70, 72, n. 3; pension, proposed increase of, iv. 338, n. 2; recommends Frank to him, iv. 401, n. 4; Literary Club, member of the, i. 479; opposition to good measures, iv. 200, n. 4; portrait, ii. 25, n. 2; rascal, will make a very pretty, iv. 200; Secretary for Ireland, iv. 200, 227, n. 2; wants and acquisitions, iii. 354; Wapping, explores, iv. 201, n. 1; Warton's, Dr., amazement, ii. 41, n. 1; mentioned, ii. 306; iv. 344. WINDOW-TAX, v. 301, n. 1. WINDSOR, Beauclerk's house, i. 250; Johnson and the Mayor, iv. 312, n. 4; mentioned, iii. 400, n. 2. WINDUS, John, Journey to Mequinez, v. 445. Windward, defined, i. 293. WINE, abstinence a great deduction from life, iii. 169, 245, 327; not a diminution of happiness, iii. 245; does not admit of doubting, iii. 250; reasons for it, ii. 435; iii. 245; advice to one who has drunk freely, ii. 436; iii. 389; benevolence, drunk from, iii. 327; bottles drunk at a sitting, iii. 243, n. 4; claret and ignorance, iii. 335; claret, port, and brandy distinguished, iii. 381; iv. 79; conversation and benevolence, effect on, iii. 41, 327; daily consumption of wine, iii. 27, n. 1; different, makes a man, v. 325; 'drives away care,' ii. 193; drunk, the art of getting, iii. 389; drunk for want of intellectual resources, ii. 130; freezing, iv. 151, n. 2; in vino veritas, ii. 188; Johnson's abstinence, i. 103, n. 3; advice to drink wine, ib.; not to drink it, iii. 169; 'drink water and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306; life not shortened by a free use of it, iii. 170 (See under JOHNSON, wine); melancholy increased by it, i. 446; patron, drinking to please a, iii. 329: See under BOSWELL, wine, DRINKING and SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. WINGS OF IRON, iv. 356, n. 1. WINIFRED'S WELL, v. 442. WINNINGTON, Thomas, i. 502. WIRGMAN, keeper of a toy-shop, iii. 325. WIRTEMBERG, Prince of, ii. 180. WISE, Francis, Radclivian Librarian, account of him, i. 275, n. 4; Johnson visits him at Elsfield, i. 273; mentioned, i. 278-9, 282, 289, 322. WISEDOME, Robert, v. 444. WISHART, George, THE REFORMER, v. 63, n. 3. WISHART, Dr. William, v. 252. WIT, basis of all wit is truth, ii. 90, n. 3; Chesterfield on the property in it, iii. 351, n. 1; defined in Barrow's Sermon, iv. 105, n. 4; generally false reasoning, iii. 23, n. 3. WITCHES, evidence of their having existed, ii. 178; Johnson's disbelief in them, ii. 179, n. 1; 'machinery of poetry,' iv. 17; Shakespeare's, iii. 382; v. 76, 115, 347; Wesley's belief in them, ii. 178, n. 3; witchcraft, punished by death, v. 45; abolished by act of parliament, ib.; last executions, v. 46, n. 1. WITNESSES, examination of, v. 243. WITS, a celebrated one, iii. 388; the female wits, iv. 103, n. 1. WITTEMBERG, iii. 122, n, 2. WOFFINGTON, Margaret (Peg), Garrick's tea, iii. 264; sister of Mrs. Cholmondeley, iii. 318, n. 3. WOLCOT, John (Peter Pindar), v. 415, n. 4. WOLFE, General,' choice of difficulties,' v. 146. WOLVERHAMPTON, Elwall the quaker ironmonger, ii. 164; epitaph in the church, i. 149, n. 2. WOMEN, Addison's time, in, iv. 217, n. 4; carefulness with money, iv. 33; cookery, cannot make a book of, iii. 285; employment of them, ii. 362, n. 1; envy of men's vices, iv. 291; few opportunities of improving their condition, iv. 33; fortune, of, iii. 3; genteel, more, than men, iii. 53; gluttony, i. 468, n. 1; Greek and pudding-making, i. 122, n. 4; indifferent to characters of men, iv. 291; knowledge, none the worse for, ii. 76; v. 226; little things, can take up with, iii. 242; marrying a pretty woman, iv. 131; men have more liberty allowed them, iii. 286; natural claims, ii. 419; over-match for men, v. 226; Papists, surprising that they are not, iv. 289; pious, not more, than men, iv. 289; portrait-painting improper for them, ii. 362; power given them by nature and law, v. 226, n. 2; preaching, i. 463; quality, of, iii. 353; reading, iii. 333; iv. 217, n. 4; soldiers, as, v. 229; temptations, have fewer, iii. 287; understandings better cultivated, iii. 3; virtuous, more, than of old, iii. 3. Women Servants, wages, ii. 217. Women of the Town, how far admitted to taverns, iv. 75; narrate their histories to Johnson, i. 223, n. 2; iv. 396; one rescued by him, iv. 321; wretched life, i. 457. Wonders, catching greedily at them, i. 498, n. 4; propagating them, iii. 229, n. 3. Wood, Anthony a, Assembly Man, v. 57, n. 2; on Burton's tutor at Christ Church, i. 59; Rawlinson's collections for a continuation of the Athenae, iv. 161, n. 1; styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4. Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248. Woodhouse, the poetical shoemaker, i. 225, n. 1, 520; ii. 127. Woodstock. See BLENHEIM. Woodward, Henry, the actor, ii. 208, n. 5. Woodward, John, iv. 23, n. 3. Woollen Act, ii. 453, n. 2. Woolston, Rev. Thomas, v. 419, n. 2, Woolwich, iii. 268. Worchester, Gwyn