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by the earl of Oxford, 375. On which a duty was demanded by the king on the very clothes of those soldiers the English sent to defend him, ibid.
Positiveness. A good quality for preachers and orators, v. 453. Positive men the most credulous, xvii. 382.
Possessions. Limited in all good commonwealths, v. 456.
Powel (judge). Character of him, xv. 85.
Power. No blessing in itself, x. 42. Is dangerous in the hands of persons of great abilities, without the fear of God, 52. Naturally attended with fear and precaution, xii. 345. What would cool the lust of absolute power in princes, xiii. 195.
Powers. What those are into which all independent bodies of men seem naturally to divide, ii. 291. The balance of power how best conceived, 293. The errour of those who think it an uncontrollable maxim that power is safer lodged in many hands than one, 298. The military ought always to be in subjection to the civil, iii. 61. 88, 89. A firm union in any country may supply the defects of power, ix. 180.
Pratt (Dr. Benjamin, provost of Dublin). Anecdote of him, v. 357. His character, ibid. xi. 451. Refuses preferment designed for him, unless it be given him in a manner consistent with his reputation, xi. 452. 459. 462. 465.
Preaching. May help well inclined men, but seldom or never reclaims the vicious, v. 462. Instructions for it, v. 85-109. The causes of the disregard paid to it in Ireland, x. 125. Remedies against it, 132.
Precedents. The use made of them by lawyers, vi. 294. Taken from times of exigency not applicable to other times, ix. 26. The motives and circumstances that first introduced them should be considered, 63.
Prelates. A modern custom with some, to talk of clergymen as if themselves were not of the number, iv. 399. See Bishops.
Prepossession. How it blinds the understanding, x. 12.
Prerogative (the king's). The meaning of that term, ix. 80. Lord Bacon's opinion of it, 81. Whoever seeks favour with a prince by a readiness to enlarge it, ought to provide that he be not outbid by another party, iv. 363.
