Probationary Odes for the Laureateship,
  A Great Personage, i. 219, n. 3;
  Boswell ridiculed, i. 116, n. 1;
    and the two Wartons, ii. 41, n. 1. 
PROBATIONER, cause of a, ii. 171.
Probus Britannicus, i. 141.
Procerity, i. 308.
Prodigious, iii. 231, n. 4, 303; v. 396, n. 3. 
PROFESSION,
  choice of one, v. 47;
  misfortune not to be bred to one, iii. 309, n. 1;
  time and mind given to one not very great, ii. 344.
Profession, The, iii. 285, n. 2. 
PROFESSIONAL MAN, solemnity of manner, iv. 310.
Profitable Instructions, &c., i. 431, n. 2. 
PROFUSION, iii. 195.
Progress of Discontent, i. 283, n. 2.
Project, The, iii. 318.
Project for the Employment of Authors, i. 306, n. 3.
Prologue at the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre, i. 181; ii. 69;
iv. 25, 310. 
PRONUNCIATION,
  difficulty of fixing it, ii. 161;
  Irish, Scotch, and provincial, ii. 158-160.
Properantia, i. 223. 
PROPERTY, depends on chastity, ii. 457;
  permanent property, ii. 340. 
PROPITIATION, doctrine of the, iv. 124; v. 88.
Proposals for printing Bibliotheca Harleiana, i. 153. 
PROSE, English.  See STYLE. 
PROSPERITY, vulgar, iii. 410. 
PROSPERO, i. 216. 
PROSTITUTION, severe laws needed, iii. 18. 
PROTESTANT ASSOCIATION, iii. 427, n. 1. 
PROTESTANTISM, converts to it, ii. 106. 
PROVIDENCE,
  entails not an encroachment on his dominions, ii. 420, 421;
  his hand seen in the breaking of a rope, v. 104;
  a particular providence, iv. 272, n. 4. 
PROVISIONS, carrying, to a man’s house, v. 73.
Provoked Husband, The, or The Journey to London, ii. 48, 50; iv. 284. 
PRUDENCE, ’Nullum numen,’ &c., iv. 180. 
PRUSSIA, Queen of, (the mother of Frederick the Great), iv. 107, n. 1. 
PSALM 36, v. 444. 
PSALMANAZAR, George,
  account of him, Appendix A, iii. 443-9;
  arrives in London, iii. 444, 447;
  at Oxford, iii. 445, 449;
  birth, education, and wanderings, iii. 446-7;
    writes his Memoirs, iii. 445;
  Club in Old Street, his, iv. 187;
  Complete System of Geography, article in the, iii. 445;
  Description of Formosa, iii. 444;
  hypocrisy, never free from, iii. 444; 448-9;
  Innes, Dr., aided in his fraud by, i. 359;
  invention of his name, iii. 447;
  Johnson sought after him, iii. 314;
  respected him as much as a Bishop, iv. 274;
  Spectator, ridiculed in the, iii. 449. 
PUBLICATIONS, spurious, ii. 433.
Publick Advertiser, i. 300; ii. 46, n. 2, 71, n. 2, 93, n. 3. 
PUBLIC AFFAIRS vex no man, iv. 220.  See ENGLAND. 
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS, ii. 169.
Public dinners, iv. 367, n. 3. 
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS, iii. 53. 
PUBLIC JUDGMENT.  See WORLD.
Public Ledger, iii. 113, n. 3. 
PUBLIC LIFE,
  eminent figure made in it with little