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English poet, vil, 199.
"Prisoner of Chillon," Byron's,
xiii, 162, 169.

Private judgment, Luther insists on
right of, vi, 240.

Privy Council, English, on the pro-
prietary estates of the Penns,
xi, 76; Franklin insulted before,
by Solicitor-General Wedder-
burn, 81.

Prize cases, Marshall's decisions
in, xi, 357.

Proclamation of Emancipation,

Lincoln's, the culminating event
in Civil War, xii, 293.
Prodicus of Ceos.-Greek philoso-
pher, 1, 307, 250.
Propellers, Submerged, Ericsson
engaged in trial of, xiv, 211.
Propertius, Sextus.-(51-15 B. C.)
Roman elegiac poet, i, 341.
Property, Roman laws of, iii, 73;
Jewish laws in relation to, xi,
25.

Prophet, The, Tecumseh's brother,
xil, 32.

Prophets, School of the, ii, 143;
Old Testament, 164.
Propylæa, Decorations of the, iii,
131, 182.

Proserpine (Persephone), abducted
wife of Pluto, Rape of, i, 112.
"Prosperpina," Ruskin's, xiv, 100.
Protagoras. (481-411 B. C.)
Greek sophist, investigations of,
i, 207, 250, 257.

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Protection,

Alexander Hamilton

proposes, xi, 203; Webster on
tariffs and protective industries,
xii, 161.

Protection an injury to the South,
Calhoun's views on, xii, 197.
Protective Policy, American, Father
of the (Clay), xii, 100.
Protector, Lord, of England, Crom-
well appointed (1653), viii, 228;
the Great, xiii, 192.

Protestant exiles return from
Geneva to England after the
death of Queen Mary, vi, 282;
Protestant Huguenots and their
conflict, under Henry of Na-
varre, with the Catholic League,
viii, 128-135.
Protestantism, extinction of, Te
Deums offered in Catholic
churches in France for the, vi,
328; spirit of, vii, 139; Queen
Elizabeth establishes, it as re-
ligion of England, viii, 82, 398.
Protestant Reformation, vi 217,
229, 235, 241; Protestant re-
ligion, Louis XIV's insults to
and persecutions of, viii, 279.
Protestants, vi, 242; in France,
persecution of, vii, 166, 169;
viii, 279.

Protestants of Holland and France,
viii, 83.

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"Provincial Letters," Pascal's,
viii, 325.

Provost, Mrs., Jefferson marries
(1782), xi, 301.

Prussia, King of, makes Lord
Macaulay 8 member of the
Prussian Order of Merit, xiii,
278.
Prussia, Military aggrandizement
as a national policy in, started
by Frederic the Great, viii, 400;
furnishes troops at bidding of
France to fight Russia, x, 252;
aggrandizement, 257; parlia-
ment, 280; dominance, 289;
military burdens of, 309; Es-
tates and Diet of, 268; war
with Austria, 287; war with
France, 251, 298, 299; autoc-
racy of, xv, 206, 207.
Pruth, Battle of the, x, 153.
Psalms of David, ii, 116, 225, 227.
Psyche, Lady, of Tennyson's "The
Princess," xiii, 460.
"Psychology, Principles of," Spen-
cer's, xiv, 134, 150.
Ptolemais, city in Cyrene, ii, 399.
Ptolemies, The, Magnificent reigns

of, at Alexandria, iii, 313; land
of the, xiv, 356; Macedonian
kings of Egypt, 376.
Ptolemy II, Philadelphus.-(d. 247

B. C.). King of Egypt, ii, 378.
Ptolemy VIII, Soter. (d. 81
B. C.). King of Egypt, invades
Judea and takes Jerusalem by
assault, ii, 377.
Ptolemy of Alexandria.-(1st half
2nd cent., A. D.). His observa-
tions and labors in astronomical
science, iii, 171, 173; his Alex-
andrian library, xiii, 67.
Pufendorf, Baron S. von.-(1632-

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94.) German jurist and his.
torian, xiii, 27.

Pulpit, Power and dignity of the
Christian, iv, 229-231.
Pultowa, Southern Russia, Siege
and battle of (1709), Peter the
Great is here victorious over
Charles XII of Sweden, viii, 352.
Punishments for crime under Ro-
man law, iii, 69.

"Purgatorio," Dante's, vi, 46, 48.
Purgatory invented by the genius
of Monasticism, v, 140.
Puritan controversy in time of
Cranmer, vi, 289; influences
(Puritan), xi, 250.

Puritan doctrine of Separation of
the Church from the State, xiii,
49.

Puritans, The, vii, 57; xi, 27;

English, 29, 33; persecution of
Quakers, 34; history of, 45;
Adams's family sturdy type of,
217-222.

Puritans of England, viii, 138;
xiii, 373, 375, 379.
Puritans of New England, xi, 36-
38, 219.

Puritans of N. E., Hollanders of
N. Y., Quakers of Pa., Presby-
terians of the South, N. J., and
Pa., all of Calvinistic training,
xi, 43.
Putnam, Israel.-(1718-90.) Amer-
ican Revolutionary general, xi,
117, 118, 123, 134, 177.
Pym, John.(1584-1643.) Puritan
statesman and member of Long
Parliament, viii, 216, 224, 243.
Pyramid, The great, 1, 294; ii, 28;
vi, 206.

Pyramids, Egyptian, iii, 85, 87.
Pyrenees, Treaty of the, under ad-
ministration of Mazarin, viii,

203.

Pythagoras.-(582-500 B.C.) Greek
philosopher and mathematician,
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Rambouillet (Catherine), Marquise

de. (1588-1665.) French social
leader, vii, 229, 231, 232.
Rameses. Treasure city of Egypt,
ii, 89.

Rameses II, the Egyptian King
(1300 B. C.), palace of, i, 296;
from whom Moses fled, ii, 89,
99; battle field of, 338.
Rameses the Great, of Egypt, his
immense fleet, iii, 197; his
colossal army, 239; xiv, 377,
382.
Ramillies, Battle of (May, 1706),

vii, 201; viii, 286.
Ramoth-Gilead, ii, 272, 275, 276.
Randolph, Edmund.-(1753-1813.)
American statesman, xi, 156,
191, 266.

Randolph, John.-(1 7 7 3-1 8 3 3.)
American statesman, xi, 304,
328.

Randolph, Peyton. (1 723-75.)

Speaker of the House of Bur-
gesses (1776), xi, 271, 273.
Ranke, Leopold von.-(1795-1886.)
German historian, xiii, 282.
Rape under Roman law, iii, 69.
Raphael, Santi. (1 4 8 3-15 20.)
Italian painter, 1, 311; vi, 194,
196, 197, 199, 212, 430; vii,
113, 291.
Raphael's Madonnas, vi, 187.
Rapin, Paul de.-(1 6 6 1-1 7 2 5.)
French historian, viii, 281.
Rappahannock, Valley of the, xii,
289; river, 293.

Raritan, passage of the, Alexander
Hamilton at the, xi, 177.
Rassam, Hormuzd.-(b. 1826.) As-
syriologist, xiv, 369, 372, 374.
Räthin, Frau, Goethe's wife, xiii,
397.

Rationalism of Abélard, v, 207.
Ratisbon, Diet of, vi, 342.

Ravenna, Italy, xiii, 167, 180.

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Realism in the Middle Ages, V,
204.

Realist, Abélard a, vii, 35.
Reality, what is it? vi, 423.
Reason and Authority, vi, 237.
Rebellion, War of the (American),
xi, 188.

Rebmann, M., discovers Kiliman-
jaro, xiv, 336.

Récamier, Jacques Rose.

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· (1751-
1828.) Lyons banker, husband
of Mme. Récamier, vii, 233, 235;
twice loses his fortune, 238, 244.
Récamier, Madame. (1777-1849.)
French "Woman of Society," vii,
227; birth, 232; marriage and
secluded life for a time, 233;
her beauty, 233; social position,
and friendship with Mme. de

Staël, 235; attracts but later
displeases Napoleon, 236, 237;
her husband loses his fortune
and she sells her jewels, 238;
sought in marriage by Prince
of Russia, 239; clings to her
husband and dismisses the
Prince, 239, 240; friendship
with M. Ballanche, her great
admirer, 241, 242; travels in
Italy, but soon returns to Paris,
242, 243; social triumphs, 244;
second failure of M. Récamier,
244; home at Abbaye-au-Bois,
244; makes friends of Château-
briand and Duke of Montmo-

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vii,

Reformation, Dawn of the.
Wyclif, John.
Reformation, English, vi, 255;
117, 138; viii, 61, 96. See
Cranmer, Thomas.
Reform Bill, English (1832), ix,
254; x, 31, 39, 40, 42, 43, 60,
89, 93, 95, 117; xi, 207; xiii,
225, 255, 264, 273.
Reform movement, English, ix, 267.
Reform Parliament, English, x, 53.
Reformation, Protestant, Luther

head of, vi, 217; great ideas of,
331. See Luther, Martin.
Reformation in England under
Henry VIII, vi, 256; no life
until funeral pyres were lighted,
277; makes strides after the
death of Queen Mary, 282, 283;
the Counter-Reformation, 295;

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Reid, Rev. Dr., projects Interns-
tional Institute, xiv, 255.
Reign of Peace, time of prophet
Isaiah, ii, 320.

Reign of Terror (1793-94), ix, 86,
194; xiii, 51.
"Religion of

the Fashionable
World," estimate of, vii, 312.
Religion: What is the object in, i,
28; how do the various re-
ligions compare, 28.
Religious contemplation, v, 138;
faith, ii, 27; liberty, vi, 242.
Religious enthusiasm, vil, 109.
See Theresa, Saint.
Religious Freedom, Statute of Vir-
ginia for, Jefferson's, xi, 315,
316.

Religious liberty, Struggle to se-
cure, viii, 143.

Religious life, decline of under
Judges, ii, 137; of 14th century
treated of by Chaucer in his
"Canterbury Tales," vi, 85;
liberty, 242.
Religious systems fated to become
corrupt, i, 32; of Arabia, v, 25.
Rembrandt, or Van Rijn.—(1607-
69.) Dutch painter, vii, 364.

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