Pantisocracy, Coleridge's Utopia, 102. Paracelsus, persecution of, 201. Paradise and Paris, 308. Paradise Lost, slow sale of, 133. Park, Mungo, and the sable chief, 27. Pascal, of vanity, 13; on our love of wearing disguises, 66; maxims of conduct, 159; twenty days perfecting one letter, 126; vanity of the world, 240; Solomon and Job on human misery, 337; the present never the mark of our designs, 339; a great advantage of rank, 353; remark on the ambition of Caesar, 353; the two extremities of knowledge, 354; maxims and first principles subject to revolution, 360; the choice of a profession, 377. Paul, St., effects of his preaching at Ephesus, 362. Paul, Jean, a curious fact about sheep, 296; his comic romance, Nicholas Margraf, 318. Paul and Virginia, pronounced a failure, 148; origin of an English translation of, 248. Payne, and Home, Sweet Home, 205. Peele, Greene, and Marlowe, 249. Penn, a curious statement relating to, 257. Pepys, his opinion of Hudibras, 146; the poor widow in Holland, 325. Pericles and Aspasia, 41. Persian, passage from the, 344. Persius, chastity and modesty of, 261. Peruvian bark, an invention of the devil, 201. Peterborough, of Fenelon, 373. Petrarch, his sonnets, 190; despised Dante, 199; a curious fact of, 253; an exclamation of, 355. Petrified trees in the Andes, 108. Phaedrus, apologue of the two sacks, 374. Phidias, his reported service to Pericles, 41; his sitting statue of Jupiter, 261. Philanthropic man, a, not a philanthropist, 113. Philanthropists, malicious, anecdotes of, 96, 97. Philanthropy, traders in, wrong in head or heart, 97. Philip III. and Don Quixote, 314. Phillips, Wendell, on borrowing in literature, 162; on the lost arts, 177; curious statements relating to, 237. Philosophy, molecular, 6. Pitt, authorship of a famous speech of, 248. Plague, curious superstitions as to the cause of the, 203. Plato, evidence of great care in the composition of his Republic, 125; accused of envy, lying, etc., 144; timidity of, 262. Playfair, a strange fact of, 258. Plays of the stage and of literature, 207. Pliny, opinion of the Christian religion, 266; questions nature, 337; a custom of the Thracians, 339. Plutarch, of self-love, 13; without a biography, 262; strange omission of, 265; learned Latin after he was seventy, 267; on the universality of religion, 368. Poe, of God and the soul, 32; and the Swedenborgians, 188; the grand duke of Weimar's criticism of the Raven, 317; lines by, 329; what he thought a strong argument for the religion of Christ, 359. Pompadour, Madame de, and Cardinal Bernis, 268; her life an improbable romance, 336. Pompey, career and end of, 222. Pontifical army, soldiers of the, 241.