'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.
PRESENCE. 'Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always
indelicate, and may be offensive,' ii. 472;
'Sir, I honour Derrick for his presence of mind,' i. 457.
PRIG. 'Harris is a prig, and a bad prig,' iii. 245;
'What! a prig, Sir?' 'Worse, Madam, a Whig. But he is both,' iii. 294.
PRINCIPLES. 'Sir, you are so grossly ignorant of human nature as
not to know, that a man may be very sincere in good principles without
having good practice,' v. 359.
PROBABILITIES.
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