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.
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