Persia, poetic models, 338.
(See Emerson's Poems, Saadi).
Pessimism, 286.
(See Optimism).
Philadelphia, Pa., society, 184.
Philanthropy, activity in 1820, 147.
Philolaus, 199.
Pie, fondness for, 269.
Pierce, John: the minister of Brookline, 11; "our clerical Pepys," 12.
Pindar, odes, 253.
(See Greek, Homer, etc.)
Plagiarism, 205, 206, 287, 288, 384.
(See Quotations, Mather, etc.)
Plato:
influence on Mary Emerson, 16, 17;
over Emerson, 22, 52, 173, 188, 299, 301;
youthful essay, 74;
Alcott's study, 150;
reading, 197;
borrowed thought, 205, 206;
Platonic idea, 222;
a Platonist, 267;
saints of Platonism, 298;
academy inscription, 365;
great authority, 380;
times quoted, 382;
Symposium and Phaedrus quoted, 387;
tableity, preëxistence, 391;
Diogenes dialogue, 401;
a Platonist, 411.
(See Emerson's Books, and Essays, Greek, etc.)