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Pretyman, Bishop of Lincoln.
His life of William Pitt.
Printing, influence of, on modern history.
Prior, Matthew, his intimacy with Bishop Atterbury.
Prize poems, character of.
Provencal poets, their amatory compositions.
Prussia, Mr Sadler's law of population, as ill.u.s.trated by the census of Prussia.
Psalmanazar, George, his friends.h.i.+p with Samuel Johnson.
Purgatorio, Dante's, the simile of the sheep in the.
Incomparable style of the sixth canto of.
Puritans, their prohibition of theatrical representations.
Quakers, Bunyan's abhorrence of the.
Quintillian, his principles of criticism.
Quixote, the Spiritual.
Radical War Song, a.
Rambler, Johnson's, publication of the.
Ra.s.selas, Johnson's, circ.u.mstances under which it was written.
Plan of the work.
Re-election to Parliament, Speech on.
Reform Bill, mildness of the revolution of the.
Reform, Parliamentary, Speeches on.
Regent, the Prince, and the King.
Rent, Doctrine of.
Repeal of Union with Ireland, Speech on.
Representation, its value as a check on the governing few.
Revolution, the French, terms in which it is spoken of by M.
Dumont.
Revolution, the first and second French.
Compared with the English.
And with the American.
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his part in the Club.
Rich: desire of the poor majority to plunder the rich minority.
Effects which a general spoliation would produce.
Richardson, Samuel, his opinion of the Rambler.
His kindness to Johnson.
Robespierre, his power over the lives of his fellow-citizens.
His character.
Regaled by Barere at a tavern on the day of the Queen's death.
Atrocious decree of the Convention proposed by him.
Becomes one of the Committee of Public Safety.
Purpose of his celebrated fiendish decree.
Barere's panegyric on Robespierre.
Barere's motion to put Robespierre and his accomplices to death.
Robespierre's execution.
His character.
Rockingham, Charles Marquis of, at the head of the Whig opposition.
His adherents in the House of Commons.
Becomes Prime Minister.
His death.
Roland, Madame, her courage and force of thought.
Her execution.
Roland, the Girondist, his wife.
His fate.
Roman Tale, Fragments of a.
Romans, domestic habits of the.
Character of the poetry of the Romans.
Their regard for the language and literature of Greece.
Their disregard of the sacred books of the Hebrews.
Their exclusive spirit.
The Roman empire of the time of Diocletian compared with the Chinese empire.
Effect of the victory of Christianity over paganism.
Purification of the Roman world by the invasion of the Barbarians.
Rousseau, his egotism and its success.
Royal Society of Literature, on the.
