ACES. '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 w