He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.1

COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner, lines 612-617

Praying. Mr. Chadbands he wos a-prayin' wunst at Mr. Snagsby's and I heard him, but he sounded as if he wos a-speaking to hisself, and not to me. He prayed a lot, but I couldn't make out nothink on it. Different times, there was other gentlemen come down Tom-all-Alone's a-prayin', but they all mostly sed as the t'other wuns prayed wrong, and all mostly sounded to be a-talkin' to theirselves, or a-passin' blame on the t'others, and not a-talkin' to us. DICKENS, Bleak House, xlvii

Preached.- I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

RICHARD BAXTER, Love Breathing Thanks and Praise

Preacher. Look! you can see from this window my brazen howitzer planted

High on the roof of the church, a preacher who speaks to the purpose,

Steady, straightforward, and strong, with irresistible logic,

Orthodox, flashing conviction right into the hearts of the heathen.

Truly the only tongue that is understood by the savage
Must be the tongue of fire that speaks from the mouth of
the cannon. LONGFELLOW, Courtship of Miles
Standish, i, lines 46–49; iv, lines 126, 127

This is what makes him,' the crowd-drawing preacher,
There's a background of God to each hard-working
feature,

Every word that he speaks has been fierily furnaced
In the blast of a life that has struggled in earnest:

But his periods fall on you, stroke after stroke,
Like the blows of a lumberer felling an oak,

You forget the man wholly, you're thankful to meet

With a preacher who smacks of the field and the street.
LOWELL, Fable for Critics, lines 801-812

1 He serves thee best who loveth most

His brothers and thy own.

2 Theodore Parker.

WHITTIER, Our Master, st. 35

Preachers. When preachers tell us all they think,
And party leaders all they mean.

HOLMES, Latter-Day Warnings, st. 3

Precedent. It must not be; there is no power in Venice

Can alter a decree established:

'T will be recorded for a precedent,

And many an error by the same example

Will rush into the state: it cannot be.

Preferment.

SHAKESPEARE, Merchant of Venice, iv, 1

'Tis the curse of service,

Preferment goes by letter and affection,

And not by [the] old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first.

SHAKESPEARE, Othello, i, I

Prescient. One sails toward me o'er the bay,
And what he comes to do and say

I can foretell. A prescient lore

Springs from some life outlived of yore.

Presentiment.— A man

P. H. HAYNE, Pre-Existence

has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.

STERNE, A Sentimental Journey, The Remise, Calais President. The President of the United States is only the engine-driver of our broad-gauge mail train; and every honest, independent thinker has a seat in the first-class cars behind him.

HOLMES, Professor at the Breakfast-Table, v Press. What need of help? He knew how types were set, He had a dauntless spirit, and a press.

LOWELL, To W. L. Garrison, st. 2

Presume. Do not presume too much upon my love;
I may do that I shall be sorry for.

SHAKESPEARE, Julius Cæsar, iv, 3

Price. All those1 men have their price."

SIR ROBERT WALPOLE, cited in his Life, by Coxe

Pride. Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues faith and hope. DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby, xliii

1 Walpole here spoke specifically of certain pretended patriots, not of mankind in general.

2I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.

SHAKESPEARE, Othello, i, 1

Pride in their port,' defiance in their eye.

GOLDSMITH, The Traveller, st. 25

A pride there is of rank a pride of birth,
A pride of learning, and a príde of purse,
A London pride in short, there be on earth
A host of prides, some better and some worse;
But of all prides, since Lucifer's attaint,
The proudest swells a self-elected saint.

HOOD, Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire, st. 32

In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies.
Pride still is aiming at the blessed abodes,
Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods.

POPE, Essay on Man, Epistle i, lines 123-126
He owned with a grin

That his favorite sin

Is pride that apes humility.

SOUTHEY, The Devil's Walk, st. 8

Once, when I was up so high in pride
That I was half way down the slope to hell,
By overthrowing me you threw me higher.

TENNYSON, Geraint and Enid, lines 789-791

Pride, like an eagle, builds among the stars;
But Pleasure, lark-like, nests upon the ground.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts, V, lines 19, 20

Priest. A decent priest, where monkeys were the gods.

Primrose.

POPE, The Dunciad, III, line 208

A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more."

Primroses.

WORDSWORTH, Peter Bell, i, st. 12

Pale primroses,

That die unmarried, ere they can behold
Bright Phoebus in his strength-
Most incident to maids.

a malady

SHAKESPEARE, Winter's Tale, iv, 4 [3]

1 His was the lofty port the distant mien,
That seems to shun the sight -and awes if seen.

BYRON, The Corsair, Canto i, st. 16

There was pride in the head she carried so high,
Pride in her lip, and pride in her eye,
And a world of pride in the very sigh

That her stately bosom was fretting!

J. G. SAXE, The Proud Miss MacBride

2 Now a flower is just a flower: Man, bird, beast are but beast, bird, man. ROBERT BROWNING, Asolando, Prologue, st. 2

Prince.

When a prince to the fate of the peasant has yielded,
The tapestry waves dark round the dim-lighted hall;
With scutcheons of silver the coffin is shielded,
And pages stand mute by the canopied pall.
SCOTT, Helvellyn, st. 4

That prince, and that alone, is truly great,
Who draws the sword reluctant, gladly sheaths;
On empire builds what empire far outweighs,
And makes his throne a scaffold to the skies.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts, VI, lines 362-365

Princes. Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. BACON, Essay XIX: Of Empire

Print. Some said, "John, print it;" others said, "Not so,"
Some said, "It might do good;" others said, "No."
BUNYAN, Apology for His Book, st. 4

A chiel's amang you, taking notes,
And, faith, he 'll prent it.

BURNS, On Captain Grose's Peregrinations, st. 1

Printers. I'll wish he had to write his song beneath a midnight taper;

On pittance that would scarcely pay for goose-quill, ink, and paper;

And then, to crown his misery, and break his heart in

splinters;

I'll wish he had to see his proofs, his publishers, and printers. ELIZA COOK, Lines on a Nightingale, st. 14

Printing. Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school: and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill. It will be proved to thy face that thou hast men about thee that usually talk of a noun and a verb, and such abominable words as no Christian ear can endure to hear.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry VI, Part II, iv,

Prior. Nobles and heralds, by your leave,
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior,
The son of Adam and of Eve;

Can Bourbon or Nassau go higher?

7

MATTHEW PRIOR, Epitaph on Himself

Prison. Stone walls doe not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage.1

RICHARD LOVELACE, To Althea from Prison, st. 4

Prize. Let a man contend to the uttermost
For his life's set prize, be it what it will!

ROBERT BROWNING, The Statue and the Bust, st. 81

Men prize the thing ungained more than it is.

SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida, i, 2

The prize be sometimes with the fool,
The race not always to the swift.

THACKERAY, The End of the Play, st. 5

Procrastination.- Procrastination is the thief of time.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts, I, line 393

Profession. I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavour themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. BACON, Law Tracts: Preface

Promise.

ROBERT BROWNING, Paracelsus, v

Bate me some and I will pay you some, and, as most debtors do, promise you infinitely.

SHAKESPEARE, King Henry IV, Part II, v, Epilogue

Be these juggling fiends no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.

SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, v, 8 [7]

All promise is poor dilatory man.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts, I, line 412

1That which the world miscalls a jail
A private closet is to me;
Whilst a good conscience is my bail,
And innocence my liberty:
Locks, bars, and solitude together met,
Make me no prisoner, but an anchoret.

SIR ROGER L'ESTRANGE, In Prison, st. a