247. See SLUT.
WHY, SIR. 'Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing--,' iii. 23.
WIG. 'In England any man who wears a sword and a powdered wig is ashamed to be illiterate,' iii. 254.
WILDS. See BRIARS.
WIND. 'The noise of the wind was all its own' (Boswell), v. 407.
WINDOW. See SOFT.
WINE. 'I now no more think of drinking wine than a horse does,' iii. 250; 'It is wine only to the eye,' iii. 381; 'This is one of the disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts,' iii. 329: See SENSE.
WISDOM. 'Every man is to take care of his own wisdom, and his own virtue, without minding too much what others think,' iii. 405.
WIT. 'His trade is wit,' iii. 389; 'His trade was wisdom' (Baretti), iii. 137, n. 1; 'Sir, Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit,' iv. 275; 'This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords,' i. 266; 'Wit is generally false reasoning' (Wycherley), iii. 23, n. 3.
WITHOUT. 'Without ands or ifs,' &c. (anonymous poet), v. 127.
WOMAN. 'No woman is the worse for sense and knowledge,' v. 226.
WOMAN'S. 'Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all,' i. 463.
WOMEN. 'Women have a perpetual envy of our vices,' iv. 291.
WONDER. 'The natural desire of man to propagate a wonder,' iii. 229, n. 3; 'Sir, you may wonder, ii. 15.
WONDERS. 'Catching greedily at wonders,' i. 498, n. 4.
WOOL. 'Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool; the wool takes up more room than the gold,' ii. 237.
WORK. 'How much do you think you and I could get in a week if we were to work as hard as we could?' i. 246.
WORLD. 'All the complaints which are made of the world are unjust,' iv. 172; 'Poets who go round the world,' v. 311; 'One may be so much a man of the world as to be nothing in the world,' iii. 375; 'The world has always a right to be regarded, ii. 74, n. 3; 'This world where much is to be done, and little to be known,' iv. 370, n. 3; 'That man sat down to write a book to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him,' ii. 126.
WORST. 'It may be said of the worst man that he does more good than evil,' iii. 236.
WORTH. 'Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see,' iii. 410.
WRITE. 'A man should begin to write soon,' iv. 12.
WRITING. 'I allow you may have pleasure from writing after it is over, if you have written well; but you don't go willingly to it again,' iv. 219.
WRITTEN. 'I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read,' ii. 48, n. 2; 'No man was ever written down but by himself (Bentley), v. 274.
WRONG. 'It is not probable that two people can be wrong the same way,' iv. 5.
Y.
YELPS. 'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' iii. 201.
YES. 'Do you know how to say yes or no properly?' (Swift), iv. 295, n. 5.
Z.
ZEALOUS. 'I do not love a man who is zealous for nothing' (Goldsmith), iii. 376.