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.