W.
WAG. 'Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,' iv. I, n. 2.
WAIT. 'Sir, I can wait,' iv. 21.
WALK. 'Let us take a walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel, through,
I suppose, the greatest series of shops in the world,' ii. 218.
WANT. 'You have not mentioned the greatest of all their wants—the want of law,' ii. 126; 'Have you no better manners? There is your want,' ii. 475.
WANTS. 'We are more uneasy from thinking of our wants than happy in thinking of our acquisitions' (Windham), iii. 354.
WAR. 'War and peace divide the business of the world,' iii. 361, n. 1.
WATCH. 'He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch, but will not enquire whether the watch is right or not,' ii. 213.
WATER. 'A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,'
v. 34;
'Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred,' iii. 306;
'Water is the same everywhere,' v. 54.
WAY. 'Sir, you don't see your way through that question,' ii. 122.
WEAK-NERVED. 'I know no such weak-nerved people,' iv. 280.
WEALTH. 'The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better,' ii. 226.
WEAR. 'No man's face has had more wear and tear,' ii. 410.
WEIGHT. 'He runs about with little weight upon his mind,' ii. 375.
WELL. 'They are well when they are not ill' (Temple), iv. 379.
WENCH. 'Madam, she is an odious wench,' iii. 298.
WHALES. 'If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales' (Goldsmith), ii. 231.
WHELP. 'It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things,' iii. 51.
WHIG. 'A Whig may be a fool, a Tory must be so' (Horace Walpole),
iv. 117, n. 5;
'He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he
was a very good hater,' i. 190, n. 2;
'He was a Whig who pretended to be honest,' v. 339;
'I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress, but I hate to see
a Whig in a parson's gown,' v. 255;
'Sir, he is a cursed Whig, a bottomless Whig, as they all are now,'
iv. 223;
'Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig,' ii. 170;
'The first Whig was the Devil,' iii. 326;
'Though a Whig, he had humanity' (A. Campbell), v. 357.
WHIGGISM. 'They have met in a place where there is no room for
Whiggism,' v. 385;
'Whiggism was latterly no better than the politics of stock-jobbers,
and the religion of infidels,' ii. 117;
'Whiggism is a negation of all principle,' i. 431.
WHINE. 'A man knows it must be so and submits. It will do him no good to whine,' ii. 107.
WHORE. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a
dancing-master,' i. 266;
'The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't,' ii. 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.