Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.

Chapter 51

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'It is said the only way to make a pig go forward is to pull him back by the tail,' v. 355.

PILLOW. 'That will do--all that a pillow can do,' iv. 411.

PISTOL. 'When his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it' (Colley Cibber) ii. 100.

PITY. 'We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards,' iii. 11.

PLAYER. 'A player--a showman--a fellow who exhibits himself for a shilling,' ii. 234.

PLEASANT. 'Live pleasant' (Burke), i. 344.

PLEASE. 'It is very difficult to please a man against his will,' iii. 69.

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,'