PAGAN superstitions, fall short of the Gothic, iv. 284.
PANDECTS, when and by whom introduced into England, iii. 354.
their doctrine concerning the origin of government, 371.
PAPAL SUPREMACY, its extent in this kingdom, iv. 42.
how transferred to Henry VIII. 43.
qualifying clauses, _ib._
high notions entertained of the pope’s power, 46.
dispensing power, 52.
exercised by the popes against the Gospel itself, 56. n.
indignation of the popes against our reforming sovereigns, 61.
PARLIAMENTS, their authority acknowledged even under our most despotic
Princes, iv. 37.
transferred the papal supremacy to Henry VIII. 43.
how curbed by the _dispensing power_, 51, 52.
PERSONIFICATION, why frequent in old poetry, iii. 211, 212.
PHILIP THE GOOD, duke of Burgundy, a festival given by him, for a
crusade, iv. 298.
PHILOSOPHERS, ancient, considered travel as a necessary part of their
studies, iv. 95.
PHILOSOPHY, how at present degraded, iv. 131.
PLATO, the model, if not the inventor, of the Greek dialogue, iii. 20.
PLOT, of Mr. Waller, its failure, iii. 71, 72.
confounded with another of more dangerous tendency, 75.
PLUTARCH, his life of Theseus reads like a modern romance, iv. 266.
POETRY, what point in the revolutions of taste and language most
favourable to it, iii. 210.
the sublime species not subject to strict rules of credibility,
iv. 325, 326.
POETS, generally enamoured of solitude, iii. 113, 114.
POLE, Cardinal, violent in his invectives against Henry VIII. iv. 60.
POLITENESS, not attainable by great men, iv. 166.
what its most reasonable sense, 201.
PREJUDICES, of home-bred gentlemen, iv. 114.
the term equivocal, 152.
some ought not to be removed, 153.
proper cure for vicious prejudices, 155.
PREROGATIVE, of English monarchs, controuled by law, iii. 287.
PROTESTANT COUNCIL, projected by Cromwell, iv. 14. n.
PROTESTANTISM, had made considerable progress on the accession of
Elizabeth, iii. 224.
its effects on the public morals, 238.
PROTESTANTS, French, persecution of, iv. 12. n.
PURITANISM, growth of, iv. 63.
PURITANS, how managed by Queen Elizabeth, iii. 227.