Politics: conventional, 15; French narrowness, 18, 19; coffee-house, 28; inherited opinions, 93; opinions of guests to be respected, 105, 106; affecting friendship, 113-115; affected by ignorance of language, 148, 150, 160; adaptation of Greek language, 158; disabilities arising from religion, 161-174; divine government, 229; genteel ignorance, 254-256; votes sought, 257; affected by national ignorance, 277-279; distinctions confounded, 280-284; verses on letter-writing, 335. Ponsard, François, quotations, 304, 335. Popes: their infidelity, 162; temporal power, 255, 256. (See _Roman Catholicism_, etc.) Popular Notions, often wrong, 292. Postage, cheap, 336. Postal Union, a forerunner, 159. Post-cards, affecting correspondence, 329, 330, 335. Poverty: allied with shrewdness, 22; affecting friendship (Essay IX.), 116, 119-129; priestly visits, 183; Littré's service, 210; ignorance about, 258-260; French rhyme, 304; not always the concomitant of Bohemianism, 309; not despised, 314; in epistolary forms, 317. Prayers: reading in French, 158; averting calamities, 220-231 _passim_. Prejudices: about great men, 4; national, 7; of English gentlewomen, 382. Pride: of a wife, 59; in family wealth, 66; refusal of gifts, 68; in shooting, 390. Priesthood: Priests and Women (Essay XIII.), 175-204; meeting feminine dependence, 178; affectionate interest, 179; representing God, 182; sympathy, 183; marriages and burials, 184; baptism and confirmation, 185; death, 186; Queen Victoria's reflections, 186, 187; æsthetic interest, 188; vestments, 189; architecture, 190; music, 191; oratory and dignity, 192; heaven and hell, 193; partisanship, 194; association in benevolence, 195; influence of leisure, 196; custom and ceremony, 197; holy seasons, 198; celibacy, 199; marriage in former times, 200; sceptical sons, 201; confessional, 202; assumption of superiority, 203; perfunctory goodness, 204. Primogeniture, affecting family ties, 66. Privacy: of a host, to be respected, 109; in letters, 350, 357. Procrastination: in correspondence, 318, 319, 356; anecdotes, 366-369. Profanity, definition, 208. Professions, contrasted with trades, 132, 133. Progress, five stages in the study of language, 153-157. Promptness: in correspondence, 316, 317, 329; in business, 368. Propriety, cloak for vice, 297. Prose: an art, 154; eschewed by Tennyson, 289. Prosody, rival of literature, 154. Protestantism: in France, 19, 165, 256; Prussian tyranny, 173; exclusion of music, 191; clerical marriages, 200, 201; auricular confession, 201-203; liberty infringed, 281. Providence and Law (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_.