328.
PLEASING. 'We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody,' ii. 22.
PLEASURE. 'Every pleasure is of itself a good,' iii. 327; 'Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,' iii. 176; 'When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be the conclusion,' iii. 250; 'When pleasure can be had it is fit to catch it,' iii. 131.
Plenum. 'There are objections against a plenum and objections against a vacuum; yet one of them must certainly be true,' i. 444.
PLUME. 'This, Sir, is a new plume to him,' ii. 210.
POCKET. 'I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket,' v. 145.
POCKETS. See above under IMMORTALITY.
POETRY. 'I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry,' v. 35; 'There is here a great deal of what is called poetry,' iii. 374.
POINT. 'Whenever I write anything the public make a point to know nothing about it' (Goldsmith), iii. 252.
POLES. 'If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody that stood in the way,' iii. 264.
POLITENESS. 'Politeness is fictitious benevolence,' v. 82.
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.
PRANCE. 'Sir, if a man has a mind to prance he must study at Christ Church and All Souls,' ii. 67, n. 2.
PRECEDENCY. See above, FLEA.
PRE-EMINENCE. 'Painful pre-eminence' (Addison), iii. 82, n. 2.
PREJUDICE. 'He set out with a prejudice against prejudices,' ii. 51.
PRESENCE. 'Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive,' ii. 472; 'Sir, I honour Derrick for his presence of mind,' i. 457.
PRIG. 'Harris is a prig, and a bad prig,' iii. 245; 'What! a prig, Sir?' 'Worse, Madam, a Whig. But he is both,' iii. 294.
PRINCIPLES. 'Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know, that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,' v. 359.
PROBABILITIES. 'Balancing probabilities,' iv. 12.
PRODIGALITY. See above, PARSIMONY.
PROFESSION. 'No man would be of any profession as simply opposed to not being of it,' ii. 128.
PROPAGATE. 'I would advise no man to marry, Sir, who is not likely to propagate understanding,' ii. 109, n. 2.
PROPORTION. 'It is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them,' ii. 12.
PROSPECTS. 'Norway, too, has noble wild prospects,' i. 425.
PROSPERITY. 'Sir, you see in him vulgar prosperity,' iii. 410.
PROVE. 'How will you prove that, Sir?' i. 410, n. 2.
PROVERB. 'A man should take care not to be made a proverb,' iii. 57.
PRY. 'He may still see, though he may not pry,' iii. 61.
PUBLIC. 'Sir, he is one of the many who have made themselves public without making themselves known,' i. 498.
PUDDING. 'Yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less,' ii. 94.
Puerilites. 'Il y a beaucoup de puerilites dans la guerre,' iii. 355.
PURPOSES. 'The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes,' iv. 396, n. 4.
PUTRESCENCE. 'You would not have me for fear of pain perish in putrescence,' iv. 240, n. 1.
Q.
Quare. 'A writ of quare adhaesit pavimento' (wags of the Northern Circuit), iii. 261, n. 2.
QUARREL. 'Perhaps the less we quarrel, the more we hate,' iii. 417, n. 5.
QUARRELS. 'Men will be sometimes surprised into quarrels,' iii. 277, n. 2.
QUESTIONING. 'Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen,' ii. 472.
QUIET. 'Your primary consideration is your own quiet,' iii. 11.
QUIVER. 'The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,' iii. 38, n. 6.
R.
RAGE. 'He has a rage for saying something where there is nothing to be said,' i. 329.
RAGS. 'Rags, Sir, will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it,' iv. 312.
RAINED. 'If it rained knowledge I'd hold out my hand,' iii. 344.
RASCAL. 'I'd throw such a rascal into the river,' i. 469; 'With a little more spoiling you will, I think, make me a complete rascal,' iii.