Pardoneres, ancient and modern, 18, 11;
Chaucer’s tale of, 18, 12.
Parental virtue, Heaven’s gift to children, 14, 14.
Paris, fighting in, 7, 3;
her own destruction, 8, 17;
ruins of, 17, 11, 6, 21;
state of gardens in, during the siege of, 5, 19 (note);
children killed in siege of, 8, 4.
Parker, Messrs., letter from, about sale of author’s books, with author’s reply, 14, 24.
Parliament, British, a luxury of squires, 1, 10;
debates of, a form of dog-fight, 6, 17;
houses of, worthy of destruction, 1, 7.
Party, in politics, its effects, 1, 7.
Pastoral happiness, 14, 21.
Patroclus, sorrow of Achilles’ horses at death of, 9, 14.
Pawnbrokers (see Monte di Pieta).
Peasant and clerk, root of contest between, in Germany, 15, 5.