PARENTS.  ’Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbers and assassins,’ &c., iii. 377, n. 3.

PARNASSUS.  See CRITICISM.

PARSIMONY.  ’He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchedness of parsimony,’ iii. 317.

PARSONS.  ‘This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive,’ iv. 76.

PATRIOTISM.  ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,’ ii. 348.

PATRIOTS.  ‘Patriots spring up like mushrooms’ (Sir R. Walpole), iv. 87, n. 2;
  ‘Don’t let them be patriots,’ iv. 87.

PATRON.  ‘The Patron and the jail,’ i. 264.

PECCANT.  ’Be sure that the steam be directed to thy head, for that is the peccant part,’ ii. 100.

PEGGY.  ‘I cannot be worse, and so I’ll e’en take Peggy,’ ii. 101.

PELTING.  ’No, Sir, if they had wit they should have kept pelting me with pamphlets,’ ii. 308.

PEN.  ’No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had,’ iv. 29.

PEOPLE.  ’The lairds, instead of improving their country, diminished their people,’ v. 300.

Per. ’Per mantes notos et flumina nota,’ i. 49, n. 4; v. 456, n. 1.

PERFECT.  ‘Endeavour to be as perfect as you can in every respect,’ iv. 338.

PERISH.  ’Let the authority of the English government perish rather than be maintained by iniquity,’ ii. 121.

PETTY.  ‘These are the petty criticisms of petty wits,’ i. 498.

PHILOSOPHER.  ’I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but I don’t know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in’ (O.  Edwards), iii. 305.

PHILOSOPHICAL.  ’We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer,.... but we find no such philosophical day-labourer,’ v. 328.

Philosophus.  ’Magis philosophus quam Christianus,’ ii. 127.

PHILOSOPHY.  ’It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence,’ v. 114, n. 1.

PICTURE.  ’Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind I know not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture,’ iv. 4.

PIETY.  ’A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it.  He’ll beat you all at piety,’ iv. 289.

PIG.  ‘Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig,’ iv. 373;
  ’It is said the only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him
back by the tail,’ v. 355.

PILLOW.  ‘That will do—­all that a pillow can do,’ iv. 411.

PISTOL.  ’When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it’ (Colley Cibber) ii. 100.

PITY.  ‘We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards,’ iii. 11.

PLAYER.  ’A player—­a showman—­a fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,’ ii. 234.

PLEASANT.  ‘Live pleasant’ (Burke), i. 344.

PLEASE.  ‘It is very difficult to please a man against his will,’ iii. 69.