2; Life of Secker, iv. 29; reverend fops, iv. 76; Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280. PORTLAND, third Duke of, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3. See COALITION MINISTRY. PORTLAND, Dowager Duchess of, iii. 425. PORTMORE, Lord, Johnson's letter to him, iv. 268, n. 1. PORTRAITS, their chief excellence, v. 219; portrait-painting, improper for women, ii. 362; of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, portraits. PORTUGAL, iii. 23, 445. PORTUGAL PIECES, iv. 104. PORTUGUESE, discovery of the Indies, i. 455; n. 3; ii. 479; iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 12, n. 2. POSSIBILITIES, v. 46. POST, Brighton, to, iii. 92, n. 3; double letters, i. 283, n. 1; franking letters, iii. 364; iv. 361, n. 3; penny-post, i. 121, 151; postage from Lisbon, iii. 23; to Oxford, i. 283, n. 1. POST-CHAISE, driving from, or to something, iii. 5, 457; Gibbon delights in them, ii. 453, n. 1; also Johnson, ii. 453; if accompanied by a pretty woman, iii. 162; in 1758, v. 56, n. 2. POST-HORSES, charge per mile, v. 427. POSTERITY, prescribing rules to, ii. 417. POT, Mr., iv. 5, n. 1. POTT, Rev. Archdeacon, ii. 459. POTT, Mr., a surgeon, iv. 239. POTTER, Robert, translation of Aeschylus, iii. 256. POVERTY, 'All this excludes but one evil--poverty,' iii. 160; arguments for it, i. 441; a great evil, iv. 149, 152, 155, 157, 163, 351. POWELL, a clerk, iv. 223, n. 3. POWER, all power desirable, ii. 357; despotic, iii. 283; of the Crown, ii. 170. POWERSCOURT, Lord, v. 253. PRACTICE. See PRINCIPLES. PRAGUE, iii. 458. PRAISE, on compulsion, ii. 51; extravagant, iii. 225; iv. 82; value of it, iv. 32, 255, n. 2. PRATT, Chief Justice. See CAMDEN, Lord. PRAYER, arguments against it, v. 38; dead, for the, ii. 163; efficacy, its, v. 68; family prayer, v. 121; form of prayer, v. 365; Hume on Leechman's doctrine, v. 68, n. 4; Johnson designs a Book of Prayers, iv. 293, 376; offered a large sum for one, iv. 410; lies in prayers, iv. 295; reasoning on its nature unprofitable, ii. 178. PRAYERS, by Johnson, against inquisitive and perplexing thoughts, iv. 370, n. 3; before his last communion, iv. 416-7; before study, iii. 90; before the study of law, i. 489; Chambers, Catherine, for, ii. 43; death of his wife, on the, i. 235; Dictionary, on beginning vol. ii. of his, i. 255; Easter Day, 1777, iii. 99; engaging in Politicks with H----, i. 489; forgiveness for neglect of duties in married life, i. 240; January 1, 1753, i. 251; new scheme of life, i. 350; 'On my return to life,' i. 234, n. 2; Rambler, before the, i. 202; repentance and pardon, for, iv. 397; resolutions, on, i. 483; study of philosophy, on the, i. 302; Trinity, the, invoked, ii. 255. Prayers and Meditations, Johnson's, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476; publication, iv. 376, n. 4. PREACHERS, women, i. 463. PREACHING, above the capacity of the congregation, iv. 185; plain language needed, i. 459; ii. 123. Preceptor, The, i. 192. PRECISENESS, iv. 89. PRECOCITY, ii. 408. PREDESTINATION, ii. 104. PREFACES, Johnson's talent for, i. 292. PREMIER, i. 295, n. 1. PREMIUM-SCHEME, i. 318. PRENDERGAST (Prendergrass), an officer, ii. 182, 183, n. 1. Presbyterian, in the sense of Unitarian, ii. 408, n. 1. PRESBYTERIANS AND PRESBYTERIANISM, compared with Church of Rome, ii. 103; differ from it chiefly in forms, ii. 150; doctrine, ii. 104; form of prayer, no, ii. 104; frightened by Popery, v. 57. PRESCIENCE, of the Deity, iii. 290. PRESCRIPTION OF MURDER. See MURDER. Present State of England, iv. 311. PRESENT TIME, never happy, ii. 350. PRESENT TIMES, Johnson never inveighed against them, iii. 3. PRESS, awed by parliament as regards report of debates, i. 115; iii. 459-60; iv. 140, n. 1; complete freedom obtained, i. 116; Johnson attacks its liberty, ii. 60; vindicates it, ib., n. 3; discusses it with Dr. Parr, iv. 15, n. 5; Mansfield tries to stifle it, i. 116, n. 1; law of libel, iii. 16, n. 1; licentiousness, its, i. 116; debate on it, iv. 318, n. 3; prosecutions in 1764, ii. 60, n. 3; superfoetation, its, iii. 332. PRESS-GANGS, iii. 460. PRESTBURY, v. 432, n. 2. PRESTICK, ii. 271, n. 4. PRESTON, iii. 135, n. 1. PRESTON, Sir Charles, iv. 154. PRETENDER, the Young, account of his escape, v. 187-205, 264; dresses in women's clothes, v. 188; at Kingsburgh, v. 185, 189; shoes, ib.; in Rasay, v. 174, n. 1, 190-4; fears assassination, v. 194; speaks of Culloden, ib.; returns to Sky, v. 195; pretends to be a servant, v. 195, 196-7; his odd face, v. 196; goes to Mackinnon's country, v. 197; to Knoidart, v. 199; reward offered for him, v. 186, 199, n. 1; agitating a rebellion in 1752, i. 146, n. 2; base character, his, v. 200, n. 1; Charles III, ii. 253; Derby, march to, iii. 162; designation proper for him, v. 185, n. 4; Johnson sleeps in his bed, v. 185; London, in, i. 279, n. 5; v. 196