PLEASED.  ’To make a man pleased with himself, let me tell you, is doing a very great thing,’ iii. 328.

PLEASING.  ‘We all live upon the hope of pleasing somebody,’ ii. 22.

PLEASURE.  ‘Every pleasure is of itself a good,’ iii. 327;
  ‘Pleasure is too weak for them and they seek for pain,’ iii. 176;
  ‘When one doubts as to pleasure, we know what will be the conclusion,’
iii. 250;
  ‘When pleasure can be had it is fit to catch it,’ iii. 131.

Plenum. ’There are objections against a plenum and objections against a vacuum; yet one of them must certainly be true,’ i. 444.

PLUME.  ‘This, Sir, is a new plume to him,’ ii. 210.

POCKET.  ‘I should as soon have thought of picking a pocket,’ v. 145.

POCKETS.  See above under IMMORTALITY.

POETRY.  ‘I could as easily apply to law as to tragic poetry,’ v. 35;
  ‘There is here a great deal of what is called poetry,’ iii. 374.

POINT.  ’Whenever I write anything the public make a point to know nothing about it’ (Goldsmith), iii. 252.

POLES.  ’If all this had happened to me, I should have had a couple of fellows with long poles walking before me, to knock down everybody that stood in the way,’ iii. 264.

POLITENESS.  ‘Politeness is fictitious benevolence,’ v. 82.

POOR.  ’A decent provision for the poor is the true test of
civilization,’ ii. 130;
  ‘Resolve never to be poor,’ iv. 163.

PORT.  ‘It is rowing without a port,’ iii. 255. 
  See CLARET.

POST.  ‘Sir, I found I must have gilded a rotten post,’ i. 266, n. 1.

POSTS.  ’If you have the best posts we will have you tied to them and whipped,’ v. 292.

POUND.  ’Pound St. Paul’s Church into atoms and consider any single atom; it is to be sure good for nothing; but put all these atoms together, and you have 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.