Panurge, his interview with Goatsnose, 84. Papists, female, slain by zealous Protestant bomb-shell, 104. Paralipomenon, a man suspected of being, 82. Paris, liberal principles safe as far away as, 66. _Parliamentum Indoctorum_ sitting in permanence, 44. Past, the, a good nurse, 55. Patience, sister, quoted, 16. Paynims, their throats propagandistically cut, 23. Penelope, her wise choice, 32. People, soft enough, 68 --want correct ideas, 97. Pepin, King, 76. Periwig, 80. Persius, a pithy saying of, 46, _note_. Pescara, Marquis, saying of, 10. Peter, Saint, a letter of (_post-mortem_), 76. Pharisees, opprobriously referred to, 66. Philippe, Louis, in pea-jacket, 71. Phlegyas quoted, 63. Phrygian language, whether Adam spoke it, 11. Pilgrims, the, 45. Pillows, constitutional, 49. Pinto, Mr., some letters of his commended, 76. Pisgah, an impromptu one, 100. Platform, party, a convenient one, 97. Plato, supped with, 75 --his man, 82. Pleiades, the, not enough esteemed, 73. Pliny, his letters not admired, 76. Plotinus, a story of, 55. Plymouth Rock, Old, a Convention wrecked on, 45. Point Tribulation, Mr. Sawin wrecked on, 100. Poles, exile, whether crop of beans depends on, 19, _note_. Polk, President, synonymous with our country, 30 --censured, 44 --in danger of being crushed, 46. Polka, Mexican, 24. Pomp, a runaway slave, his nest, 117 --hypocritically groans like white man, 118 --blind to Christian privileges, 119 --his society valued at fifty dollars, _ib._ --his treachery, 120 --takes Mr. Sawin prisoner, 121 --cruelly makes him work, _ib._ --puts himself illegally under his tuition, 122 --dismisses him with contumelious epithets, _ib._ Pontifical bull, a tamed one, 22. Pope, his verse excellent, 11. Pork, refractory in boiling, 22. Portugal, Alphonso the Sixth of, a monster, 123. Post, Boston, 33 --shaken visibly, 34 --bad guide-post, _ib._ --too swift, _ib._ --edited by a colonel, _ib._ --who is presumed officially in Mexico, _ib._ --referred to, 59. Pot-hooks, death in, 59. Preacher, an ornamental symbol, 65 --a breeder of dogmas, _ib._ --earnestness of, important, 123. Present, considered as an annalist, 65 --not long wonderful, 73. President, slaveholding natural to, 66 --must be a Southern resident, 98 --must own a nigger, _ib._ Principle, exposure spoils it, 43. Principles, bad, when less harmful, 27. Prophecy, a notable one, 51, _note_. Proviso, bitterly spoken of, 79. Prudence, sister, her idiosyncratic teapot, 92. Psammeticus, an experiment of, 11. Public opinion a blind and drunken guide, 25 --nudges Mr. Wilbur's elbow, 26 --ticklers of, 45. Pythagoras a bean-hater, why, 84. Pythagoreans, fish reverenced by, why, 54. Quixote, Don, 57. Rag, one of sacred college, 25. Rantoul, Mr., talks loudly, 16 --pious reason for not enlisting, _ib._