Political Parallels, iii. [267].
Polydore Vergil, a destroyer of MSS., ii. 445.
Pomponius Lætus, in the 15th century raised altars to Romulus, ii. 485; chief of the “Academy” at Rome, 486.
Pope, his manuscripts, ii. 110; passage from, with the various alterations, 111, 112; Dr. Johnson’s memorandum of hints for the life of, 381; anecdote of, iii. [397].
Pope, project of the, for placing a cardinal on the throne of England, ii. 505; favoured by Henry IV., ib.
Popes, their early humility and subsequent arrogance, ii. 83; Celestine kicks off the crown of the Emperor Henry the Sixth, ib.; their infallibility first asserted, ib.; protest of the University of Vienna against, 84; their excommunications, ib.
Porta, John Baptiste and John Vincent, found the academy “Degli Oziosi,” ii. 488; Baptiste’s mechanical genius, iii. [290].
Portraits, of authors, of celebrated men, i. 42-47; of the Fugger family, 6; commonly prefixed to ancient manuscripts, 42; collections of, amongst the ancients, 43; query upon the mode of their transmission and their correctness, ib.; use of, ib.; anecdotes relative to the effect of, 45; objections of ingenious men to sit for, reprobated, 46; Granger’s illustrations of, 45; Perrault’s “Eloges” confined to French, ib.; collection by Paulus Jovius, ib.; doubts as to authenticity of several, ib.; literary, of himself, by St. Evremond, 102; in minute writing, 275.
Port Royal Society, the, i. 94; their Logic, or The Art of Thinking, an admirable work, ib.; account of its rise and progress, 95; many families of rank erected houses there, ib.; persecuted and destroyed by the Jesuits, 96; their writings fixed the French language, ib.
Posies on rings, iii. [39], note.