Pictorial Biography.—See Magius.
Pisistratus, the first projector amongst the Greeks of a collection of the works of the learned, i. 2.
Philip the First of Spain, i. 469; his marriage with Mary of England, ib.; sought Queen Elizabeth in marriage, 470; offered himself to three different sisters-in-law, ib.; his advice to his son, ib.; his death-bed, ib.; his epitaph, 471.
Philosophy, dreams at the dawn of, iii. [280]-290; mechanical fancies, [291], [292]; inquiries after prodigies, [293]; further anecdotes of, [294]-296.
Physiognomy, credited by Louis XIV. and James I., i. 148, 149.
Picart, his impostures innocentes, i. 259.
Pictures belonging to Charles I., ii. 332, 333.
Pinamonti, his book on the eternal punishments, i. 204, note.
Pinelli, his great library, and its partial destruction, i. 57, and note.
Plagiarism, in printed sermons, i. 400; a professor of, ib.