Pembroke College;
  penance in Uttoxeter market, iv. 373;
  penitents, a great lover of, iv. 406, n. 1;
  pension:  see PENSION;
  personal appearance,
    described by Boswell, iv. 425; v. 18;
      by Miss Burney, i. 144, n. 1; ii. 141, n. 2; v. 23, n. 4;
      by Mrs. Piozzi and Reynolds, i. 94, n. 4;
      in The Race ii. 31;
      ‘A labouring working mind, an indolent reposing body,’ iv. 444;
    fingers and nails, iv. 190;
    ‘ghastly smiles,’ ii. 69, n. 1; v. 48, n. 1;
    ‘majestic frame,’ i. 472;
    robust frame, i. 462;
    youth, in his, i. 94;
  philology, love of, iv. 34;
  philosophy, study of, i. 302;
  physicians, pleasure in the company of, iv. 293;
  physick, knowledge of, i. 159; iii. 22;
    ‘great dabbler in it,’ iii. 152;
  physics himself violently, iv. 135, n. 1; 229, n. 1;
    writes a prescription, v. 74;
  picture of himself in [Greek:  Gnothi seauton] i. 298, n. 4;
  piety, maintained the obligations of, v. 17;
  plagiarism, i. 334;
  players, prejudice against:  see PLAYERS;
  please, seeking to, iii. 54, n. 1;
  poems of his youth, i. 50;
  poetical mind, iii. 151; iv. 428; v. 17;
  poetry, pleasure in writing, iv. 219; v. 418;
  Politian, proposal to publish the poems of, i. 90;
  politeness, his, acknowledged, i. 286; ii. 36; iii. 81, 331; iv. 126;
v. 23, 82, 98-9, 363;
    thinks himself very polite, iii. 337; v. 363;
  political economy, ignorance of, ii. 430, n. 1;
  political principles, his, described by Dr. Maxwell, ii. 117-8;
  politician, intention of becoming a, i. 489; 518-520;
  ‘Pomposo,’ i. 406;
  poor, loved the, ii. 119, n. 4;
  Pope’s Messiah turned into Latin, i. 61;
  porter’s knot, advised to buy a, i. 102, n. 2;
  portraits, list of his, iv. 421, n. 2;
    Burney, Miss, finds him examining one, ii. 141, n. 2;
    Reynolds, portraits by,—­one with Beauclerk’s inscription, iv.
      180, 444;
    ‘blinking Sam,’ iii. 273, n. 1;
    Doughty’s mezzotinto, ii. 286, n. 1;
    one engraved for Boswell’s Life, presented by Reynolds to
      Boswell, i. 392; v. 385, n. 1;
    one admired at Lichfield, ii. 141;
    one at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
    other portraits, iv. 421, n. 2;
    Reynolds, Miss, by, ii. 362, n. 1; iv. 229. n. 4;
  post-chaise, delight in a:  See POST-CHAISE;
  praise and abuse, wishes he had kept a book of, v. 273;
  praise, loved, but did not seek it, iv. 427; v. 17;
    disliked extravagant praise, iii. 225; iv. 82;
  prayers:  See PRAYERS, and Prayers and Meditations;
  prefaces, skill in, i. 139;
  preference to himself, refused, iii. 54, n. 1;
  Presbyterian service, would not attend a, iii. 336; v. 121, 384;
    attends family prayer, v. 121;
  pride, described by Reynolds, iii. 345, n. 1;
    defensive, i. 265;