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, whether the imperat. mood may have three,
    —­connected antecedents of different, agreem. of pron. with,
    —­connected nominatives of different, agreem. of verb with,

Perspicuity, as a quality of style, in what consists,
    —­is essential in composition; BLAIR quoted,
    —­the excellence of,
    —­Precepts aiming at offences against,