v. 325, n. 2; Epitaph on Craggs, iv. 445; Essay on Criticism, i. 66, iii. 72; i. 297, v. 32, n. 3; i. 370, v. 290, n. 3; Essay on Man, i. 99, iii. 98, n. 2; i. 221, iv. 373, n. 2; ii. 20, iii. 80, 253, n. 3; ii. l0, i. 202; iii. 3, iv. 270, n. 2; iv. 57, ii. 9, n. 1 iv. 219, v. 83, n. 2; iv. 267, iii. 82, n. 2; iv. 380, iii. 342; iv. 383, iii. 19; n. l; iv. 390, iv. 420; Moral Essays, i. 69, i. 3; i. 174, iv. 316, n. 2; ii. 275, i. 249; iii. 25, iii. 346, n. 3; iii. 242, i. 481; iii. 392, i. 375, n. 2; Prologue to Addison’s Cato, i. 30; Satires, Prologue, l. 99, i. 318; l. 135, i. 251, n. 2; l. 247, i. 227, n. 4; l. 259, ii. 368, n. 1; l. 283, iii. 328; l. 350, v. 415, n. 4; 1. 378, ii. 229, n. 1; Satires, Epilogue, i. 29, iii. 57, n. 2; iv. 364, n. 1; i. 131, iv. 9, n. 5; i. 135, iii. 48, n. 2; ii. 70, i. 508; ii. 283, n. 1; iv. 29, n. 1; ii. 208, iii. 380, n. 1; Imitations of Horace, Epistles, i. vi. 3, ii. 158, n. 2; i. vi. 120, ii. 211, n. 4; i. vi. 126, iii. 386, n. 4; ii. i. 14, v. 372, n. 2; ii. i. 71, i. 118; ii. i. 75, iv. 102, n. 2; ii. i. 180, iii. 389, n. 5; ii. i. 221, ii. 132, n. 2; ii. ii. 23, iii. 237, n. 2; ii. ii. 78, v. 265, n. 1; ii. ii. 157, i. 220; ii. ii. 276, i. 127, n. 4; Satires, ii. i. 67, iii. 91, n. 6; ii. i. 78, iv. 318, n. 2; ii. ii. 3, i. 105, n. 1; Universal Prayer, iii. 346. POPE, Mrs., i. 499, n. 1. POPE, Dr. Walter, iv. 19. POPERY. See ROMAN CATHOLICS. POPULAR ELECTIONS, of the clergy, ii. 149. POPULATION, America, increase in, ii. 314; changes in density, ii. 101-2; comparative population of counties in 1756, i. 307, n. 4; emigration, how far affected by, iii. 232-3; high convenience where it is large, v. 27. PORSON, Richard, Bentley not a Scotchman, ii. 363, n. 4; described by Dr. Parr, iv. 385, n. 2; Hawkins, Sir J., ridicules, i. 224, n. 1; ii. 57, n. 5; iv. 370, n. 5; natural abilities, ii. 437, n. 2. PORT, family of, iii. 187. PORT, liquor for men, iii. 381; iv. 79. PORT ELIOT, iv. 334. PORTER, Endymion, v. 137, n. 4. PORTER, Henry (Mrs. Johnson’s first husband), Birmingham mercer, i. 86; family registry of births, &c., i. 94, n. 3; insolvency, i. 95, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 77. PORTER, Captain (Henry Porter’s son), i. 94, n. 3; ii. 462. PORTER, —— (Henry Porter’s son), ii. 388; iv. 89; death, iv. 256. PORTER, Sir James, iii. 402. PORTER, Mrs. (afterwards Mrs. Johnson). See under JOHNSON, Mrs. PORTER, Mrs., the actress, i. 369, 382; iv. 243; ib., n. 6. PORTER, Miss Lucy (Henry Porter’s daughter and Johnson’s stepdaughter), birth, i. 94, n. 3; Boswell calls on her, ii. 462; iii. 412, 414; Dodd’s Convicts Address, reads, iii. 141, n. 2; fortune, her, and house, ii. 462; Johnson’s account of her, i. 370; earlier letters to her, ii. 387, n. 3 (for his letters, See under JOHNSON, letters); feelings towards her, i. 515; ii. 462, n. 1; her feelings towards, ii. 462, 469; memory, i. 40; personal appearance, i. 94; present to her of a box, ii. 387; prologue to Kelly’s comedy, disowns, iii. 114, n. 1; will, not in, iv. 402, n. 2; mother’s wedding-ring, does not value her, i. 237; residence in Lichfield, i. 110, 346, n. 1, 347, 515; verses said to be addressed to her, i. 92, n. 2; mentioned, i. 103, 340, n. 1, 512; ii. 468; iii. 132, 417; iv. 374, 394. PORTER, A STREET-, Johnson drives a load off his back, iv. 71. PORTER, Johnson sends a present of, ii. 272, 275. PORTEUS, Beilby, Bishop of Chester (afterwards of London), Boswell, attentive to, iii. 413, 415; Jenyns’s, Soame, conversion, i. 316, n. 2; Life of Secker, iv. 29; reverend fops, iv. 76; Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280. PORTLAND, third Duke of, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3. See COALITION MINISTRY. PORTLAND, Dowager Duchess of, iii. 425. PORTMORE, Lord, Johnson’s letter to him, iv. 268, n. 1. PORTRAITS, their chief excellence, v. 219; portrait-painting, improper for women, ii. 362; of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, portraits. PORTUGAL, iii. 23, 445. PORTUGAL PIECES, iv. 104. PORTUGUESE, discovery of the Indies, i. 455; n. 3; ii. 479; iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 12, n. 2. POSSIBILITIES, v. 46. POST, Brighton, to, iii. 92, n. 3; double letters, i. 283, n. 1; franking letters, iii. 364; iv. 361, n. 3; penny-post, i. 121, 151; postage from Lisbon, iii. 23; to Oxford, i. 283, n. 1. POST-CHAISE, driving from, or to something, iii. 5, 457; Gibbon delights in them, ii. 453, n. 1; also Johnson, ii. 453; if accompanied by a pretty woman, iii. 162; in 1758, v. 56, n. 2. POST-HORSES, charge per mile, v. 427. POSTERITY, prescribing rules to, ii. 417. POT, Mr., iv. 5, n. 1. POTT, Rev. Archdeacon, ii. 459. POTT, Mr., a surgeon, iv. 239. POTTER, Robert, translation of Aeschylus, iii. 256. POVERTY, ‘All this excludes but one evil — poverty,’ iii. 160; arguments for it, i. 441; a great evil, iv. 149, 152, 155, 157, 163, 351. POWELL, a clerk, iv. 223, n. 3. POWER, all power desirable, ii. 357; despotic, iii. 283; of the Crown, ii. 170. POWERSCOURT, Lord, v. 253. PRACTICE. See PRINCIPLES. PRAGUE, iii. 458. PRAISE, on compulsion, ii. 51; extravagant, iii. 225; iv. 82; value of it, iv. 32, 255, n. 2. PRATT, Chief Justice. See CAMDEN, Lord. PRAYER, arguments against it, v. 38; dead, for the, ii. 163; efficacy, its, v. 68; family prayer, v. 121; form of prayer, v. 365; Hume on Leechman’s doctrine, v. 68, n. 4; Johnson designs a Book of Prayers, iv. 293, 376; offered a large sum for one, iv. 410; lies in prayers, iv. 295; reasoning on its nature unprofitable, ii. 178. PRAYERS, by Johnson, against inquisitive and perplexing thoughts, iv. 370, n. 3; before his last communion, iv. 416-7; before study, iii. 90; before the study of law, i. 489; Chambers, Catherine, for, ii. 43; death of his wife, on the, i. 235; Dictionary, on beginning vol. ii. of his, i. 255; Easter Day, 1777, iii. 99; engaging in Politicks with H —— , i. 489; forgiveness for neglect of duties in married life, i. 240; January 1, 1753, i. 251; new scheme of life, i. 350; ‘On my return to life,’ i. 234, n. 2; Rambler, before the, i. 202; repentance and pardon, for, iv. 397; resolutions, on, i. 483; study of philosophy, on the, i. 302; Trinity, the, invoked, ii. 255. Prayers and Meditations, Johnson’s, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476; publication, iv. 376, n. 4. PREACHERS, women, i. 463. PREACHING, above the capacity of the congregation, iv. 185; plain language needed, i. 459; ii. 123. Preceptor, The, i. 192. PRECISENESS, iv. 89. PRECOCITY, ii. 408. PREDESTINATION, ii. 104. PREFACES, Johnson’s talent for, i. 292. PREMIER, i. 295, n. 1. PREMIUM-SCHEME, i. 318. PRENDERGAST (Prendergrass), an officer, ii. 182, 183, n. 1. Presbyterian, in the sense of Unitarian, ii. 408, n. 1. PRESBYTERIANS AND PRESBYTERIANISM, compared with Church of Rome, ii. 103; differ from it chiefly in forms, ii. 150; doctrine, ii. 104; form of prayer, no, ii. 104; frightened by Popery, v. 57. PRESCIENCE, of the Deity, iii. 290. PRESCRIPTION OF MURDER. See MURDER. Present State of England, iv. 311. PRESENT TIME, never happy, ii. 350. PRESENT TIMES, Johnson never inveighed against them, iii. 3. PRESS, awed by parliament as regards report of debates, i. 115; iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1; complete freedom obtained, i. 116; Johnson attacks its liberty, ii. 60; vindicates it, ib., n. 3; discusses it with Dr. Parr, iv. 15, n. 5; Mansfield tries to stifle it, i. 116, n. 1; law of libel, iii. 16, n. 1; licentiousness, its, i. 116; debate on it, iv. 318, n. 3; prosecutions in 1764, ii. 60, n. 3; superfoetation, its, iii. 332. PRESS-GANGS, iii. 460. PRESTBURY, v. 432, n. 2. PRESTICK, ii. 271, n. 4. PRESTON, iii. 135, n. 1. PRESTON, Sir Charles, iv. 154. PRETENDER, the Young, account of his escape, v. 187-205, 264; dresses in women’s clothes, v. 188; at Kingsburgh, v. 185, 189; shoes, ib.; in Rasay, v. 174, n. 1, 190-4; fears assassination, v. 194; speaks of Culloden, ib.; returns to Sky, v. 195; pretends to be a servant, v. 195, 196-7; his odd face, v. 196; goes to Mackinnon’s country, v. 197; to Knoidart, v. 199; reward offered for him, v. 186, 199, n. 1; agitating a rebellion in 1752, i. 146, n. 2; base character, his, v. 200, n. 1; Charles III, ii. 253; Derby, march to, iii. 162; designation proper for him, v. 185, n. 4; Johnson sleeps in his bed, v. 185; London, in, i. 279, n. 5; v. 196, n. 2, 201; Voltaire’s reflections on him, v. 199. PRICE, Archdeacon, v. 454. PRICE, Dr. Richard account of him, iv. 434; Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson would not meet him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; London-born children, iv. 210. PRICE, —— , a vain Welsh scholar, v. 438. Prideauxs Connection, iv. 311. PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph, Boswell attacks him, iv. 238, n. 1, 433; Parr defends him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; discoveries in chemistry, iv. 237, n. 6, 238; Elwall’s trial, account of, ii. 164, n. 5; Franklin praises his moderation, iv. 434; Gibbon and Horsley attack him, iv. 437; Heberden, Dr., a benefactor to him, iv. 228, n. 2; house burnt by rioters, iv. 238, n. 1; ‘index-scholar,’ iv. 407, n. 4; Johnson’s estimate of his writings, iv. 407, n. 4; interview with, iv. 434; on the pronunciation of Latin, ii. 404, n. 1; Mackintosh’s character of him, iv. 443; Philosophical necessity, iii. 291, n. 2; iv. 433-4; Shelburne, Lord, lives with, iv. 191, n. 4; theological works, ii. 124. PRIESTS, enemies to liberty, v. 255, n. 5. PRIME MINISTER, name and office, ii. 355; n. 2; not in Johnson’s Dictionary, i. 295, n. 1; no real one since Walpole’s time, ii. 355. PRIMROSE, Lady, v. 201. PRINCE, the bookseller, i. 291. PRINCE FREDERICK (brother of George III), v. 185, n. 1, PRINCE OF WALES, happiest of men, i. 368, n. 3; iv. 182. PRINCE OF WALES (Frederick, father of George III), generosity, shows, v. 188, n. I; Mallet’s dependence on him, i. 329, n. 3; Pope’s repartee to him, iv. 50; Vane, Anne, his mistress, v. 49, n. 4. PRINCE OF WALES (George III), v. 185, n. 1. PRINCE OF WALES (George IV), Boswell carries up an address to him, iv. 248, n. 2; insolence, his, iv. 270, n. 2; Johnson pleased with his knowledge of the Scriptures as a child, ii. 33, n. 3; language as a young man, his, ib.; Thurlow and Sir John Ladd, iv. 412, n. 1. PRINCESS OF WALES, Dowager, (mother of George III), presents to Lord Bute, iv. 127, n. 3. Prince Titi, ii. 391. Prince Voltiger, ii. 108. PRINCIPLE, goodness founded upon it, i. 443; things founded on no principle, v. 159. PRINCIPLES, general, must be had from books, ii. 361. PRINCIPLES and practice, i. 418, n. 3; ii. 341; iii. 282; iv. 396; v. 210, 359. PRINGLE, Sir John, Johnson could not agree with him, iii. 65; v. 376, 384; madness, on the cause of, iii. 176, n. 1; President of the Royal Society, iii. 65, n. 1; Smith’s Wealth of Nations, ii. 430; mentioned, ii. 59, n. 3, 164; iii. 7, 15, n. 2, 247; v. 97. PRINTER’S DEVIL, iv. 99. PRINTERS, keeping their coach, ii. 226; wages of journeymen, ii. 323. PRINTING, early printed books, v. 459; effect on learning, iii. 37; people without it barbarous, ii. 170. PRIOR, Sir James, Johnson’s projected Life of Goldsmith, iii. 100, n. 1. PRIOR, Matthew, amorous pedantry, iii. 192, n. 2; Animula vagtila, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2; borrowing, instances of his, iii. 396; Chameleon, ii. 158, n. I; Despairing Shepherd, ii. 78, n. 2; Goldsmith republishes two of his poems, iii. 192, n. 2; Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos, translation of, iii. 119, n. 6; Hailes, Lord, censured by, iii. 192; lady’s book, a, iii. 192; love verses, ii. 78; ‘My noble, lovely little Peggy,’ iii. 425, n. 2; Paulo Purganti, iii. 192; Pitcairne, translation from, v. 58. PRIOR PARK, v. 80, n. 5. PRISONS, Johnson’s praise of a good keeper, iii. 433. See under LONDON, Newgate, &c. PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, good but affected, v. 126; Irene, acted, i. 197; in common life a vulgar idiot, iv. 243; mechanical player, ii. 348; mentioned, ii. 92. PRIVATE CONVERSATION, iv. 216. PRIZE-FIGHTING, v. 229. PRIZE VERSES, in the Gent. Mag., i. 91, n. 2, 136. PRIZES, money arising from, ii. 353, n. 4. Probationary Odes for the Laureateship, A Great Personage, i. 219, n. 3; Boswell ridiculed, i. 116, n. 1; and the two Wartons, ii. 41, n. 1. PROBATIONER, cause of a, ii. 171. Probus Britannicus, i. 141. Procerity, i. 308. Prodigious, iii. 231, n. 4, 303; v. 396, n. 3. PROFESSION, choice of one, v. 47; misfortune not to be bred to one, iii. 309, n. 1; time and mind given to one not very great, ii. 344. Profession, The, iii. 285, n. 2. PROFESSIONAL MAN, solemnity of manner, iv. 310. Profitable Instructions, &c., i. 431, n. 2. PROFUSION, iii. 195. Progress of Discontent, i. 283, n. 2. Project, The, iii. 318. Project for the Employment of Authors, i. 306, n. 3. Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre, i. 181; ii. 69; iv. 25, 310. PRONUNCIATION, difficulty of fixing it, ii. 161; Irish, Scotch, and provincial, ii. 158-160. Properantia, i. 223. PROPERTY, depends on chastity, ii. 457; permanent property, ii. 340. PROPITIATION, doctrine of the, iv. 124; v. 88. Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153. PROSE, English. See STYLE. PROSPERITY, vulgar, iii. 410. PROSPERO, i. 216. PROSTITUTION, severe laws needed, iii. 18. PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION, iii. 427, n. 1. PROTESTANTISM, converts to it, ii. 106. PROVIDENCE, entails not an encroachment on his dominions, ii. 420, 421; his hand seen in the breaking of a rope, v. 104; a particular providence, iv. 272, n. 4. PROVISIONS, carrying, to a man’s house, v. 73. Provoked Husband, The, or The Journey to London, ii. 48, 50; iv. 284. PRUDENCE, ‘Nullum numen,’ &c., iv. 180. PRUSSIA, Queen of, (the mother of Frederick the Great), iv. 107, n. 1. PSALM 36, v. 444. PSALMANAZAR, George, account of him, Appendix A, iii. 443-9; arrives in London, iii. 444, 447; at Oxford, iii. 445, 449; birth, education, and wanderings, iii. 446-7; writes his Memoirs, iii. 445; Club in Old Street, his, iv. 187; Complete System of Geography, article in the, iii. 445; Description of Formosa, iii. 444; hypocrisy, never free from, iii. 444; 448-9; Innes, Dr., aided in his fraud by, i. 359; invention of his name, iii. 447; Johnson sought after him, iii. 314; respected him as much as a Bishop, iv. 274; Spectator, ridiculed in the, iii. 449. PUBLICATIONS, spurious, ii. 433. Publick Advertiser, i. 300; ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2, 93, n. 3. PUBLIC AFFAIRS vex no man, iv. 220. See ENGLAND. PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, ii. 169. Public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3. PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, iii. 53. PUBLIC JUDGMENT. See WORLD. Public Ledger, iii. 113, n. 3. PUBLIC LIFE, eminent figure made in it with little superiority of mind, iv. 178. PUBLIC OVENS, ii. 215. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. See SCHOOLS. PUBLIC SPEAKING, ii. 139, 339. Public Virtue, iv. 20. PUBLIC WORSHIP, i. 418, n. 1; iv. 414, n. 1. PUBLISHERS. See BOOKSELLERS. Pudding, Meditation on a, v. 352. PUFFENDORF, corporal punishment, ii. 157; Introduction to History, iv. 311; not in practice as a lawyer, ii. 430. PULPIT, liberty of the, iii. 59, 91. PULSATION, effect on life, iii. 34. PULTENEY, William. See BATH, Earl of. PUNCH, bowl of, i. 334. PUNCTUATION, Lyttelton’s History of Henry II, iii. 32, n. 5. PUNIC WAR, iii. 206, n. 1. PUNISHMENT, eternal, iii. 200; iv. 299. PUNS, ‘dignifying a pun,’ v. 32, n. 3. Johnson’s contempt for them, ii. 241; iv. 316; Boswell’s approval of them, ib.; one in Menagiana, ii. 241. See under BURKE and JOHNSON. PUNSTER, defined, ii. 241, n. 2. PURCELL, Thomas, ii. 343. PURGATORIANS, ii. 162. PURGATORY, ii. 104, 163. See MIDDLE STATE. PUTNEY, ii. 444. PYE, Henry James, poet laureate, i. 185, n. 1. PYM, John, member of Broadgates Hall, i. 75, n. 3; mentioned, ii. 118. PYRAMIDS of Egypt, iii. 352. PYTHAGOREAN DISCIPLINE, iii. 261.
