--what care necessary in the employment of; when to be distinguished
from the preterits of their verbs.

_Perfect tense_, defined.
--_Perf. tense_ of indic., as referring to time relatively fut.

_Period_, or _full stop_, its pause.
--_Period_, or _circuit_, nature of.
--_Period_, probably the oldest of the points; how first used:
--how used in Hebrew:
--what used to mark:
--Rules for the use of:
--not required when short sentences are rehearsed as examples:
--whether to be applied to letters written for numbers:
--with other points set after it:
--whether proper after Arabic figures used as ordinals.
--_Period of abbreviation_, whether always supersedes other points.

_Permanent_ propositions, to be expressed in the pres. tense.

_Permitting_, &c., verbs of, see _Commanding_.

_Personal pronoun_, defined.
--_Personal pronouns_, simple, numb, and specificat. of:
--declension of:
--often used in a reciprocal sense, ("_Wash_ YOU," &c.,).
--(See also _It_.)
--_Personal pronouns_, compound, numb. and specificat. of. 298:
--explanat. and declension of:
--CHURCH. account of:
--of the first and second persons, placed before nouns to distinguish
their persons.

_Personification_, defined,
--MURR. definition of, blamed,
--what constitutes the purest kind of,
--change of the gend. of inanimate objects by,
--whether it always changes the gender of anteced. term,
--agreem. of pronouns with their antecedents in cases of,
--Rule for capitals in do.,
--comp.,
--_Personifications_, CHURCH, on the determination of gender in,
--_Personified_ objects, names of, put in the second pers., and why,
--how pronouns agree with,

_Persons_, term defined,
--_Persons_, named and defined,
--the distinction of, on what founded,
--_Persons, numbers_, &c., character of BROWN'S definitions of,
--_Persons_, in gram., nature of; absurd teachings of some
grammar-makers concerning,
--distinctions of, in written lang.,
--_Person_ and _number_ of a verb, what,
--_Persons_, second and third, of a verb, distinctive formations of,
--do., in Lat., shown,
--_Person_, nouns of the second, in Eng., in how many ways can be
employed,
--the _third_, put with the pron. _I_, by vulgarism, ("THINKS I _to
myself_,")
--the first, place of,
--_Persons_, wheth