347, 515;
verses said to be addressed to her, i. 92, n. 2;
mentioned, i. 103, 340, n. 1, 512; ii. 468; iii. 132, 417; iv. 374, 394.
PORTER, A STREET-, Johnson drives a load off his back, iv. 71.
PORTER, Johnson sends a present of, ii. 272, 275.
PORTEUS, Beilby, Bishop of Chester (afterwards of London),
Boswell, attentive to, iii. 413, 415;
Jenyns's, Soame, conversion, i. 316, n. 2;
_Life of Secker_, iv. 29;
reverend fops, iv. 76;
Sunday knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
mentioned, iii. 124, 279, 280.
PORTLAND, third Duke of, iii. 224, n. 1; iv. 174, n. 3.
See COALITION MINISTRY.
PORTLAND, Dowager Duchess of, iii. 425.
PORTMORE, Lord, Johnson's letter to him, iv. 268, n. 1.
PORTRAITS,
their chief excellence, v. 219;
portrait-painting, improper for women, ii. 362;
of Johnson: See under JOHNSON, portraits.
PORTUGAL, iii. 23, 445.
PORTUGAL PIECES, iv. 104.
PORTUGUESE, discovery of the Indies, i. 455; n. 3; ii. 479;
iii. 204, n. 1; iv. 12, n. 2.
POSSIBILITIES, v. 46.
POST,
Brighton, to, iii. 92, n. 3;
double letters, i. 283, n. 1;
franking letters, iii. 364; iv. 361, n. 3;
penny-post, i. 121, 151;
postage from Lisbon, iii. 23;
to Oxford, i. 283, n. 1.
POST-CHAISE,
driving from, or to something, iii. 5, 457;
Gibbon delights in them, ii. 453, n. 1;
also Johnson, ii. 453;
if accompanied by a pretty woman, iii. 162;
in 1758, v. 56, n. 2.
POST-HORSES, charge per mile, v. 427.
POSTERITY, prescribing rules to, ii. 417.
POT, Mr., iv. 5, n. 1.
POTT, Rev. Archdeacon, ii. 459.
POTT, Mr., a surgeon, iv. 239.
POTTER, Robert, translation of Aeschylus, iii. 256.
POVERTY,
'All this excludes but one evil--poverty,' iii. 160;
arguments for it, i. 441;
a great evil, iv. 149, 152, 155, 157, 163, 351.
POWELL, a clerk, iv. 223, n. 3.
POWER,
all power desirable, ii. 357;
despotic, iii. 283;
of the Crown, ii. 170.
POWERSCOURT, Lord, v. 253.
PRACTICE. See PRINCIPLES.
PRAGUE, iii. 458.
PRAISE,
on compulsion, ii. 51;
extravagant, iii. 225; iv. 82;
value of it, iv. 32, 255, n. 2.
PRATT, Chief Justice. See CAMDEN, Lord.
PRAYER,
arguments against it, v. 38;
dead, for the, ii. 163;
efficacy, its, v. 68;
family prayer, v. 121;
form of prayer, v. 365;
Hume on Leechman's doctrine, v. 68, n. 4;
Johnson designs a _Book of Prayers_, iv. 293, 376;
offered a large sum for one, iv. 410;
lies in prayers, iv. 295;
reasoning on its nature unprofitable,