P.
PACKHORSE. 'A carrier who has driven a packhorse,' &c., v. 395.
PACKTHREAD. 'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread,
I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.
PACTOLUS. 'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have noticed you,' iv. 320.
PAIN. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.
PAINTED. 'Hailes's Annals of Scotland have not that painted form which is the taste of this age,' iii. 58.
PAINTING. 'Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,' iv. 321.
PALACES. 'We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because one cottage is burning,' ii. 90.
PAMPER. 'No, no, Sir; we must not pamper them,' iv. 133.
PANT. 'Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I'll make both time and space pant,' iv. 25.
PARADOX. 'No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 73.
PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.
PARENTS. 'Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbers and assassins,' &c., iii. 377, n. 3.
PARNASSUS. See CRITICISM.
PARSIMONY. 'He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchedness of parsimony,' iii. 317.
PARSONS. 'This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive,' iv. 76.
PATRIOTISM. 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' ii. 348.
PATRIOTS. 'Patriots spring up like mushrooms' (Sir R. Walpole), iv.
87, n. 2;
'Don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87.
PATRON. 'The Patron and the jail,' i. 264.
PECCANT. 'Be sure that the steam be directed to thy head, for that is the peccant part,' ii. 100.
PEGGY. 'I cannot be worse, and so I'll e'en take Peggy,' ii. 101.
PELTING. 'No, Sir, if they had wit they should have kept pelting me with pamphlets,' ii. 308.
PEN. 'No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had,' iv. 29.
PEOPLE. 'The lairds, instead of improving their country, diminished their people,' v. 300.
Per. 'Per mantes notos et flumina nota,' i. 49, n. 4; v. 456, n. 1.
PERFECT. 'Endeavour to be as perfect as you can in every respect,' iv. 338.
PERISH. 'Let the authority of the English government perish rather than be maintained by iniquity,' ii. 121.
PETTY. 'These are the petty criticisms of petty wits,' i. 498.
PHILOSOPHER. 'I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in' (O. Edwards), iii. 305.
PHILOSOPHICAL. 'We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer,…. but we find no such philosophical day-labourer,' v. 328.
Philosophus. 'Magis philosophus quam Christianus,' ii. 127.
PHILOSOPHY. 'It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence,' v. 114, n. 1.
PICTURE. 'Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind I know not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture,' iv. 4.
PIETY. 'A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety,' iv. 289.
PIG. 'Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig,'
iv. 373;
'It is said the only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him
back by the tail,' v. 355.
PILLOW. 'That will do—all that a pillow can do,' iv. 411.
PISTOL. 'When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it' (Colley Cibber) ii. 100.
PITY. 'We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards,' iii. 11.
PLAYER. 'A player—a showman—a fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,' ii. 234.
PLEASANT. 'Live pleasant' (Burke), i. 344.
PLEASE. 'It is very difficult to please a man against his will,' iii. 69.
PLEASED. 'To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is doing a very great thing,' iii. 328.
PLEASING. 'We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody,' ii. 22.
PLEASURE. 'Every pleasure is of itself a good,' iii. 327;
'Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,' iii. 176;
'When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be the conclusion,'
iii. 250;
'When pleasure can be had it is fit to catch it,' iii. 131.
Plenum. 'There are objections against a plenum and objections against a vacuum; yet one of them must certainly be true,' i. 444.
PLUME. 'This, Sir, is a new plume to him,' ii. 210.
POCKET. 'I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket,' v. 145.
POCKETS. See above under IMMORTALITY.
POETRY. 'I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry,' v. 35;
'There is here a great deal of what is called poetry,' iii. 374.
POINT. 'Whenever I write anything the public make a point to know nothing about it' (Goldsmith), iii. 252.
POLES. 'If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody that stood in the way,' iii. 264.
POLITENESS. 'Politeness is fictitious benevolence,' v. 82.
POOR. 'A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization,' ii. 130; 'Resolve never to be poor,' iv. 163.
PORT. 'It is rowing without a port,' iii. 255.
See CLARET.
POST. 'Sir, I found I must have gilded a rotten post,' i. 266, n. 1.
POSTS. 'If you have the best posts we will have you tied to them and whipped,' v. 292.
POUND. 'Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms and consider any single atom; it is to be sure good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church,' i. 440.
POVERTY. 'When I was running about this town a very poor fellow,
I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty,' i. 441.
POWER. 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have—Power'
(Boulton), ii. 459.
PRACTICE. 'He does not wear out his principles in practice'
(Beauclerk), iii. 282.
PRAISE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 323;
'I know nobody who blasts by praise as you do,' iv. 8l;
'Praise and money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind,' iv. 242;
'There is no sport in mere praise, when people are all of a mind,'
v. 273.
PRAISES. 'He who praises everybody praises nobody,' iii. 225, n. 3.
PRANCE. 'Sir, if a man has a mind to prance he must study at
Christ Church and All Souls,' ii. 67, n. 2.
PRECEDENCY. See above, FLEA.
PRE-EMINENCE. 'Painful pre-eminence' (Addison), iii. 82, n. 2.
PREJUDICE. 'He set out with a prejudice against prejudices,' ii. 51.
PRESENCE. 'Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive,' ii. 472; 'Sir, I honour Derrick for his presence of mind,' i. 457.
PRIG. 'Harris is a prig, and a bad prig,' iii. 245;
'What! a prig, Sir?' 'Worse, Madam, a Whig. But he is both,' iii. 294.
PRINCIPLES. 'Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know, that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,' v. 359.
PROBABILITIES. 'Balancing probabilities,' iv. 12.
PRODIGALITY. See above, PARSIMONY.
PROFESSION. 'No man would be of any profession as simply opposed to not being of it,' ii. 128.
PROPAGATE. 'I would advise no man to marry, Sir, who is not likely to propagate understanding,' ii. 109, n. 2.
PROPORTION. 'It is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them,' ii. 12.
PROSPECTS. 'Norway, too, has noble wild prospects,' i. 425.
PROSPERITY. 'Sir, you see in him vulgar prosperity,' iii. 410.
PROVE. 'How will you prove that, Sir?' i. 410, n. 2.
PROVERB. 'A man should take care not to be made a proverb,' iii. 57.
PRY. 'He may still see, though he may not pry,' iii. 61.
PUBLIC. 'Sir, he is one of the many who have made themselves public without making themselves known,' i. 498.
PUDDING. 'Yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less,' ii. 94.
Puérilités. 'Il y a beaucoup de puérilités dans la guerre,' iii. 355.
PURPOSES. 'The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes,' iv. 396, n. 4.
PUTRESCENCE. 'You would not have me for fear of pain perish in putrescence,' iv. 240, n. 1.