Poor, the, would never work if they did not want, [113].
The plenty of provisions depends on the cheapness of their labour, [114], [178].
Qualifications required in the labouring poor, ibid. [179].
What they ought not to grumble at, [186].
Great numbers of poor are wanting, [201].
The mischiefs arising from their not being well managed, [188].
Not to be suffered to stay from church on Sundays, [193].
The petty reverence that is paid to the poor, injurious, [195].
Which sort of them are most useful to others, and happy in themselves, and which are the reverse, [515].
The consequences of forcing education upon their children, ibid., [516].

Popes. What is chiefly minded in the choice of them, [297].

Poverty, voluntary, brings nobody into contempt, [89].
An instance of that truth, [90]. Very scarce, [341].
The only man in antiquity that can be said to have embraced it, ibid.
The greatest hardship in poverty, [343].

Praise, is the reward all heroes have in view, [20].

Predestination, an inexplicable mystery, [429], [441].

Preferment. What men are most like to get it, [511].

Pretences, false, of great men concerning pleasure, [95].

Pride, [5].
What animals show the most of it, [15].
The pride of men of sense, [38].
A definition of pride, [66].
The apologies of proud men, and the falsities of them detected, ibid. [67].
Various symptoms of pride, [30], [71].
How it is encouraged in military men, [129].
The benefit we receive from the pride of great men, [130].
The power of pride, [304], [305].
No precepts against it in a refined education, [306].
Increases in proportion with the sense of shame, [315].
What is meant by playing the passion of pride against itself, ibid.
Is able to blind the understanding in men of sense, ibid., [316].
In the cause of honour, [324].
Pride is most enjoyed when it is well led, [331].
Why more predominant in some than in others, [347].
Whether women have a greater share of it than men, [348].
Why more encouraged in women, ibid.
The natural and artificial symptoms of it, [350], [351].
Why the artificials are more excusable, [351].
In whom the passion is most troublesome, ibid.
To whom it is most easy to stifle it, ibid.
In what creatures it is most conspicuous, [353].
The disguises of it, [357].
Who will learn to conceal it soonest, [361].
Is our most dangerous enemy, [474].

Principle. A man of honour, and one that has none, may act from the same principle, [324].
Reasons why the principle of self-esteem is to be reckoned among the passions, ibid., [325].
Honour not built upon any principle either of religion or virtue, [349].
Principles most men act from, [511], [512].

Prodigality, [54].
The use of it to the society, ibid. [152].