Chapter 50

'There is no end of objections,' iii. 26.

OBLIVION. 'That was a morbid oblivion,' v. 68.

ODD. 'Nothing odd will do long,' ii. 449.

ON'T. 'I'll have no more on't,' iv. 300.

OPPRESSION. 'Unnecessarily to obtrude unpleasing ideas is a species of oppression,' v. 82, n. 2.

ORCHARD. 'If I come to an orchard,' &c., ii. 96.

OUT. 'A man does not love to go to a place from whence he comes out exactly as he went in,' iv. 90.

OUTLAW. 'Sir, he leads the life of an outlaw,' ii. 375.

OUT-VOTE. 'Though we cannot out-vote them we will out-argue them,' iii. 234.

OVERFLOWED. 'The conversation overflowed and drowned him,' ii. 122.

OWL. 'Placing a timid boy at a public school is forcing an owl upon day,' iv. 312.

P.

PACKHORSE. 'A carrier who has driven a packhorse,' &c., v. 395.

PACKTHREAD. 'When I take up the end of a web, and find it packthread, I do not expect, by looking further, to find embroidery,' ii. 88.

PACTOLUS. 'Sir, had you been dipt in Pactolus, I should not have noticed you,' iv. 320.

PAIN. 'He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man,' ii. 435, n. 7.

PAINTED. 'Hailes's _Annals of Scotland_ have not that painted form which is the taste of this age,' iii. 58.

PAINTING. 'Painting, Sir, can illustrate, but cannot inform,' iv. 321.

PALACES. 'We are not to blow up half a dozen palaces because one cottage is burning,' ii. 90.

PAMPER. 'No, no, Sir; we must not _pamper_ them,' iv. 133.

PANT. 'Prosaical rogues! next time I write, I'll make both time and space pant,' iv. 25.

PARADOX. 'No, Sir, you are not to talk such paradox,' ii. 73.

PARCEL. 'We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice' (Lord Lucan's anecdote of Johnson), iv. 87.

PARENTS. 'Parents not in any other respect to be numbered with robbers and assassins,' &c., iii. 377, n. 3.

PARNASSUS. See CRITICISM.

PARSIMONY. 'He has the crime of prodigality and the wretchedness of parsimony,' iii. 317.

PARSONS. 'This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive,' iv. 76.

PATRIOTISM. 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel,' ii. 348.

PATRIOTS. 'Patriots spring up like mushrooms' (Sir R. Walpole), iv. 87, n. 2; 'Don't let them be patriots,' iv. 87.

PATRON. 'The Patron and the jail,' i. 264.

PECCANT. 'Be sure that the steam be directed to thy _head,_ for _that_ is the _peccant_ part,' ii. 100.

PEGGY. 'I cannot be worse, and so I'll e'en take Peggy,' ii. 101.

PELTING. 'No, Sir, if they had wit they should have kept pelting me with pamphlets,' ii. 308.

PEN. 'No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had,' iv. 29.

PEOPLE. 'The lairds, instead of improving their country, diminished their people,' v. 300.

Per. _'Per mantes notos et flumina nota,'_ i. 49, n. 4; v. 456, n. 1.

PERFECT. 'Endeavour to be as perfect as you can in every respect,' iv. 338.

PERISH. 'Let the authority of the English government perish rather than be maintained by iniquity,' ii. 121.

PETTY. 'These are the petty criticisms of petty wits,' i. 498.

PHILOSOPHER. 'I have tried in my time to be a philosopher; but I don't know how, cheerfulness was always breaking in' (O. Edwards), iii. 305.

PHILOSOPHICAL. 'We may suppose a philosophical day-labourer,.... but we find no such philosophical day-labourer,' v. 328.

_Philosophus. 'Magis philosophus quam Christianus,'_ ii. 127.

PHILOSOPHY. 'It seems to be part of the despicable philosophy of the time to despise monuments of sacred magnificence,' v. 114, n. 1.

PICTURE. 'Sir, among the anfractuosities of the human mind I know not if it may not be one, that there is a superstitious reluctance to sit for a picture,' iv. 4.

PIETY. 'A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He'll beat you all at piety,' iv. 289.

PIG. 'Pig has, it seems, not been wanting to man, but man to pig,'