Poverty, abridgment of history of, by Morin, i. 198; regulations regarding, among the Jews, ib.; among the Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians, 199; uncommon among the ancients, 201; introduction of hospitals for the relief of, ib.
Prayer-books, gross illustrations of, i. 366.
Preachers, jocular, i. 251-258.
Prediction, political and moral, determined by certain prognostics, iii. [260]; of the Reformation by Cardinal Julian, Sir Thomas More, and Erasmus, [262]; by Sir Walter Rawleigh, [263]; of Tacitus, ib.; of Solon, [264]; of Charlemagne, ib.; Cicero’s art of, ib.; faculty of, possessed by Du Vair, [265]; principles of, revealed by Aristotle, [266]; by Mr. Coleridge, [268]; of the French Revolution, [269], [270]; frequently false, [272]; anecdotes, [273]; of the end of the world, ib., note; of the destruction of London in 1750, ib., note; of American independence, [274]; sometimes condemned as false when really verified, [275]; caution to be observed in, [276]; instances of, by Knox, [277]; of the death of Henry IV., ib.; reflections on, [278], [279].
Prefaces, frequently superior to the work, i. 71; a volume of, always kept ready by Cicero, ib.; ought to be dated, 72; anecdote of Du Clos’ to a fairy tale, ii. 340.
Preferment, anecdotes of, ii. 12.
Presbyterians, their conduct under Charles II., iii. [240]; their intolerance, [254].
Press-money, proposition that those who refused it should be tried by martial law, iii. [462], and note.
Price, Robert, a Welsh lawyer, incidents in his life, iii. [422].
Primero, a game at cards described, ii. 166, note.