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GENERAL INDEX.
Prince (Lady Mary), resident in the Savoy, 1623, xi. 9
Prince of Wales, as Duke of Cornwall, v. 4, 215, 363, 443 ; title of, 69, 214 ; renewal of the title, viii. 401 ; the first, xii. 383
Prince of Wales sovereign, viii. 184
Prince of Wales's Theatre, old, its sale and history, x. 64, 176, 232 ; and Picnic Society, xi. 67, 193 ; its demolition, xii. 365, 476
Pringle (A. T.) on black Jews, iv. 312
Printer's proof of poems, vii. 187
Printers, note on their marks, i. 504 ; designs of early, viii. 265, 393; their bad habits, xii. 494
Printers errors. See Mistakes.
Printing, early, in Ireland, iii. 288, 479
Printing in China, earliest mention of, viii. 84
Printing press, private, near Bath, viii. 384, 489
Prints, satirical coloured, c. 1780, ix. 269, 353
Prior (Matthew), his parentage, iii. 449 ; iv. 32
Prior (W. R.) on Canute and the tide, xi. 313. Mona, xi. 297
Prior to=before, use of the words, xii. 66, 154, 312
Priories, alien, iii. 449 ; iv. 274
Prison reform, its early advocates, iii. 129, 233
Prisoners, discontinuance of branding, i. 328, 413 ; ii. 78
Prisoners of war : in England, 1759-60, v. 269, 380, 465; English literature, vii. 469 ; viii. 46, 153, 514
Pristinensis Episcopus, Robert, D.G-., x. 88, 212
Pritchard (J. E.) on church brasses, vi. 467. Mile- End Gate pottery, vi. 488
Prittlewell Church, Essex, bells in, xii. 144
Prittlewell Churchyard, epitaph in, iv. 326, 427, 504
Privileges of the City of London, viii. 301
Privilegiatus, meaning of the term, xi. 448, 494
Privy Council held in private house, xii, 368
Privy Councillors in the time of James I., xii. 367, 415
" Prizes his cupboard," its meaning, i. 228
Pro Bono Publico on Public Schools, iii. 468
Probate, ancient courts of, xi. 70
Probate of wills, alteration in, i, 66
Probationer, Scotch, i. 67, 177
Processions round buildings, their direction, i. 388, 497
Procter (Adelaide A.), her ' Star of the Sea,' i. 48, 97; her 'Story of a Faithful Soul,' viii. 204, 247, 334
Proctor's sleeve, plucking a, vi. 8, 74
'Prodigal Son,' in old prints, i. 136, 195; as Sir Charles Grandison, x. 487; xi. 77
Prof, on St. Sebastien at Caumont, xi. 328
Profile machine, vi. 255, 356
Progress, factors of, xii. 506
Progress on public and grammar school, xii. 409
Progressing, its pronunciation, ii. 208
Promotion, use of the word, xi. 325
Pronouns, relative, their syntax, iii. 127
Pronunciation, alteration of, v. 395, 453, 497; of various words, vi. 52, 112, 192, 218, 227, 251, 306, 354, 375 ; dude, vii. 15 ; dodo, 16 ; inundate, 71 ; Greek and Latin, vii. 146, 351, 449 ; viii. 74, 192, 372, 513 ; ix. 131, 251, 311, 332, 436, 475 ; Marl- borough, viii. 164, 291, 468; of "sea," ix. 413; of English letters, x. 48 ; Greek, 75 ; of ng, x. 266, 393 ; xi. 77; naval, xii. 28, 118, 257, 434 ; of Erse, Welsh, and Irish names, 349, 392
Proof-reading and mistakes, viii. 502
" Prooshan Blue" in ' Pickwick,' v. 452 ; vi. 18
Prophecy c. Charles II., xii. 469
Prophecy concerning America and Spain, iii. 263
Prophylactic, blood as a, vii. 509
Prosody, the laws of Welsh, vi. 449
Prospect, use of the word in Authorized Version, vii.
486
Prospecti, new word, i. 86 "Prospicimus modo," ix. 34, 273, 358 Prototype, ill-treated word, ii. .487 Proverbs, dictionary of English, i. 487 ; ii. 117, 177;
sermon in, xi. 462
Proverbs and Phrases :
A bad day and a worse, viii. 14
A bolt from the blue, vi. 29
A creaking cart goes long on the wheels, vi. 298
A creaking gate hangs longest, vi. 217
A far cry to Loch Awe, v. 67, 130, 323
A mache and a horseshoe are both alike, vi. 127,
215, 294
A mad world, my masters, ix. 68, 317 A pickled rope, iv. 479 ; v. 15 A rat without a tail, vii. 486 Abraham's bosom, i. 516 Adelphi drama: Adelphi guest, vi. 186, 314 Ah '11 travis ther, vii. 445 ; viii. 52, 130, 229, 294 Albert the Good, vii. 88
All Cooper's ducks with me, ix. 127, 298, 392 All over, xii. 144, 294 An old friend and a good singer, iv. 26 Ance mariole, vii. 47, 95 Angels on horseback, ii. 145, 250 ; iii. 360 Another for Hector, vi. 251, 372 Another story, i. 349, 417 ; ii. 133 Apres nous le deluge, vi. 14, 67, 276, 455 Aria per fenestra ch' e colpa di balestra, vi. Arising out of, x. 107 As black as the devil's nutting-bag, iv. 478 ; v.
38, 95, 197
As fu 's the Baltic, iv. 288, 336, 406 As hard as the devil's forehead, iv. 478 As mad as a tup, viii. 501 ; ix. 98, 237 As mean as tongs, iv. 206 As merry as grigs, xii. 505 As right as rain, xi. 148 As right as a trivet, vii. 227, 335 As sure as there is a hip on a goat, iv. 187, 461 As throng as Throp's wife, v. 414, 526 As warm as a bat, viii. 142, 293 Ask no questions and yo*.'ll get no lies, iii. 47,
157
Ass bearing books, iv. 397, 483 Astonish the natives, ix. 267 ; x. 95 At sixes and sevens, xi. 266 Atlantic greyhound, v. 397, 525 Away with, ix. 348, 477
Babies in the eyes, ix. 405, 516 ; x. 56, 195, 299 Bacon : To save one's bacon, ii. 407 ; iii. 33, 472 Bears : Are you there with your bears ? i. 387,
496
Beat a bank, viii. 141 Beatific vision, ix, 509 ; x. 95, 177, 355, 436 ; xi.
236
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