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GENERAL INDEX.
Proverbs and Phrases:
There are more acres in Yorkshire than letters
in the Bible, i. 52 The weakest goes to the wall, x. 27, 78 Think it possible that you may be wrong, iv.
68, 117
Thou playest Scogan with mee, xii. 482 Tom, Dick, and Harry, vi. 268 Tool the reins, vi. 487 Too many turnpikes to pay, iii. 126 Topping of the land, vii. 68, 138 Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner, iv.
86, 136, 154, 236 Traverse the cart, ix. 7 Tune the old cow died of, xi. 248, 309, 443,
501
Unconscious humour, viii. 86 " Up to " one to do a thing, vii. 35 Wait and see, iii. 366, 434 ; iv. 74, 157 ; v.
414 ; x. 158
Wait till the tail breaks, xi. 207 Ware and Wadesmill worth half London, iv.
167
Watching how the cat jumps, iv. 106 Welcome as flowers in May, iii. 367, 414, 478 Well ! Of all and of all ! xi. 299, 370 What comes over the devil's back goes under
his belly, ix. 427, 493 What the 'devil , xii. 10 What you but see when you haven't a gun !
v. 378
What you don't know won't hurt you, x. 171 When the devil goes a-nutting, i. 33 Who was your nigger last year ? ii. 286 Wiltshire phrases, v. 326, 434, 496 ; vi. 36 Within sound of Bow bells, ix. 167, 237 Worth a Jew's eye, ii. 208 Year of our Lord God, ix. 269 You have forced me to do this willingly, ii.
289, 493 ; v. 377 You may fool some of the people all the time,
xii. 159
You may go look, 1634, v. 226 Providence, the voyage of, under Capt. Bligh, ix.
489 ; x. 17, 116, 153, 277 Provincial towns, their old newspapers, ii. 481 Provins, Huguenot church at, article on, ii. 8 Prow of gondolas of Venice, iii. 187 Prowse (Major C. B.) on touch wood, ix. 418 " Prsvry," <Vc., exercise on the letter E, xi. 318,
435, 477
Prussian blue, a kind of edible pea, xii. 320, 370 Prussian eagles in Piccadilly, x. 506 Pryce (A. Reginald) on authors wanted, ii. 229
Statues in the British Isles, ii. 383 Przemysl, place-name, its pronunciation, x. 410,
456, 497
Psalmanazar (George), his biography, i. 349 Psalms in metre, their use, vi. 229 ; metrical ver- sions of, 1(513, xi. 414 Psalter of St. Columba, Irish MS., xi. 466 ; xii.
" Psychological," earliest use of the word, v. 246 Psychological moment, origin of the phrase, i. 416 Ptolemy (Claudius), quoted by Sir T. Browne, vi.
30, 97 ' Public Advertiser,' 1766-72, Letters of Junius in,
in. 305 Public-houses, smoking in, in seventeenth century
v. 188 ; " tied house " system for, 1726, vii. 7
Public School Registers, i. 203, 269, 294, 431 ;.
printed, ii. 52 Publishing and bookselling, bibliography of, i. 5,.
44 ; x. 225 ; privilege and licence, 1534, v. 324 Puca, used in place-names, viii. 15 Puckled, meaning of the word, c. 1620, ii. 526 ;
iii. 78, 111 Pudding Lane, old London street, v. 247; viii..
469, 516
" Pudding-time " in ' Vicar of Bray,* vii. 149, 215 Puddyng Lane. See Pudding Lane. Puddynglane, London, note on, 1297, vi. 6 Pugh (David), his pseudonym, David Hughson,.
iv. 70, 116, 198 Pugh (Edward), his pseudonym, David Hugbson,.
ii. 89
Pugh (Edward), artist, c. 1793, iv. 71, 116, 198' Pugilism, Thackeray on, iii. 28, 111 Puizar (Marquis of), Colonel 24th Regiment, 1696,,
ix. 87
Pulci, Italian poet, and Ulysses, ii. 407 Puleston (Allen), Westminster scholar, xi. 400, 437 Pull^a seizure, in Devon inquest, 1651, i. 407,.
457 ; ii. 18 " Pull one's leg," origin of the slang phrase, vii.
508 ; viii. 58, 158, 213
Pullein (Rev. S.) translator of Vida, 1750, xi. 338 Pullen (Rev. H. W.), his ' Fight at Dame Europa's
School,' 1871, x. 268, 314, 356 ; xi. 93 Pullen (Joe), made famous by his tree, xi. 414 Fulling (Edith L.) on ' Shotover Papers ; or,.
Echoes from Oxford,' v. 512 Pulpit, nosegay in the, c. 1760, i. 88 ; Ulster,.
built on a rock, vi. 266 ; Cromwellian, iii. 407 Pulteney : Poultney : Pountney, change of name,
ii. 329
Fumbersfelten, place-name, its locality, ix. 291 Pun, history of the " Peccavi " pun, vii. 226, 290 Pun, used in 1643, i. 425 'Punch,' 'Drawing-Room Ditties,' m, ii. 48, 94,
154, 399. 234: Roman Catholics on its staff,,
ii. 402 ; Edward VII. in, as baby and boy, Iv..
64 ; seventieth birthday commemoration, iv.
81 ; alterations in its wrapper, ix. 167 ; faulty
pagination of, xii. 257 Punch, his " whole play of the Gunpowder Plot,"*
xii. 139, 209 Punch and Judy, history of the play, v. 289, 376,..
477 Punctuation its importance, xi. 49, 131, 177, 217 ;
xii. 28cS, 330
Punctuation signs, origin of, vii. 409 j fx. 16 Punishment, corporal, books on, vi. 70 Punjaub or Burmah head, Anglo-Indian term for
amnesia, i. 206
Puns on Payne surname, ii. 409, 453 ; iii. 38 Purcell (Daniel), organist, his biography, iv. 368,.
538
Purcell (Edward), organist, iv. 368, 470, 514 Purchas (J. R. P.) on bust of Shakespeare, vii.,
166
Purchass ( ), c. 1750, his identity, ix. 170
Purdue family, vi. 249
Purdue or Purdy (W.), bell-founder, c. 1567, vu.
249 Puritan names in New England, 1794, xii. 399,.
419, 439, 459, 479, 500 Puritan ordeal in the nineteenth century, x. 467 ;
xi. 37 Puritans, number of pictures destroyed by, xi-
151, 195, 217, 327
