140, n. 5. WHITEFOORD, Caleb, Cross-readings, iv. 322. WHITEHEAD, Paul, Churchill's lines on him, i. 125; Johnson undervalues him, i. 124-5; Manners, i. 125; v. 116. WHITEHEAD, William, Birth-day Odes, i. 402, n. 1; Elegy to Lord Villiers, iv. 115; Garrick's 'reader' of new plays, i. 402, n. 3; proposes him to Goldsmith as arbitrator, iii. 320, n. 2; grand nonsense, i. 402; Memoirs by Mason, i. 31; poet-laureate, i. 185, n. 1. WHITEWAY, Mrs., i. 452, n. 2. WHITING, Mrs., iv. 402, n. 2. 'WHO rules o'er freemen,' iv. 312. Whole Duty of Man, its authorship, ii. 239; Johnson made to read it, i. 67; recommends it, iv. 311. Wholesome severities, v. 423. WHOREMONGER, ii. 172. WHYTE, S., Home's gold medal, ii. 320, n. 2; Johnson's walk, i. 485, n. 1; Sheridan and the Irish Parliament, iii. 377, n. 2; Sheridan's pension, i. 386, n. 1. WICKEDNESS, no abilities required for it, v. 217. WICKHAM, iv. 192. WIDOWS, ii. 77. WIFE, 'Artemisias,' ii. 76; buying lace for one, ii. 352; choosing fools for wives, v. 226; death of one, iii. 419; disputes with them, v. 226, n. 1; learned, none the worse for being, ii. 76, 128; negligent of pleasing, ii. 56; Overbury's lines, ii. 76; praise from one, i. 210; religious, should be, ii. 76; singing publicly for hire, ii. 369; story of an unfaithful wife, v. 389; of one who made a secret purse, iv. 319; studious or argumentative, iv. 32; superiority of talents, ii. 56. WIGAN, iii. 135, n. 1. WIGHT, Mr., a Scotch advocate, iii. 212, n. 2. WIGHTMAN, General, v. 140, n. 3. WIGS, bag-wigs now worn by physicians, iii. 288; tye-wigs, ib., n. 4; flowing bob-wig, iii. 325, n. 3; powdered, iii. 254: See under JOHNSON, wigs. WILCOX, the bookseller, i. 102, n. 2. Wildair, Sir Harry, ii. 465. WILKES, Dr., i. 148. WILKES, Friar, ii. 399. WILKES, John, Alderman, elected, iii. 460; Aylesbury, member for, iii. 73; Beauclerk's library, iv. 105; Boswell apologises for his intimacy with him, iii. 64, n. 3; defends him, v. 339, n. 5; relishes his excellence, in. 64; brings Johnson and him together, iii. 64; proposes a third meeting, iv. 224, n. 2; companion in Italy, ii. 11; dines with him, ii. 378, n. 1, 436, n. 1; enlivened by his sallies, i. 395; receives a letter from 'Lord Mayor Wilkes,' ii. 381, n. 1; writes to him, iv. 224, n. 2; Burke's pun on him, iii. 322; v. 32, n. 3; want of taste, iv. 104; City and Blackfriars Bridge, i. 351, n. 1; City Chamberlain, iv. 101, n. 2; Courts of Justice afraid of him, iii. 46, n. 5; Dedication of Mortimer, i. 353, n. 1; dress, iii. 68; iv. 101, n. 2; English tenacious of forms, iv. 104; Fall of Mortimer, iii. 78, n, 4; False Alarm, answer to the, iv. 30; Garrick's want of a friend, iii. 386; wit, like Chesterfield's, iii. 69; general warrants, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3, 73; George III praises his good breeding, iii. 68, n. 4; goat, the, not the kid, iv. 107, n. 2; Gordon Riots, iii. 430; 'grave, sober, decent,' iii. 77; Heroic Epistle, attacked in the, v. 186; Hogarth, caricatured by, v. 186; Horace, a contested passage in, iii. 73; House of Commons afraid of him, iv. 140, n. 1; expunges the resolution for his expulsion, ii. 112: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION; how to speak at its bar, iii. 224; Inverary, visits, iii. 73; 'Jack Ketch,' iii. 66; Johnson's account of 'Jack's' conversation, iii. 183; 'animosity' against him, i. 349; attacks him, ii. 135, n. 1; iii. 64; v. 339; attacks, i. 429, n. 1; iii. 64, n. 2; after their reconciliation, in. 79, n. 1; calls on, iv. 107; compared with, iii. 64, 78; Dictionary, letter H, i. 300, 349, n. 1; meets, at Mr. Dilly's, iii. 64-79, 201; v. 339, n. 5; second meeting, iv. 101-7; invites, to dinner, iv. 224, n. 2; letter to him, iv. 224, n. 2; and Mrs. Macaulay's footman, iii. 78; political definitions, i. 295, n. 1; repartee about a resolution of the House, iv. 104; says that he 'should be well ducked,' i. 394; sends him the Lives, iv. 107; talking of liberty, iii. 224; tete-a-tete with, iv. 107; Junius, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4; Letter to Samuel Johnson, LL.D., iv. 30, n. 3; libel, prosecution for, iii. 78; library, sells his, iv. 105, n. 2; Lord Mayor, iii. 68, n. 4, 459-460; kept from being, v. 339; Memoirs by Almon, i. 349, n. 1; Middlesex election: See under MIDDLESEX ELECTION; Monks of Medmenham Abbey, i. 125, n. 1; North Briton, No. 45, i. 394, n. 1; ii. 72, n. 3; Earl of Bute attacked, ii. 300, n. 5; oratory, on, iv. 104; 'phoenix of convivial felicity,' iii. 183; physiognomy, ii. 154, n. 1; Pope's repartee, iv. 50; prison, in, ii. 111, n. 2; iii. 46, n. 5, 460; profanity, his, iv. 216; quotation, censures, iv. 102; riots in London in 1768, iii. 46, n. 5; Scotland, raillery at, iii.

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