352; 'Sir Thomas civil, his lady nothing,' v. 449.
NOVELTIES. 'This is a day of novelties,' v. 120.
NURSE. 'There is nothing against which an old man should be so much upon his guard as putting himself to nurse,' ii. 474.
O.
OBJECT. 'Nay, Sir, if you are born to object I have done with you,' v. 151.
OBJECTIONS. 'So many objections might be made to everything, that nothing could overcome them but the necessity of doing something,' ii. 128; 'There is no end of objections,' iii. 26.
OBLIVION. 'That was a morbid oblivion,' v. 68.
ODD. 'Nothing odd will do long,' ii. 449.
ON'T. 'I'll have no more on't,' iv. 300.
OPPRESSION. 'Unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species of oppression,' v. 82, n. 2.
ORCHARD. 'If I come to an orchard,' &c., ii. 96.
OUT. 'A man does not love to go to a place from whence he comes out exactly as he went in,' iv. 90.
OUTLAW. 'Sir, he leads the life of an outlaw,' ii. 375.
OUT-VOTE. 'Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them,' iii. 234.
OVERFLOWED. 'The conversation overflowed and drowned him,' ii. 122.
OWL. 'Placing a timid boy at a public school is forcing an owl upon day,' iv. 312.
P.
PACKHORSE. 'A carrier who has driven a packhorse,' &c., v. 395.
PACKTHREAD. 'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.
PACTOLUS. 'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have noticed you,' iv. 320.
PAIN. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.
PAINTED. 'Hailes's Annals of Scotland have not that painted form which is the taste of this age,' iii. 58.
PAINTING. 'Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,' iv. 321.
PALACES. 'We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because one cottage is burning,' ii. 90.
PAMPER. 'No, no, Sir; we must not pamper them,' iv. 133.
PANT. 'Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I'll make both time and space pant,' iv. 25.
PARADOX. 'No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 73.
PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.
PARENTS. 'Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbers and assassins,' &c., iii. 377, n. 3.
PARNASSUS. See CRITICISM.
PARSIMONY. 'He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchedness of parsimony,' iii. 317.
PARSONS. 'This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive,' iv. 76.
PATRIOTISM. 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' ii. 348.
PATRIOTS. 'Patriots spring up like mushrooms' (Sir R. Walpole), iv. 87, n. 2; 'Don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87.
PATRON. 'The Patron and the jail,' i. 264.
PECCANT. 'Be sure that the steam be directed to thy head, for that is the peccant part,' ii. 100.
PEGGY. 'I cannot be worse, and so I'll e'en take Peggy,' ii. 101.
PELTING. 'No, Sir, if they had wit they should have kept pelting me with pamphlets,' ii. 308.
PEN. 'No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had,' iv. 29.
PEOPLE. 'The lairds, instead of improving their country, diminished their people,' v. 300.
Per. 'Per mantes notos et flumina nota,' i. 49, n. 4; v. 456, n. 1.
PERFECT. 'Endeavour to be as perfect as you can in every respect,' iv. 338.
PERISH. 'Let the authority of the English government perish rather than be maintained by iniquity,' ii. 121.
PETTY. 'These are the petty criticisms of petty wits,' i. 498.
PHILOSOPHER. 'I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in' (O. Edwards), iii. 305.
PHILOSOPHICAL. 'We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer,.... but we find no such philosophical day-labourer,' v. 328.
Philosophus. 'Magis philosophus quam Christianus,' ii. 127.
PHILOSOPHY. 'It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence,' v. 114, n. 1.
PICTURE. 'Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind I know not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture,' iv. 4.
PIETY. 'A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety,' iv. 289.
PIG. 'Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig,' iv. 373; 'It is said the only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him back by the tail,' v. 355.
PILLOW. 'That will do--all that a pillow can do,' iv. 411.
PISTOL. 'When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it' (Colley Cibber) ii. 100.
PITY. 'We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards,' iii. 11.
PLAYER. 'A player--a showman--a fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,' ii. 234.
PLEASANT. 'Live pleasant' (Burke), i. 344.
PLEASE. 'It is very difficult to please a man against his will,' iii. 69.
PLEASED. 'To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is doing a very great thing,' iii.