, n. 2, 201; Voltaire's reflections on him, v. 199. PRICE, Archdeacon, v. 454. PRICE, Dr. Richard account of him, iv. 434; Hume, dines with, ii. 441, n. 5; Johnson would not meet him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; London-born children, iv. 210. PRICE, ----, a vain Welsh scholar, v. 438. Prideauxs Connection, iv. 311. PRIESTLEY, Dr. Joseph, Boswell attacks him, iv. 238, n. 1, 433; Parr defends him, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; discoveries in chemistry, iv. 237, n. 6, 238; Elwall's trial, account of, ii. 164, n. 5; Franklin praises his moderation, iv. 434; Gibbon and Horsley attack him, iv. 437; Heberden, Dr., a benefactor to him, iv. 228, n. 2; house burnt by rioters, iv. 238, n. 1; 'index-scholar,' iv. 407, n. 4; Johnson's estimate of his writings, iv. 407, n. 4; interview with, iv. 434; on the pronunciation of Latin, ii. 404, n. 1; Mackintosh's character of him, iv. 443; Philosophical necessity, iii. 291, n. 2; iv. 433-4; Shelburne, Lord, lives with, iv. 191, n. 4; theological works, ii. 124. PRIESTS, enemies to liberty, v. 255, n. 5. PRIME MINISTER, name and office, ii. 355; n. 2; not in Johnson's Dictionary, i. 295, n. 1; no real one since Walpole's time, ii. 355. PRIMROSE, Lady, v. 201. PRINCE, the bookseller, i. 291. PRINCE FREDERICK (brother of George III), v. 185, n. 1, PRINCE OF WALES, happiest of men, i. 368, n. 3; iv. 182. PRINCE OF WALES (Frederick, father of George III), generosity, shows, v. 188, n. I; Mallet's dependence on him, i. 329, n. 3; Pope's repartee to him, iv. 50; Vane, Anne, his mistress, v. 49, n. 4. PRINCE OF WALES (George III), v. 185, n. 1. PRINCE OF WALES (George IV), Boswell carries up an address to him, iv. 248, n. 2; insolence, his, iv. 270, n. 2; Johnson pleased with his knowledge of the Scriptures as a child, ii. 33, n. 3; language as a young man, his, ib.; Thurlow and Sir John Ladd, iv. 412, n. 1. PRINCESS OF WALES, Dowager, (mother of George III), presents to Lord Bute, iv. 127, n. 3. Prince Titi, ii. 391. Prince Voltiger, ii. 108. PRINCIPLE, goodness founded upon it, i. 443; things founded on no principle, v. 159. PRINCIPLES, general, must be had from books, ii. 361. PRINCIPLES and practice, i. 418, n. 3; ii. 341; iii. 282; iv. 396; v. 210, 359. PRINGLE, Sir John, Johnson could not agree with him, iii. 65; v. 376, 384; madness, on the cause of, iii. 176, n. 1; President of the Royal Society, iii. 65, n. 1; Smith's Wealth of Nations, ii. 430; mentioned, ii. 59, n. 3, 164; iii. 7, 15, n. 2, 247; v. 97. PRINTER'S DEVIL, iv. 99. PRINTERS, keeping their coach, ii. 226; wages of journeymen, ii. 323. PRINTING, early printed books, v. 459; effect on learning, iii. 37; people without it barbarous, ii. 170. PRIOR, Sir James, Johnson's projected Life of Goldsmith, iii. 100, n. 1. PRIOR, Matthew, amorous pedantry, iii. 192, n. 2; Animula vagtila, translation of, iii. 420, n. 2; borrowing, instances of his, iii. 396; Chameleon, ii. 158, n. I; Despairing Shepherd, ii. 78, n. 2; Goldsmith republishes two of his poems, iii. 192, n. 2; Gualterus Danistonus ad Amicos, translation of, iii. 119, n. 6; Hailes, Lord, censured by, iii. 192; lady's book, a, iii. 192; love verses, ii. 78; 'My noble, lovely little Peggy,' iii. 425, n. 2; Paulo Purganti, iii. 192; Pitcairne, translation from, v. 58. PRIOR PARK, v. 80, n. 5. PRISONS, Johnson's praise of a good keeper, iii. 433. See under LONDON, Newgate, &c. PRITCHARD, Mrs., the actress, good but affected, v. 126; Irene, acted, i. 197; in common life a vulgar idiot, iv. 243; mechanical player, ii. 348; mentioned, ii. 92. PRIVATE CONVERSATION, iv. 216. PRIZE-FIGHTING, v. 229. PRIZE VERSES, in the Gent. Mag., i. 91, n. 2, 136. PRIZES, money arising from, ii. 353, n. 4. 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.

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