'Balancing probabilities,' iv. 12.
PRODIGALITY. See above, PARSIMONY.
PROFESSION. 'No man would be of any profession as simply opposed to
not being of it,' ii. 128.
PROPAGATE. 'I would advise no man to marry, Sir, who is not likely
to propagate understanding,' ii. 109, n. 2.
PROPORTION. 'It is difficult to settle the proportion of iniquity
between them,' ii. 12.
PROSPECTS. 'Norway, too, has noble wild prospects,' i. 425.
PROSPERITY. 'Sir, you see in him vulgar prosperity,' iii. 410.
PROVE. 'How will you prove that, Sir?' i. 410, n. 2.
PROVERB. 'A man should take care not to be made a proverb,' iii. 57.
PRY. 'He may still see, though he may not pry,' iii. 61.
PUBLIC. 'Sir, he is one of the many who have made themselves public
without making themselves known,' i. 498.
PUDDING. 'Yet if he should be hanged, none of them will eat a slice
of plum-pudding the less,' ii. 94.
_Puerilites. 'Il y a beaucoup de puerilites dans la guerre_,' iii. 355.
PURPOSES. 'The mind is enlarged and elevated by mere purposes,'
iv. 396, n. 4.
PUTRESCENCE. 'You would not have me for fear of pain perish in
putrescence,' iv. 240, n. 1.
Q.
_Quare_. 'A writ of _quare adhaesit pavimento_' (wags of the Northern
Circuit), iii. 261, n. 2.
QUARREL. 'Perhaps the less we quarrel, the more we hate,'
iii. 417, n. 5.
QUARRELS. 'Men will be sometimes surprised into quarrels,'
iii.
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