402; sinking table, ii. 392; society, compared with London for, iii. 253; Sorbonne, ii. 397, 399; v. 406; St. Cloud, ii. 397; St. Denis, ii. 399; St. Eustatia, ii. 398; St. Germain, ii. 399; St. Roque, ii. 390; Sundays, ii. 394; Tournelle, ii. 393; Trianon, ii. 395; Tuilleries, ii. 392, 394; iv. 282, n. 2; University, i. 321, n. 6; v. 91, n. 1; Valet de place, ii. 398. Parisenus and Parismenus, iv. 8, n. 3. PARISH, co-extensive with the manor, ii. 243; compels men to find security for the maintenance of their family, iii. 287; election of ministers, ii. 244; neglected ones, iii. 437. PARISH-CLERKS, iv. 125. PARKER, Chief Baron, i. 45, n. 4. PARKER, John, of Browsholme, v. 431. PARKER, Sackville, the Oxford book-seller, iv. 308. PARLIAMENT, awed the press, i. 115; corruption alleged, iii. 206; crown influence, ii. 118; debates: See DEBATES; disadvantages of a seat, iv. 220; dissolution: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS; duration immaterial, ii. 73; bill for shortening it, ib., n. 2; iii. 460; duration of parliaments from 1714 to 1773, v. 102, n. 2; governing by parliamentary corruption, ii. 117; Highlander's notion of one, v. 193; Houses of Commons and of Lords: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS and HOUSE OF LORDS; Johnson projects an historical account, i. 155; suggested as a member, ii. 136-9; larger council, a, ii. 355; Long Parliament, ii. 118; members free from arrest by a bailiff, iv. 391, n. 2; Pitt's motion for reform, iv. 165, n. 1; speakers and places, iv. 223; speeches, effect produced by, iii. 233-5; upstarts getting into it, ii. 339; use of it, ii. 355. Parliamentary History, Johnson's Debates, i. 503, 508; prosecution of Whitehead and Dodsley, i. 125, n. 3. Parliamentary Journals, i. 117. PARLOUR, company for the, ii. 120, n. 1. PARNELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Contentment, iii. 122, n. 2; drank too freely, iii. 155; iv. 54, n. 1, 398; Goldsmith writes his Life, ii. 166; Hermit, a disputed passage in his, iii. 220, 392-3; Johnson writes his epitaph, iv. 54; v. 404; and his Life, iv. 54; Milton, compared with, v. 434; Night Piece, ii. 328, n. 2. PARODIES, Johnson's parodies of ballads, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4; parodies of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, style. PARR, Rev. Dr. Samuel, describes himself as the second Grecian in England, iv. 385, n. 2; Johnson, argues with, iv. 15; character, describes, iv. 47, n. 2; epitaph, writes, iv. 423-4,444-6; Life, thinks of writing, iv. 443; Latin scholarship, praises, iv. 385, n. 3; reputation, defends, iv. 423; writes him a letter of recommendation, iv. 15, n. 5; neglected at Cambridge, i. 77, n. 4; Priestley, defends, iv. 238, n. 1, 434; Romilly, letter to, iv. 15, n. 5; Sheridan's system of oratory, i. 394, n. 2; Steevens, character of, iii. 281, n. 3; Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2; White's Bampton Lectures, iv. 443. PARRHASIUS, iv. 104, n. 2. PARSIMONY, quagmire of it, iii. 348; timorous, iv. 154; wretchedness, iii. 317. PARSON, the life of a. See CLERGYMEN. PARSONS, the impostor in the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 406, n. 3. PARTNEY, ii. 17. PARTY, Burke's definition, ii. 223, n. 1; sticking to party, ii. 223; v. 36. PASCAL, Johnson gives Boswell Les Pensees, iii. 380; read by Hannah More, iv. 88, n. 1. Passenger, iv. 85, n. 1. PASSION-WEEK. See JOHNSON, Passion-week. PASSIONS, purged by tragedy, iii. 39. Pastern, defined, i. 293, 378. Pastor Fido, iii. 346. PATAGONIA, v. 387. Pater Noster, the, v. 121. PATERNITY, its rights lessened, iii. 262. PATERSON, Samuel, ii. 175; iii. 90; iv. 269, n. 1. PATERSON, a student of painting, iii. 90; iv. 227, n. 3, 269. Paterson against Alexander, ii. 373. PATRICK, Bishop, iii. 58. Patriot, The, by Johnson, account of it, ii. 286, 288; written on a Saturday, i. 373, n. 2; election-committees described, iv. 74, n. 3. Patriot, The, a tragedy by J. Simpson, iii. 28. Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3. PATRIOTISM, last refuge of a scoundrel, ii. 348. PATRIOTS, defined, iv. 87, n, 2; Dilly's 'patriotic friends,' iii. 66, 68; 'don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87; patriotic groans, iii. 78. PATRONAGE, Church, ii. 242-6; rights of patrons, ii. 149. PATRONS, of authors, iv. 172; defined, i. 264, n. 4; harmful to learning, v. 59; mentioned in the Rambler, i. 259, n. 4; Letter to Chesterfield, i. 262; Vanity of Human Wishes, i. 264. PATTEN, Dr., iv. 162. PATTISON, Mark, General Oglethorpe, i. 127, n. 4; Oxford in 1770, ii. 445, n. 1; Bishop Warburton, v. 81, n. 1. PAUL, Father. See SARPI. PAUL, Sir G.O., v. 322, n. 1. PAUSANIAS, v. 220. PAVIA, ii. 125, n. 5. PAYNE, Mr. E.J., defends Burke's character, iii. 46, n. 1; describes his love of Virgil, iii. 193, n. 3. PAYNE, John, account of him, i. 317, n. 1; Ivy Lane Club, member of the, iv. 435; Johnson's friend in 1752, i. 243; publishes the first numbers of The Idler, i. 330, n. 3; mentioned, iv. 369, n.

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