'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;
marry