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Pennsylvania. Too much extolled in a pamphlet giving an account of it, ix. 362.
People. The bulk of them forced to live miserably, that a few may live plentifully, vi. 296. A free people met together, whether by compact or family government, divide of themselves into three powers, ii. 292. The tyranny of the people ever followed by the arbitrary government of a single person, 321. The body of them in England as staunch unbelievers as any of the highest rank, 392. What the confluence of them to the capital city may be compared to, xvii. 386. Their natural bent and inclination, iii. 93. When left to their own judgment, seldom mistake their true interest, 94. The truest way of judging of their disposition, 95. The merciful disposition of the English populace, 153. When long used to hardships, lose, by degrees, the very notions of liberty, ix. 78. Their number not the riches of Ireland, ix. 353. 396. 420. Not always the riches of a nation, iv. 146. ix. 396. The true way pointed out of multiplying them to publick advantage, iv. 147.
Perjury. An instance where the law for its punishment is defective, xiii. 272.
Perpetual motion. Where the virtuosi may find it, v. 7.
Perrot (sir John). The first upon record that swore by God's wounds, viii. 256.
Persecution. The signification of the word considered with respect to the presbyterians, iv. 436.
Perseus (king of Macedon). When he made a mean figure, xvi. 332.
Petalism. What it was, and whence derived, ii. 331, note.
Peter, Martin, and Jack. The legacies left them by their father, and their several behaviour upon it, i. 86-201.
Peter (Czar of Muscovy). His ambassador arrested in England, iii. 202. Mr. Whitworth sent to him on an embassy of humiliation, xvi. 333.
Peter the Savage. A description of him, xvii. 302. Sent for to court by queen Caroline, ibid. xiii. 17.
Peterborow (Charles Mordaunt earl of). Verses addressed to him, vii. 35. Left unsupported in Spain, and exposed to the envy of his rivals, iii. 352. Though a zealous whig, abhorred by that party, and caressed by the tories, xi. 21. Is strenuous for continuing the war, 159. His character, vii. 35. xiv. 26. Bequeathed his watch to Pope, xiv. 163. Song by him, xvii. 426. His sentiments respecting the bill against occasional conformity, xi. 11. Queries sent by him to Dr. Swift, xi. 317. Writes a facetious letter to him, on the publication of Gulliver's Travels, xii. 217. His expeditious return from Vienna, xv. 73. His negotiations of great consequence, 82, 83. Reasons well against a peace, 83.
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