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.
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