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, ii. 178. 
PRAYERS, by Johnson,
  against inquisitive and perplexing thoughts, iv. 370, n. 3;
  before his last communion, iv. 416-7;
  before study, iii. 90;
  before the study of law, i. 489;
  Chambers, Catherine, for, ii. 43;
  death of his wife, on the, i. 235;
  Dictionary, on beginning vol. ii. of his, i. 255;
  Easter Day, 1777, iii. 99;
  engaging in Politicks with H——­, i. 489;
  forgiveness for neglect of duties in married life, i. 240;
  January 1, 1753, i. 251;
  new scheme of life, i. 350;
  ‘On my return to life,’ i. 234, n. 2;
  Rambler, before the, i. 202;
  repentance and pardon, for, iv. 397;
  resolutions, on, i. 483;
  study of philosophy, on the, i. 302;
  Trinity, the, invoked, ii. 255.
Prayers and Meditations, Johnson’s, i. 235, n. 1; ii. 476;
  publication, iv. 376, n. 4. 
PREACHERS, women, i. 463. 
PREACHING,
  above the capacity of the congregation, iv. 185;
  plain language needed, i. 459; ii. 123.
Preceptor, The, i. 192. 
PRECISENESS, iv. 89. 
PRECOCITY, ii. 408. 
PREDESTINATION, ii. 104. 
PREFACES, Johnson’s talent for, i. 292. 
PREMIER, i. 295, n. 1. 
PREMIUM-SCHEME, i. 318. 
PRENDERGAST (Prendergrass), an officer, ii. 182, 183, n. 1.
Presbyterian, in the sense of Unitarian, ii. 408, n. 1. 
PRESBYTERIANS AND PRESBYTERIANISM,
  compared with Church of Rome, ii. 103;
  differ from it chiefly in forms, ii. 150;
  doctrine, ii. 104;
  form of prayer, no, ii. 104;