the composition of, ii. 108, n. 1;
  Distressed Mother, i. 181, n. 4;
  Life by Johnson, iv. 56;
  Namby Pamby, called by Pope, i. 179, n. 4;
  ‘seems a wit,’ i. 318, n. 4;
  mentioned, iii. 427. 
PHILIPS, C. C., a musician, his epitaph, i. 148; ii. 25; v. 348. 
PHILIPS, John, Cyder, a poem, v. 78. 
PHILIPS, Miss (Mrs. Crouch), iv. 227. 
PHILIPS, Mr., one of Johnson’s old friends, iv. 227. 
PHILOSOPHERS,
  ancient philosophers disputed with good humour, iii. 100;
  Edwards tries to be one, iii. 305;
    also White, ib., n. 2;
  French philosophers, ib. 
PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY, iii. 291, n. 2. 
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, iv. 36, n. 4.
Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, ii. 339; iv. 320, n. 4.
Philosophical Transactions, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2. 
PHILOSOPHICAL WISE MAN, ii. 475. 
PHIPPS, Captain, v. 236, 392, n. 6. 
PHOCYLIDIS, v. 445. 
PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 195. 
PHYSIC,
  a science and trade, iii. 22, n. 4;
  irregular practisers in it, iii. 389: 
  See under JOHNSON, physic. 
PHYSICIAN,
  a foppish one, iv. 319;
  history of an unfortunate one, ii. 455;
  one recommended by Dr. Taylor, ii. 474;
  one not sober for twenty years, iii. 389;
  one who lost his practice by changing his religion, ii. 466. 
PHYSICIANS,
  ancients failed, moderns succeeded, iii. 22, n. 4;
  bag-wigs, wore, iii. 288;
  Fortune of Physicians, i. 242, n. 1;
  Hogarth’s pictures of one, iii. 288, n. 4;
  intruders, do not love, ii. 331, n. 1;
  Johnson celebrates their beneficence, iv. 263;
    has pleasure in their company, iv. 293;
    esteems them, v. 183;
    his conversation compared to the practice of one, ii. 15;
  title:  See under DR. MEMIS. 
PIAZZAS, v. 115. 
PICKLES, ii. 219.
Pickwick, story of the man who ate crumpets, iii. 384, n. 4. 
PIERESC, his death and papers, ii. 371. 
PIETY,
  comparative piety of women and wicked fellows, iv. 289;
  crazy piety, ii. 473.
Piety in Pattens, ii. 48, n. 1. 
PIG, a learned, iv. 373.
Pilgrim’s Progress,
  Fearing and the screen, i. 163, n. 1;
  Fearing and death, iv. 417, n. 2;
  Johnson praises it highly, ii. 238;
    wishes it longer, i. 71, n. 1. 
PILING ARMS, iii. 355. 
PILKINGTON, James,
  Present State of Derbyshire, iii. 161, n. 2. 
PILLORY, how far it dishonours, iii. 315;
  ‘a place or the pillory,’ iv. 113, n. 1;
  Parsons of the Cock Lane Ghost set in it, i. 406, n. 3.
Pindar, Johnson asks Boswell to get him a copy, ii. 202;
  receives it, ii. 205;
  West’s translation, iv. 28. 
PINK, Dr., i. 194, n. 2. 
PINKERTON, John, iv. 330. 
PINO, ii. 451, n. 3. 
PIOZZI, Signor, account of him, iv. 339, n. 2;
  attacked by Baretti, iii. 49, n. 1;
  Thrale, Mrs., attached to him, iv. 158,