St. Paul's Church,' i. 440.

POVERTY. 'When I was running about this town a very poor fellow,
I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty,' i. 441.

POWER. 'I sell here, Sir, what all the world desires to have--Power'
(Boulton), ii. 459.

PRACTICE. 'He does not wear out his principles in practice'
(Beauclerk), iii. 282.

PRAISE. 'All censure of a man's self is oblique praise,' iii. 323;
'I know nobody who blasts by praise as you do,' iv. 8l;
'Praise and money, the two powerful corrupters of mankind,' iv. 242;
'There is no sport in mere praise, when people are all of a mind,'
v. 273.

PRAISES. 'He who praises everybody praises nobody,' iii. 225, n. 3.

PRANCE. 'Sir, if a man has a mind to _prance_ he must study at
Christ Church and All Souls,' ii. 67, n. 2.

PRECEDENCY. See above, FLEA.

PRE-EMINENCE. 'Painful pre-eminence' (Addison), iii. 82, n. 2.

PREJUDICE. 'He set out with a prejudice against prejudices,' ii. 51.

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 e