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Persians, the, 61

Persons, three kinds of, in religion, 101

Pharaoh, magicians of, 267

Philosophers, they speak of material things in spiritual phrase and vice versâ, 25

---- do not know our nature when they blame the search after diversion, 34

---- falsity of those, who do not discuss the immortality of the soul, 111

---- against those, who believe in God without Jesus Christ, 111

---- their weakness, 179, 180

---- have consecrated vices, 189

Philosophy, human, incapable of explaining man, 106

Pictures, rules for perspective, 27

Piety, differs from superstition, 251

Plato, 254

Play, why sought after, 33

---- remarks on, 35

Pleasure, shameful to man to yield to, 30

Poet, the trade of a, 79

Poland, the king of, 75

Portentum, meaning of the word, 270

Pompey, 147

Pope, whence he has his light, 276

---- his power in the Church to be considered in two ways, 288

---- may easily be taken unawares by the Jesuits, 288

Porphyry, 116

Port Royal, children of, 58

---- bad policy to dissolve the community of, 284

Power, tyrant of the world, 55

---- creates opinion, 56

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