blessing, when applied to good purposes, xiv. 42. Wherein it con-
sists in the management of public affairs, xv. 173. The wisdom of
the ancient heathen, not magnified in primitive times, xiv. 131,
132. Christian wisdom described, 137. Wherein it consists, xvii.
275. Attended by virtue and a generous nature, apt to be imposed
on, xiv. 267.
Wishart, Sir James-His reception, when sent from England to ex-
postulate with the States, v. 290.
Wit-Present state of, xxiv. 153. Nothing so tender as a modern
piece of wit, iii. 52. Common sense a proper ingredient in it, iv.
87. What the greatest advantage of being thought to have it
xxiii. 366 A man possessed of it not incapable of business, but
above it, ibid. Why offensive in a fool's company, 368. Whence
in proceeds, according to Sir Richard Blackmore, 347. Humour,
the most useful and agreeable species of it, viii. 231. The Span-
ards and Italians allowed to have the most wit of any nation in
Europe, 232. Though a wit need not have religion, religion is
necessary to a wit, 61. A new-fashioned way of becoming one,
Wits-What their current number in Great Britain, iii. 51. In Ire-
land, viii. 80. Their dignity seldom sufficiently considered either
by themselves or others, 209.
Wogan, Colonel-Saved Charles II's life at the battle of Worcester,
xviii. 153.
Chevalier Charles-Some account of him, xviii, 95, 126. Let-
ters to him, xviii. 95. xix. 183. Many of his writings in the pos-
session of Mr. Deane Swift, xviii. 95. His letter to Swift on the
Irish nation, 126.
Tolston Prosecuted for blasphemous writings, his book burnt, and
meltput into prison, where he died, xx. 210. Confounded with
Woolaston, xi. 267.
oman The Furniture of a Woman's Mind, xi. 63. A gentle Echo
on, xxiv. 68.
inen-Have certain characteristics, which enable them to form a
fer judgment of human abilities than men, iii. 263. Why a little
Vits valued in them, xiv. 175. Take more pains to be fools than
would serve to make them wise, viii. 89. Wear the distinguished
marks of party in their dress, v. 141. Under their present corrup-
os, seem sent into the world for our sins, to be the destruction of
teties and kingdoms, xiii. 63. Use lovers as they do cards, xxiii.
Are like riddles, ibid. Why they frequent tragedies more
comedies, 371. Whether women of taste for books, wit, and
nour, are the best wives, in the present situation of the world,
236. Have in general an inconceivable pleasure in finding out
faults but their own, xviii. 34. See Ladies.
der of all the Wonders, that ever the World wondered at, viii.
paderful Wonder of Wonders-viii. 134.
ood, William-Various poetical pieces relative to him, xi. 5. 18.
Full and true Account of his Procession to the Gallows, xii. 261.
Flis patent to coin 108000l. in copper, for the use of Ireland, 99. The
Dean preached a sermon on that occasion, 224. A shilling in his
money worth little more than a penny, 99. xix. 75. A computation
of the loss to be sustained by his coinage, xii. 131, and of the ad-
vantages to himself, 132. Uses Mr. Walpole's name and authority
as a means to force his halfpence on the Irish, 173. He and his ad-
vocates propose that the currency of his coin should be enforced by
proclamation, 220. Presentment of the Grand Jury of Dublin res
pecting Wood's coin, xii. 182. Letters to and from Lord Carteret
on the subject, xvii. 2, 10.
Woodward, Dr-Remark on his dissertation on an antique shield, xx.
73. Ridiculed in the character of Cornelius Scriblerus, ibid.
Wool-The manufacture of it exceeds above ten times the prime cost,
xii. 244.
Woolaston, author of The Religion of Nature delineated-A layman,
xx. 210. Admired at court, his book much read, and his bust set
up by queen Caroline at Richmond, with those of Clarke and Locke,
ibid.
Words-A scheme for abolishing the use of them, ix. 206. In criminal
causes, should have the most favourable construction, xii. 224. An
index expurgatorius requisite, to expunge all words and phrases
offensive to good sense, viii. 187. An error to spell them as pro-
nounced, ibid. xxii. 258. Impossible for a man who is ignorant of
the force and compass of them, to write either pertinently or intel-
ligibly upon the most obvious subjects, iv. 58. Natural elocution
springs from a barrenness of invention and of words, viii. 54.
World Mr. Whiston's prediction of the approaching dissolution of
it, xxiv. 91.
Worms A virtuoso solved all difficulties in philosophy by them,
iv. 57.
Worrall, Mrs-Her strong, clear voice, xvii. 242.
Worsley, Lady Frances-xviii. 5.
Wotton, Sir Henry-His style too courtly and unintelligible, viii
Wotton, Mr-His defence of his Reflections, iii. 27. Discourse of
ancient and modern learning, 73. Acutely reckons divinity and
law among the branches of knowledge in which we excel the an-
cients, 118. The part he bore in the dispute between the ancients
and moderns, 232.
Wrighte, Sir Nathan-His character, vi. 164.
Writ of Error-Not to be granted in a criminal case, without direction
from the king, xvi. 235.
Writers-How one may gain the favour of posterity, xiv. 166. The
number of them very far from being a nuisance to our nation, iii.
54. Two of the privileges common to them mentioned, 55. The
liberty of praising themselves warranted by a multitude of great
examples, ibid. Some of them, knowing that nettles have the
prerogative of stinging, idly suppose all other weeds must do so, 56
Want of taste and correctness among writers in general, owing
partly to ignorance, and partly to false refinements of the English
language, viii. 184, 185. Political writers are usually very in-
telligible to inhabitants of the metropolis, but less so in proportion
to their reader's distance from it, vii. 21.
Windham, Sir William-Adheres to Bolingbroke, vi. 320. Parti-
culars respecting the fire by which his house was burned, xxii. 91.
In the opposition, against the vote for paying the Hanover
troops, xvi. 109.
Yahoos Their form described, ix. 250. Hate one another more
than any different species of animals, 293. Have a strange dispo-
sition to dirt and nastiness, 298. Are the most unteachable of all
animals, chiefly from a restive disposition, 301. A debate, at a
general assembly of the Houbynhnms, about exterminating them,
307, 309. Swift seems to have conceived his idea of them at an
early period, x. 36.
Yahoo's Overthrow-A song, xi. 302.
Yarmouth, countess of-xx. 181.
York, New-The finest air there in the universe, xv. 261.
Young, Dr-Verses on reading his Universal Passion, xi. 33. His
poetry reflected on by the Dean, 395. His satires have many
mixtures of sharp raillery, xviii. 99.
Young Lady's Complaint for the Dean's Stay in England, xi. 45.
Younger, Dr-xvi. 133.
Youth Their education always worse in proportion to the wealth
and grandeur of their parents; consequently those of the highest
quality have in general the least share of it, viii. 37.
Zeal-Violent zeal for truth has a hundred to one odds to be either
petulancy, ambition, or pride, xiv. 158.
Zeno-The ill consequences which result from his doctrine, that all
crimes are equal, xiv. 136.
Zinzendorf, Count-By direct orders from the imperial court, em-
ploys himself in creating divisions between Britain and the Stater,
vii, 181, 192, 206.
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