PRESENCE.  ’Never speak of a man in his own presence.  It is always
indelicate, and may be offensive,’ ii. 472;
  ‘Sir, I honour Derrick for his presence of mind,’ i. 457.

PRIG.  ‘Harris is a prig, and a bad prig,’ iii. 245;
  ‘What! a prig, Sir?’ ‘Worse, Madam, a Whig.  But he is both,’ iii. 294.

PRINCIPLES.  ’Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature as not to know, that a man may be very sincere in good principles without having good practice,’ v. 359.

PROBABILITIES.  ‘Balancing probabilities,’ iv. 12.

PRODIGALITY.  See above, PARSIMONY.

PROFESSION.  ’No man would be of any profession as simply opposed to not being of it,’ ii. 128.

PROPAGATE.  ’I would advise no man to marry, Sir, who is not likely to propagate understanding,’ ii. 109, n. 2.

PROPORTION.  ’It is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity between them,’ ii. 12.

PROSPECTS.  ‘Norway, too, has noble wild prospects,’ i. 425.

PROSPERITY.  ‘Sir, you see in him vulgar prosperity,’ iii. 410.

PROVE.  ‘How will you prove that, Sir?’ i. 410, n. 2.

PROVERB.  ‘A man should take care not to be made a proverb,’ iii. 57.

PRY.  ‘He may still see, though he may not pry,’ iii. 61.

PUBLIC.  ’Sir, he is one of the many who have made themselves public without making themselves known,’ i. 498.

PUDDING.  ’Yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice of plum-pudding the less,’ ii. 94.

Puerilites.  ‘Il y a beaucoup de puerilites dans la guerre,’ iii. 355.

PURPOSES.  ‘The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes,’ iv. 396, n. 4.

PUTRESCENCE.  ’You would not have me for fear of pain perish in putrescence,’ iv. 240, n. 1.

Q.

Quare.  ‘A writ of quare adhaesit pavimento’ (wags of the Northern Circuit), iii. 261, n. 2.

QUARREL.  ‘Perhaps the less we quarrel, the more we hate,’ iii. 417, n. 5.

QUARRELS.  ‘Men will be sometimes surprised into quarrels,’ iii. 277, n. 2.

QUESTIONING.  ’Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen,’ ii. 472.

QUIET.  ‘Your primary consideration is your own quiet,’ iii. 11.

QUIVER.  ‘The limbs will quiver and move when the soul is gone,’ iii. 38, n. 6.

R.

RAGE.  ’He has a rage for saying something where there is nothing to be said,’ i. 329.

RAGS.  ’Rags, Sir, will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it,’ iv. 312.

RAINED.  ‘If it rained knowledge I’d hold out my hand,’ iii. 344.

RASCAL.  ‘I’d throw such a rascal into the river,’ i. 469;
  ’With a little more spoiling you will, I think, make me a complete
rascal,’ iii. 1;
  ‘Don’t be afraid, Sir, you will soon make a very pretty rascal,’
iv. 200;
  ’Every man of any education would rather be called a rascal than
accused of deficiency in the graces,’ iii. 54.