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.