et seq. Motives of, 430. Parable against, 436. Pas- sages of Scripture against, 437- Why it prevails among Christians, 439, Note. What the desire of ma. king proselytes proceeds from, 443.
Petronius Arbiter, his remark on the decline of the fine arts, i. 242. Quoted, iii. 254.
Plants have each a proper climate, i. 8, Note. Original
climates of wheat, oats, &c. 71, Note. When several were introduced into England, 139.
Plato, false reasonings of, ii. 422. 426. 430. His defini- tion of man, iii. 33.
Plautus, remarks on the comedies, of, i, 211. His puns, 213.
Pliny, his deficiency in natural knowledge, i. 56. 409. His remarks on the barbarity of man, ii. 29. His ac- count of polytheism, iii. 270.
Plutarch quoted, ii. 80; iii. 314.
Poetry, why earlier than prose, i. 174. et seq.
Polygamy, not known among the northern nations, i. 386. An infringement of the law of nature, 415. et seq. Rise of, 424.
Poor, public police in different countries concerning the, ii. 296. et seq. Ill management of the poors rates in England, 300. et seq. Plan concerning, 313. et seq. 327. Ought to be left to private charity, 320. et seq. • Remarks on poor-houses, 331. et seq.
Pope, pretensions of the, to bestow kingdoms, iii. 423. Population, proportionable to the quantity of food, i. 83, Increased by the bounty for exporting corn, 85. De- crease of, by luxury, 88. By foundling hospitals, 89, Note. By despotism, 90. By an overflowing quanti ty of money, ibid.
Porphyry, his introduction, iii. 9.
Portuguese, their discoveries, i. 144. Ruined by opu- lence, ii. 149. Degraded state of the, 150, Note. Predicables, the five, iii. 15.
Procopius, his superstition, iii. 300. Quoted, 313. Property, progress of, i. 91. et seq. Idea of, not confined to the human species, 94, Its advantage, 96. Mise- ries arising from the appetite for, 97. Exemplified in the conduct of the Spaniards to the Americans, ibid. et seq. Propositions, Aristotle's definition of, and remarks on, iii. 35. et seq. Of the conversion of, 38. 48. See Reason- ing.
Prose, later than poetry, i, 174, et seq. At first drama- tic, 180.
Proselytes, remarks on the desire of making, and its fol-
ly, iii. 443. et seq. How the people of Rum were converted, 447.
Punishments to be mitigated, as society improves, i. 60. See Law.
Pythagoras, foolish conceits of, ii. 46€.
Quakers, tenet of the, iii. 394.
Quinctilian quoted, iii. 348.
Ramus, his categories, iii. 25. His addition to Aristotle's "
Logic, 51.
Ray. See Buffon.
Raynal, his remarks on the insolence of the Creoles, i. 298, Note.
Reason, principles of, ii. 394. et seq. Of truth and false-
hood, ibid, Source of our knowledge, 395. et seq. Of propositions,
propositions, 399. Mathematical reasoning depends on the idea of equality, 400. Mental powers required in, 402. Why mathematical r. demonstrative, 403. Of opinion, 408. Of belief, 410. et seq. Analogical . 414. Progress of 418. et seq. Hindered by Aristotle, 420. Instances of absurd r. 422. Various sources of this, ibid. Too high idea of this power formed by the ancients, iii. 62.
Reid, his account of Aristotle's logic. See Logic. Quot- ed, iii. 130, Note.
Religion. See Worship.
Reparation. See Law.
Ridicule too coarse for refined manners, i. 158.
327. et seq. Their mili- Labour of their soldiers, state, iii. 237. Folly of Their superstition, 310,
Robertson quoted, ii. 96. Remark of, 121, Note. Romans, corrupteb dy opulence,i. 327.; iii. 238. Instan- ces of their breach of faith, i. tary establishments, ii. 252. 277. Integrity, when a small their religious creed, 277. Note. Addicted to forms, 372. Rousseau, an assertion of, i. 279. What he considers as the best quality in women, 406. His character of a wife, 419, Note. Quoted, 421, Reprobates convents as schools of education, 478. Remarks of, 514. 519. ; ii. 4. 73. 125. Quoted, iii. 129. 495. Russia, despotic nature of its government, ii, 67. Ruth, story of, narrated, i. 181.
Sabatai Levi, account of, iii. 321.
Sadder, doctrines in the, iii. 384.
Sallust, his remarks on the corruption of the Romans,
Salt tax, its absurdity, ii. 195. Samson, his foxes, i. 252. et seq. Saxe, Marshal, quoted, ii. 264.
Scandinavians, courage of the, i. 31. 375. et seq. Their bards, 377. Sentiments of their poetry, 378. et seq. Moral sentiments, 381. Their resemblance to the an- cient Caledonians, 382. et seq. Their respect for wo- men, 383. Odes of, 387. et seq.
Scotland, ill peopled in the days of James V. i. 85. Cir- cumstances which tended to hinder the progress of its inhabitants, 149. Probability of its being much beau- tified, 173. Music of, 237. Clan spirit of its High- landers reduced, ii. 248, Note. Of entails in, iii. 451. et seq. Government of royal boroughs in, 464. et seq. Plan for improving the highways in, 472. Considera- tions that support this plan, 481.
Scriptures, Holy, dramatic style of the, i. 181. et seq.] Seneca, a corrupter of the Roman taste, i. 222, Senses, internal, various, ii. 395.
Servius, remark of, i. 42.
Shakespeare, why formerly less relished than Johnson, i. 167. His knowledge of human nature, 223.
Shepherd state, how first introduced, i. 71. Friendly to population, 73. Continued longest in cold countries, 75. Never existed in the torrid zone, 81.
Slavery, when abolished in England, i. 300. Considered as a capital punishment, 301.
Society. See Man.
Socrates, his dying prayer, iii. 286.
Soil, harren, favourable to industry and liberty, i. 402.
Soldiers, idleness of British, ii. 279. Note. See Govern-
Solomon, narration of his ascension to the throne, i, 190. Sophisms, Aristotle's book on, iii. 9. et seq.
Sophocles, his tragedies of Oedipus quoted, iii. 245. Soul, immortality of, a general tenet, i. 366.
Spaniards, their want of industry, to what owing, i. 118. Their agriculture not injured by superfluity of the precious metals, 124. Why so gråve, 322.
Spain, how ruined, ii. 234. 238. et seq. Flourishing state of, under the Moors, 235. Sparta, how corrupted, i. 275. Speech, structure of, iii. 33. Sphinx, fable of the, ii. 466.
Statuary, sooner perfected than painting, i. 172.
States, progress of, ii. 84. et seq. Great and small states compared, 96. Method by which great ones defend their frontier, 108.
Strangers, aversion to, common among savages, i. 24. Exceptions, 26. et seq. Aversion to, in infants, ii. 22. Often converted into friendship among tribes, 30.; and the converse, 33.
Suicide, remark on, i. 515, Note.
Sun, worship of the, iii. 364.
Superstition, instances of, iii. 303. et seq. Swearing, remark on, i. 308.
Syllogisms, the propositions proved by, are self evident, iii. 3. Contrived for disputation, 4. Of their figures and modes, 41. Of the invention of a middle term in, 45. Verses to remember their modes, 52. Examples of, 53. Demonstration of the legitimate modes of, 58. Considered as an engine of science, 62. et seq. Of mo- dal s. 66. Of s. that do not belong to figure and mode, 70.
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