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Plantations. The shameful neglect of religion in the American, iii. 234, 235.

Plato. His conduct, when his character was aspersed, xviii. 257. His idea of happiness was unworthy of a philosopher, x. 142. Followed merchandise for three years, xii. 28. His notions resembled the doctrines of christianity, x. 193.

Players. Billet to a company of, xviii. 428.

Playhouse. The fountain of love, wit, dress, and gallantry, v. 261.

Pleasure. Balanced by an equal degree of pain, v. 454.

Plots. Instructions for discovering them, vi. 220.

Plutarch. Observes, that the disposition of a man's mind is often better discovered by a small circumstance, than by actions of the greatest importance, x. 319.

Poems. On burning a dull one, vii. 427.

Poet, Young. Letter of Advice to a, v. 239.

Poetry. Progress of, vii. 187. A Rhapsody on, viii. 166. History of, in a punning epistle, viii. 430. Art of Sinking in, xvii. 1. What kind of it ought to be preferred, xvii. 6. What the effect of epithets improperly used in it, viii. 171. Mr. Pope's reflections on it, v. 239.

Poets. Verses on two celebrated modern ones, xviii. 453. Have contributed to the spoiling of the English tongue, v. 71. Immortalize none but themselves, 455. A good poet can no more do without a good stock of similes, than a shoemaker without his lasts, v. 252. One who is provident can by no means subsist without a commonplace book, 253. Number of them in London and its suburbs, viii. 148.

Polemia (John Bull's eldest daughter). Her character, xvii. 173.

Polidore (sir). What the wrong side of his office, xi. 252.

Polignac (abbé de). His character, iv. 235.

Politeness. When at its greatest height in England and France, v. 237.

Politicians. Few of them so useful in a commonwealth as an honest farmer, ix. 189. A maxim learned from them, xiii. 179. Allegorize all the animal economy into state affairs, xi. 344. Secrecy one of their most distinguishing qualities, 417. Other requisites to them, ibid. King of France establishes an academy for their instruction, ibid. A maxim held by them, xiii. 179.

Politicks. Reduced to a science by the wits of Europe, vi. 153. A rule in them among a free people, ii. 293. Nothing required for a knowledge in them but common sense, iv. 249. What they are, in the common acceptation of the word, v. 463. An uncontrollable maxim in them, v. 319, 320. One cause of the want of brotherly love, x. 58. In all ages, too little religion mingled with them, 60. Why all courts are so full of them, 245. An expression, appropriated by the French to beauty, applicable to them, xi. 140. To show ill will, without power of doing mere, no good policy in a dependent people, 166. Never made by ministers the subject of conversation, xv. 390. Speci-

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