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Pomfret. Censured for dulness and vanity, x. 243.
Poor. Proposal for giving badges to them, ix. 414. xvi. 260. The only objection made to such a proposal answered, ix. 416. Industrious poor more necessary members of the commonwealth than the rich, x. 35. Begging poor mostly become such by their own idleness, attended with all manner of vices, 98. 118. No word more abused than it, 98. Enjoy many blessings not common to the rich and great, 100-104.
Pope (Mr). His character, vii. 3. Wrote his Dunciad at the request of Dr. Swift, vii. 374. xii. 289. 441. Verses to him while writing the Dunciad, vii. 374. Overturned in a coach and much hurt, xii. 198. 201. 204. Used to quit his guests soon after supper, 484. In danger a second time of being drowned, xiii. 297. Swift pushed the subscription for his Homer, xix. 22. Letters of his secreted and afterward published without his consent, 143, 144. Various reading in his Dunciad, 150. Unable to bear the sea, 151. His character as a poet, xviii. 423. The initial letters in his poems not understood even by Dr. Swift, xiii. 401. Inscription under his portrait at Oxford, xvii. 471. His poem called Windsor Forest|Windsor Forest published and commended, xv. 397. Lord Bolingbroke's judgment of his Ethic Essays, xiii. 133. His character of Dr. Swift and his writings, 329. His account of lord Bolingbroke's plan of life and studies in France, xix. 146. Why the friendship of young rather than of old people cultivated by him, 149. Gives Dr. Swift an account of his course of life and amusements, 150.
Popery. The run against it after the revolution as just and reasonable as that against fanaticism after the restoration, iii. 187. Whether the principles of the whigs or tories are most likely to introduce it, 209. Vain fears of the danger of it excited by the whigs, iv. 404. The most absurd system of christianity professed by any nation, v. 304. In a declining state in Ireland, ibid.
Portland (James Bentinck, earl of). Described, under the character of Phocion, ii. 309. His character, xviii. 223.
Portland (William Bentinck, duke of). His character, xiii. 136.
Portraits. Engraved might supply the place of medals, v. 471.
Portugal. Deceived by the false representations of the whigs, iii. 316. Two alliances with that crown, very disadvantageous to England, 356-359. The war in that kingdom entirely abandoned by the allies, and left to the charge of the English, iv. 134. The engagement of the king of Portugal to raise a number of forces never performed, though the subsidies for them were constantly paid, ibid. iii. 374. These subsidies put an end to
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