Prussia: Protestant tyranny, 173; a soldier's cloak, 189; military strength, 278. Public Men, wrong judgment about, 4. Punch's Almanack, quoted, 133. Pursuits, similarity in, 10. Puseyism, despised, 284, 285. Puzzle, language regarded as a, 153, 154. Rabelais, quotation, 165. Racehorses, illustration, 65. Radicalism, definition, 282, 283. Railways: affecting independence, 13-15; meditations in a French, 17; story in illustration of rudeness, 108, 109; distance from, 116; French accident, 218-220; moving huts, 261, 262; Stephenson's locomotive, 293; allusion, 309; journeys saved, 360; compared to sailing, 395. Rain: cause of accident, 219; prayers for, 221. Rank: a power for good, 5; conversation of French people of, 16; pursuit of, 27; discrimination in hospitality, 104; affecting friendship, 116; Differences (Essay X.), 130-147; social precedence, 130; land and money, 131; trades and professions, 132-135; unreal distinctions, 135; to be ignored, 136; English and Continental views, 136, 137; family without title, 138; affecting hospitality, 139-145; price, deference, 145-147; English admiration, 241, 242, 248, 249-252; connection with amusement, 383-401 _passim_. Rapidity, in letter-writing, 324, 325. Reading, in a foreign language, 154-158. Reading, Eng., speech, 223, 224. Reasoning, in letters, 384, 385. Rebels, contrasted with reformers, 280. Recreation, the purpose of amusement, 389. Reeve, Henry, knowledge of French, 152. Reformers, and rebels, 280, 281. Refinement: affecting family harmony, 64; companionship, 71; enhanced by wealth, 125, 126.