ald, v. 58.
PITT, William. See Chatham, Earl of.
PITT, William, the son,
Boswell, neglects, iii. 213, n. 1, 464; iv. 261, n. 3;
letter to him, iv. 261, n. 3;
his answer, ib.;
called to order, iv. 297, n. 2;
Fox a political apostate, calls, iv. 297, n. 2;
compared with, iv. 292;
honesty of mankind, on the, iii. 236, n. 3;
Johnson's pension, proposed addition to, iv. 350, n. 1;
Macaulay, attacked by, ib.;
ministry, his, iv. 165, n. 3, 170, n. 1, 264, n. 2;
motion for reform of parliament, iv. 165, n. 1;
tax on horses, v. 51.
PITTS, Rev. John, iv. 181, n. 3.
PITY, not natural to man, i. 437.
PLACE-HUNTERS, iii. 234.
PLACES OF PUBLIC ENTERTAINMENT, v. 295, n. 2.
PLAGUE OF LONDON, Dr. Hodges, ii. 341, n. 3.
PLAIDS, v. 85.
_Plain Dealer_, i. 156, 173, n. 3, 174.
_Plan of the Dictionary_. See _Dictionary_.
PLANTA, Joseph, ii. 399, n. 2.
PLANTATIONS (settlements), ii. 12.
PLANTERS. See AMERICA, planters.
PLANTING TREES, Johnson recommends, iii. 207.
See SCOTLAND, trees.
PLASSEY, Battle of, v. 124, n. 2.
PLAUTUS, quoted, i. 467, n. 2.
PLAXTON, Rev. G., i. 36, n. 2.
PLAYERS, action of all tragic players is bad, v. 38;
below ballad-singers, iii. 184;
Camden's, Lord, familiarity with Garrick, iii. 311;
change in their manners, i. 168;
Churchill's lines on them, i. 168, n. 1;
Collier's censure, i. 167, n. 2;
dancing-dogs, like, ii. 404;
declamation too measured, ii. 92, n. 4;
drinking tea with a player, v. 46;
emphasis wrong, i. 168;
'fellow who claps a hump on his back,' iii. 184;
'fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,' ii. 234;
Johnson's prejudice against them shown in the _Life of Savage_, i. 167;
_Life of Dryden_, ib., n. 2;
more favourable judgment, i. 201; iv. 244, n. 2;
lawyers, compared with, ii. 235;
past compared with present, v. 126;
Puritans, abhorred by, i. 168, n. 1;
Reynolds defends them, ii. 234;
transformation into characters, iv. 243-4;
Whitehead's compliment to Garrick, i. 402.
See GARRICK, profession.
PLEASED WITH ONESELF, iii. 328.
PLEASING, negative qualities please more than positive, iii. 149.
PLEASURE, aim of all our ingenuity, iii. 282;
happiness, compared with, iii. 246;
harmless pleasure, iii. 388;
monastic theory of it, iii. 292;
in itself a good, iii. 327;
no man a hypocrite in it, iv. 316;
partakers in it, iii. 328;
'public pleasures counterfeit,' iv. 316, n. 2.
_Pleasures of th