. 45, n. 4.
PARKER, John, of Browsholme, v. 431.
PARKER, Sackville, the Oxford book-seller, iv. 308.
PARLIAMENT, awed the press, i. 115;
corruption alleged, iii. 206;
crown influence, ii. 118;
debates: See DEBATES;
disadvantages of a seat, iv. 220;
dissolution: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS;
duration immaterial, ii. 73;
bill for shortening it,_ ib., n_. 2; iii. 460;
duration of parliaments from 1714 to 1773, v. 102, n. 2;
governing by parliamentary corruption, ii. 117;
Highlander's notion of one, v. 193;
Houses of Commons and of Lords: See under HOUSE OF COMMONS
and HOUSE OF LORDS;
Johnson projects an historical account, i. 155;
suggested as a member, ii. 136-9;
larger council, a, ii. 355;
Long Parliament, ii. 118;
members free from arrest by a bailiff, iv. 391, n. 2;
Pitt's motion for reform, iv. 165, n. 1;
speakers and places, iv. 223;
speeches, effect produced by, iii. 233-5;
upstarts getting into it, ii. 339;
use of it, ii. 355.
_Parliamentary History_, Johnson's _Debates_, i. 503, 508;
prosecution of Whitehead and Dodsley, i. 125, n. 3.
_Parliamentary Journals_, i. 117.
PARLOUR, company for the, ii. 120, n. 1.
PARNELL, Rev. Dr. Thomas, Contentment, iii. 122, n. 2;
drank too freely, iii. 155; iv. 54, n. 1, 398;
Goldsmith writes his _Life_, ii. 166;
_Hermit_, a disputed passage in his, iii. 220, 392-3;
Johnson writes his epitaph, iv. 54; v. 404;
and his _Life_, iv. 54;
Milton, compared with, v. 434;
_Night Piece_, ii. 328, n. 2.
PARODIES, Johnson's parodies of ballads, ii. 136, n. 4, 212, n. 4;
parodies of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, style.
PARR, Rev. Dr. Samuel,
describes himself as the second Grecian in England, iv. 385, n. 2;
Johnson, argues with, iv. 15;
character, describes, iv. 47, n. 2;
epitaph, writes, iv. 423-4,444-6;
_Life_, thinks of writing, iv. 443;
Latin scholarship, praises, iv. 385, n. 3;
reputation, defends, iv. 423;
writes him a letter of recommendation, iv. 15, n. 5;
neglected at Cambridge, i. 77, n. 4;
Priestley, defends, iv. 238, n. 1, 434;
Romilly, letter to, iv. 15, n. 5;
Sheridan's system of oratory, i. 394, n. 2;
Steevens, character of, iii. 281, n. 3;
_Tracts by Warburton_, &c., iv. 47, n. 2;
White's _Bampton Lectures_, iv. 443.
PARRHASIUS, iv. 104, n. 2.
PARSIMONY, quagmire of it, iii. 348;
timorous, iv. 154;
wretchedness, iii. 317.
PARSON, the life of a. S