PARNELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Contentment, iii. 122, n. 2;
  drank too freely, iii. 155; iv. 54, n. 1, 398;
  Goldsmith writes his Life, ii. 166;
  Hermit, a disputed passage in his, iii. 220, 392-3;
  Johnson writes his epitaph, iv. 54; v. 404;
    and his Life, iv. 54;
  Milton, compared with, v. 434;
  Night Piece, ii. 328, n. 2. 
PARODIES, Johnson’s parodies of ballads, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4;
  parodies of Johnson:  See under JOHNSON, style. 
PARR, Rev. Dr. Samuel,
  describes himself as the second Grecian in England, iv. 385, n. 2;
  Johnson, argues with, iv. 15;
    character, describes, iv. 47, n. 2;
    epitaph, writes, iv. 423-4,444-6;
    Life, thinks of writing, iv. 443;
    Latin scholarship, praises, iv. 385, n. 3;
    reputation, defends, iv. 423;
    writes him a letter of recommendation, iv. 15, n. 5;
  neglected at Cambridge, i. 77, n. 4;
  Priestley, defends, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
  Romilly, letter to, iv. 15, n. 5;
  Sheridan’s system of oratory, i. 394, n. 2;
  Steevens, character of, iii. 281, n. 3;
  Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2;
  White’s Bampton Lectures, iv. 443. 
PARRHASIUS, iv. 104, n. 2. 
PARSIMONY, quagmire of it, iii. 348;
  timorous, iv. 154;
  wretchedness, iii. 317. 
PARSON, the life of a.  See CLERGYMEN. 
PARSONS, the impostor in the Cock Lane Ghost, i. 406, n. 3. 
PARTNEY, ii. 17. 
PARTY, Burke’s definition, ii. 223, n. 1;
  sticking to party, ii. 223; v. 36. 
PASCAL, Johnson gives Boswell Les Pensees, iii. 380;
  read by Hannah More, iv. 88, n. 1.
Passenger, iv. 85, n. 1. 
PASSION-WEEK.  See JOHNSON, Passion-week. 
PASSIONS, purged by tragedy, iii. 39.
Pastern, defined, i. 293, 378.
Pastor Fido, iii. 346. 
PATAGONIA, v. 387.
Pater Noster, the, v. 121. 
PATERNITY, its rights lessened, iii. 262. 
PATERSON, Samuel, ii. 175; iii. 90; iv. 269, n. 1. 
PATERSON, a student of painting, iii. 90; iv. 227, n. 3, 269.
Paterson against Alexander, ii. 373. 
PATRICK, Bishop, iii. 58.
Patriot, The, by Johnson, account of it, ii. 286, 288;
  written on a Saturday, i. 373, n. 2;
  election-committees described, iv. 74, n. 3.
Patriot, The, a tragedy by J. Simpson, iii. 28.
Patriot King, i. 329, n. 3. 
PATRIOTISM, last refuge of a scoundrel, ii. 348. 
PATRIOTS, defined, iv. 87, n, 2;
  Dilly’s ‘patriotic friends,’ iii. 66, 68;
  ‘don’t let them be patriots,’ iv. 87;
  patriotic groans, iii. 78. 
PATRONAGE, Church, ii. 242-6;
  rights of patrons, ii. 149. 
PATRONS, of authors, iv. 172;
  defined, i. 264, n. 4;
  harmful to learning, v. 59;
  mentioned in
    the Rambler, i. 259, n. 4;
    Letter to Chesterfield, i. 262;
    Vanity of Human Wishes,