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.