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.