PORTUGAL, 65.
POWER in nations, sometimes united with wealth, sometimes not, 7.-- Definition of, 8, 9.-- Sought after by the Romans, and most nations, too eagerly, 39.-- Quitted Rome when wealth was too great, 36.
PRICES of animal and vegetable food; highness of price diminishes consumption, 161.-- Those of the late dearth at Paris compared with London, ib.-- When known to the corn-dealers, they can combine without any express stipulation, 152, 153.-- Rises to that of monopoly as soon as an article of necessity becomes scarce, 154, 155.-- Of rent and wages have advanced more within these last twelve years, than in half a century before, 155.
PRINCIPLES. See Education.
PRIORITY of possession of settlement, or of invention, one of the causes of wealth and power,
PRODUCE, indulging in eating animal food renders it unequal to maintaining the population of a country, 138, 139.-- Of Italy, inadequate to its population in the time of Augustus, 3.-- Easier purchased than raised when a nation is rich,
PROPERTY at Rome very unequally divided before its fall, 43.-- Has a natural tendency to accumulate in particular hands as a nation gets rich, 125, 126, 127.-- Its accumulation and unequal division, one of the causes of decline, 128.-- In land, the accumulation is the most dangerous, 129 to 136.
PROSPERITY. See Wealth and Power.
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REFORMATION favourable to manufactures and industry,