Part 53

Officers, military and naval, nature of the fortitude required of them, v. 468.

Opinion, popular, the support of government, ii. 224; vi. 165; vii. 91. an equivocal test of merit, v. 183. the generality of it not always to be judged of by the noise of the acclamation, v. 286.

Opinions, men impelled to propagate their own by their social nature, v. 361. their influence on the affections and passions, v. 403; vii. 44. the most decided often stated in the form of questions, vi. 28. the interest and duty of government to attend much to them, vii. 44.

Oppression, the poorest and most illiterate are judges of it, iv. 281.

Orange, Prince of, (afterwards William III.,) extracts from his Declaration, iv. 147.

Ordeal, purgation by, vii. 314.

Oude, extent and government of, under Sujah ul Dowlah, xi. 373.

Pain, pleasure, and indifference, their mutual relation as states of the mind, i. 103. nature and cause of pain, i. 210. how a cause of delight, i. 215.

Paine, Thomas, remarks on his character, v. iii; vi. 60.

Painting and poetry, their power, when due to imitation, and when to sympathy, i. 123.

Pandulph, the Pope's legate, his politic dealing with King John, vii. 451. parallel between his conduct to King John and that of the Roman consuls to the Carthaginians in the last Punic war, vii. 453.

Papal power, uniform steadiness of it in the pursuit of its ambitious projects, vii. 449.

Papal pretensions, sources of their growth and support, vii. 384.

Papal States, how likely to be affected by the revolution in France, iv. 337.

Parliament, remarks on it, i. 491. the power of dissolving it, the most critical and delicate of all the trusts vested in the crown, ii. 553. disadvantages of triennial parliaments, vii. 79.

Parliaments of France, character of them, iii. 505.

Parliament of Paris, observations on its subversion, xii. 396.

Parliamentary disorders, ideas for the cure of them, i. 516.

Parsimony, a leaning towards it in war may be the worst management, i. 310.

Party divisions, inseparable from free government, i. 271. definition of the term, party, i. 530. evils of party domination, vi. 390.

Passions, all concern either self-preservation or society, i. 110. final cause of the difference between those belonging to self-preservation and those which regard the society of the sexes, i. 113. those which belong to self-preservation turn upon pain and danger, i. 125. nature and objects of those belonging to society, i. 125. a control over them necessary to the existence of society, iv. 52. strong ones awaken the faculties, v. 287. vehement passion not always indicative of an infirm judgment, v. 407. mere general truths interfere very little with them, vi. 326. passions which interest men in the characters of others, vii. 148.

Pasturage and hunting, weaken men's ties to any particular habitation, vii. 171.

Paulus, observation of his on law, vi. 324.

Peace, requisites of a good one, i. 295. the steps taken to bring one about always an augury of what it is likely to be, v. 251. a ground of peace never laid until it is as good as concluded, v. 260. an arrangement of peace in its nature a permanent settlement, v. 349.

Penal statute of William III. against the Papists, repeal of it, ii. 391.

People, accurate idea of the term, iv. 169. evils of an abuse of it, iv. 411. the temper of the people the first study of a statesman, i. 436. in seasons of popular discontent, something generally amiss in the government, i. 440. the people have no interest in disorder, i. 441. generally fifty years behindhand in their politics, i. 442. a connection with their interests a necessary qualification of a minister, i. 474. sense of the people, how to be ascertained by the king, i. 475. should show themselves able to protect every representative in the performance of his duty, i. 503. liberty cannot long exist where they are generally corrupt, ii. 242. the people of England love a mitigated monarchy more than even the best republic, iv. 149. danger of teaching them to think lightly of their engagements to their governors, iv. 162. the natural control on authority, iv. 164. dangerous nature of a power capable of resisting even their erroneous choice of an object, vi. 296. points on which they are incompetent to give advice to their representatives, vii. 74, 75.

Perfection not the cause of beauty, i. 187.

Persecution, religious, an observation of Mr. Bayle concerning it, vi. 333. general observations on it, vi. 394.