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.
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,
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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.
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.
· (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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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;
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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