Parasitism, ix, 88. Parents, children and, xii, 56; the woes of, vi, 197. Paris, ii, 56; society in, during Revolution, ii, 177; prisons of, Elizabeth Fry on, ii, 188. Parker, Dr. Joseph, ii, 194, 237; ix, 281; Dore and, iv, 344; Huxley and, xii, 322; as an orator, vii, 22. Parker, Theodore, vii, 251; and the Brook Farm Community, ix, 293; John Brown and, ix, 300; Emerson compared with, ix, 279, 292; William Lloyd Garrison and, ix, 299; Colonel Higginson and, ix, 299; Elbert Hubbard and, ix, 389; lecture on Emerson, ix, 274; on Thomas Paine, ix, 158; Thomas Paine compared with, ix, 184; as a preacher, ix, 281; quoted, xi, 53; on Starr King, vii, 320; wife of, ix, 290. Parkhurst, Rev. Dr., v, 281. Parma, Italy, the market at, vi, 237. Parnell, Charles Stewart, James Bryce on, xiii, 204; speech of, in Buffalo, xiii, 186; Gladstone and, xiii, 184, 198; Justin McCarthy on, xiii, 199; mother of, xiii, 179. _Parsifal_, Wagner, xiv, 19. Parsons, Alfred, vi, 314. Partridge, the almanac-maker, i, 148. Passion, ii, 170; the divine, ii, 36. Passiveness, v, 99. Pasteur, Louis, French chemist, i, 247. Paternity, Schopenhauer on, viii, 363. Pater, Walter, iv, 22; on Botticelli, vi, 65; on the _Mona Lisa_, vi, 58. Patience, v, 238. Patrick, St, ii, 95. Patriotism, ix, 313; art and, vi, 321; Samuel Johnson on, vii, 196. Patronymics, iv, 41. Patti, Adelina, quoted, iii, 197. _Pauline_, Browning, v, 50. Paul the Hermit, vii, 112. Paul III, Pope, iv, 33. Peabody, George, Joshua Bates and, xi, 328; beneficences of, xi, 326; boyhood of, xi, 308; James Buchanan and, xi, 329; in England, xi, 320; W. E. Gladstone and, xi, 331; the Maryland bond issue and, xi, 321; military experience of, xi, 316; Robert Owen and, xi, 320; the world's first philanthropist, xi, 303; Elisha Riggs and, xi, 316; Queen Victoria and, xi, 330; in Washington, xi, 312. Peary, Admiral, ii, 65. Pedagogics, science of, viii, 100. Peel, Sir Robert, ii, 83; xi, 35; on John Bright, ix, 238; Richard Cobden and, ix, 150; Elizabeth Fry and, ii, 210; Macaulay compared with, v, 197. Peg Woffington, ix, 359; friend of Reynolds, iv, 305. Pennel, Joseph, vi, 314. Penni, Gianfrancesco, pupil of Raphael, vi, 33. Penn, William, ii, 197; founder of Philadelphia, xi, 93; the Quaker colonies and, ix, 219. Pentecost, Hugh, on the power of will, xiv, 56. Pepys, Samuel, iii, 7; iv, 8; diary of, vi, 273; Sir Isaac Newton and, xii, 42; quoted, iv, 198; xiv, 260; style of, v, 150; Vasari compared with, vi, 19. Percherons, the, breed of horses, ii, 57. _Peregrine Pickle_, Smollett, iv, 302. Pericles, i, 306; age of, i, 345; vii, 13, 15; builder of Athens, i, 341; Roscoe Conkling compared with, vii, 23; contemporaries of, vii, 15, 18; letter of, to Aspasia, vii, 10; Lorenzo compared with, iv, 13; Plutarch on, vii, 16; power of, iii, 93; quoted, vii, 38.