icked 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.

PLEASED. 'To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is
doing a very great thing,' iii. 328.

PLEASING. 'We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody,' ii. 22.

PLEASURE. 'Every pleasure is of itself a good,' iii. 327;
'Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,' iii. 176;
'When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be the conclusion,'
iii. 250;
'When pleasure can be had it is fit to catch it,' iii. 131.

_Plenum._ 'There are objections against a _plenum_ and objections
against a _vacuum_; yet one of them must certainly be true,' i. 444.

PLUME. 'This, Sir, is a new plume to him,' ii. 210.

POCKET. 'I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket,' v. 145.

POCKETS. See above under IMMORTALITY.

POETRY. 'I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry,' v. 35;
'There is here a great deal of what is called poetry,' iii. 374.

POINT. 'Whenever I write anything the public _make a point_ to know
nothing about it' (Goldsmith), iii. 252.

POLES. 'If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of
fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody
that stood in the way,' iii. 264.

POLITENESS. 'Politeness is fictitious benevolence,' v. 82.

POOR. 'A decent provision for the poor is the true test of
civilization,' ii. 130;
'Resolve never to be poor,' iv. 163.

PORT. 'It is rowing without a port,' iii. 255.
See CLARET.

POST. 'Sir, I found I must have gilded a rotten post,' i. 266, n. 1.

POSTS. 'If you have the best posts we will have you tied to them and
whipped,' v. 292.

POUND. 'Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms and consider any single
atom; it is to be sure good for nothing; but put all these atoms
together, and you have