ancient philosophers disputed with good humour, iii. 100;
Edwards tries to be one, iii. 305;
also White, ib., n. 2;
French philosophers, ib.
PHILOSOPHICAL NECESSITY, iii. 291, n. 2.
PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, iv. 36, n. 4.
_Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland_, ii. 339; iv. 320, n. 4.
_Philosophical Transactions_, i. 309; ii. 40, n. 2.
PHILOSOPHICAL WISE MAN, ii. 475.
PHIPPS, Captain, v. 236, 392, n. 6.
PHOCYLIDIS, v. 445.
PHOENICIAN LANGUAGE, iv. 195.
PHYSIC,
a science and trade, iii. 22, n. 4;
irregular practisers in it, iii. 389:
See under JOHNSON, physic.
PHYSICIAN,
a foppish one, iv. 319;
history of an unfortunate one, ii. 455;
one recommended by Dr. Taylor, ii. 474;
one not sober for twenty years, iii. 389;
one who lost his practice by changing his religion, ii. 466.
PHYSICIANS,
ancients failed, moderns succeeded, iii. 22, n. 4;
bag-wigs, wore, iii. 288;
_Fortune of Physicians_, i. 242, n. 1;
Hogarth's pictures of one, iii. 288, n. 4;
intruders, do not love, ii. 331, n. 1;
Johnson celebrates their beneficence, iv. 263;
has pleasure in their company, iv. 293;
esteems them, v. 183;
his conversation compared to the practice of one, ii. 15;
title: See under DR. MEMIS.
PIAZZAS, v. 115.
PICKLES, ii. 219.
_Pickwick_, story of the man who ate crumpets, iii. 384, n. 4.
PIERESC, his death and papers, ii. 371.
PIETY,
comparative piety of women and wicked fellows, iv. 289;
crazy piety, ii. 473.
_Piety in Pattens_, ii. 48, n. 1.
PIG, a learned, iv. 373.
_Pilgrim's Progress_,
Fearing and the screen, i. 163, n. 1;
Fearing and death, iv. 417, n. 2;
Johnson praises it highly, ii. 238;
wishes it longer, i. 71, n. 1.
PILING ARMS, iii. 355.
PILKINGTON, James,
_Present State of Derbyshire_, iii. 161, n. 2.
PILLORY, how far it dishonours, iii. 315;
'a place or the pillory,' iv. 113, n. 1;
Parsons of the Cock Lane Ghost set in it, i. 406, n. 3.
_Pindar_, Johnson asks Boswell to get him a copy, ii. 202;
receives it, ii. 205;
West's translation, iv. 28.
PINK, Dr., i. 194, n. 2.
PINKERTON, John, iv. 330.
PINO, ii. 451, n. 3.
PIOZZI, Signor, account of him, iv. 339, n. 2;
attacked by Baretti, iii. 49, n. 1;
Thrale, Mrs., attached to him, iv. 158, n. 4;
marries him, ii. 328, n. 4; iv. 339.
PIOZZI, Mrs. See THRALE, Mrs.
_Piozzi Letters_.
See under MRS. THRALE, Johnson's letters to her.
_Pit_, to, iii. 185.
PITCAIRNE, Archib