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.