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.