Wages of labourers, ii. 490; v. 56.
Wales, Johnson's tour to, iii. 124.

Prince of, his situation, v. 61.
Walker, the actor, the original Mac-
heath, iii. 244.

Mr. Joseph Cooper, i. 311; iii. 476 n.
Walker, John, the master of elocution,
v. 83.

Wall, Dr. the physician, v. 192.

Waller, Edmund, the poet, ii. 319; iii.
236; iv. 187 n., 403; v. 469.

- Johnson's Life of, iv. 406.

his Divine Poesie,' v. 189 n.
Walmsley, Gilbert, esq., his character,
by Johnson, i. 49, 60, 70, 173, 445.

his letter, recommending Johnson and
Garrick, i. 72.

Walpole, Horace, afterwards Earl of Or-
ford, i. 325 n. ; ii. 33 n.; iii. 216 n,,
409 n., 455; iv. 299, 485; v. 67 n.,
210.

- his character of Johnson's Observa-
tions on Macbeth,' i. 151.

writes the preface to 'Clarissa,' i. 243.
-Johnson's character of, iv. 414, 416,
417; v. 186.

Johnson's conduct towards, iv. 414 n.
his contest with Lowth, ii. 356.
Ward, the noted doctor, iv. 261.
Warrants, general, ii. 74.

Warley camp, Johnson at, iv. 228.
Warner, Richard, his Tour through the
Northern Counties,' v. 288 n.

Warren, Mr., the first bookseller at Bir-
mingham, i. 54.

Warton, Dr. Thomas, i. 142, 177, 243,

his Chemical Essays,' iv. 492; v.116.
- Dr. Robert, his History of Philip the
Second,' ii. 294; iii. 467.

Watts, Dr., i. 296; iii. 489; iv. 225, 237.
Johnson's Life of, iii. 489.

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Way, Daniel, esq., v. 27 n.

-

Mrs., v. 128.

Weather, its influence on the mind, i. 318,
441, 463; v. 275.

-

- the English rallied by the French for
talking of the, i. 441 n.

Wealth, ii. 214; iii. 316; iv. 121, 500.
- right employment of, v. 53.
Webster, Rev. Dr. Alexander, ii. 286,
286 n.; iii. 112, 118.

Wedderburne, Alexander, afterwards Lord
Loughborough, i. 361, 396; iii. 230 n.,
317 ., 367; iv. 400 n.

some account of, ii. 196 n.

Rev. Henry, v. 288.

Whitbread, Samuel, esq., epigram quoted
by him, in allusion to the marriage of
an Austrian Archduchess with Buona-
parte, ii. 457 n.

Whitby's Commentary,' ii. 501.
Whitehead, Paul, i. 95; ii. 348.

William, i. 159, 411.

Whitefield, Rev. George, i. 45; ii. 81,
270; iv. 285, 285 n.

his character, i. 45; ii. 81, 271.
Whitgift, Isaac Walton's eulogy on, iv.
457 n.

'Whole Duty of Man,' conjectures as to
the author of, ii. 227, 227 n.
Whyte, Mr. Edward Anthony, iii. 195 n.,
200 n.

Wickedness, ii. 439; iv. 376.

Wickens, Mr. of Litchfield, anecdotes of
Johnson by, v. 405.

Wife, ii. 57, 58, 78.

Wigs, ii. 392 n.; iv. 184.
Wilcox, Mr., the bookseller, i. 73, 73 π.
Wilkes, John, esq., i. 284, 338, 403 n.;
ii. 75, 90 n., 114, 269 n., 419; iii.
34, 317 n., 426, 436, 439; iv. 34,
79, 182, 315, 417, 421, 474, 477 n.,
479; v. 104.

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- his conduct during the riots in 1780,
iv. 316, 316 n.

his jeu d'esprit on Johnson's Dictionary,
i. 284.

Johnson's opinion of, i. 403; iii. 34,
35 n.; iv. 34.

- meetings between him and Johnson, iii.
426.

- Wilkes, Israel, esq., iii. 427.
Will, Johnson's, v. 346.
Will-making, ii. 246.

'Will' and Shall,' Johnson's use of the
words, i. 60 n.

William the Third, Johnson's character
of, iii. 216, 216 n, 524.

Williams, Mr. Zachariah, his attempts to
ascertain the longitude, i. 285.
some account of, i. 286.

Mrs. Anna, i. 119, 220, 221, 222,
288, 433, 475; ii. 25 n., 100; iii.
256, 391, 391 n., 486, 492, 496;
v. 117, 118, 119, 120, 124, 127.
her death, v. 119, 120.

Miss Helen Maria, v. 180.

her Ode on the Peace,' v. 180, 180 n.
her death, v. 180 n.

Sir Charles Hanbury, ii. 34, 495.
Wilson, Rev. Thomas, his 'Archæological
Dictionary,' v. 39.

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his character, v. 39 n.

Johnson's letter to, v. 40.

Windham, Right Hon. William, iii. 181,
181 n., 483; iv. 222; v. 64, 77, 173,
271, 272, 309, 377, 471.

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Johnson's letters to, v. 107, 277.

- particulars of his last interview with
Johnson, from his private journal, v.
326, 326 n.

Windus's Journey to Mequinez,' iii. 144.
Wine, i. 388; ii. 180, 185, 295, 435;
iii. 324, 325, 405, 406, 407, 407 n.;
iv. 20, 100, 105, 164, 187, 189, 196,
252.

-reason of Johnson's abstinence from,
i. 74.

Winifred's Well, iii. 139.

Wise, Dr. Francis, i. 259.

Wisedom, Robert, his prayer, iii. 143,
143 n.

Wit, iii. 406; iv. 478 n.

Witchcraft, ii. 280, 395, 395 n.
Witches, ii. 173.

in Macbeth, ii. 347.

Wives, iv. 363, 373.

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effects of their non-compliance on petty
occasions, iv. 281.

Word to the Wise,' Johnson's prologue
to, iii. 478.

'World,' the. i. 433.

– injustice of the complaints against the,
v. 51.

World Displayed,' Johnson writes the
Introduction to, i. 336.

Worthington, Dr. William, iii. 142 n.,
149, 154.

Wraxhall, Sir Nathaniel William, iv. 310.
Wrexham, iii. 153.

Wright, Mr. Richard, of Lichfield, iv. 524.
Writers, modern, the moons of literature,
iv. 194.

Writers to the Signet, iii. 39 n.
Writing, alleged pleasure in, v. 100.

Xenophon, iv. 247.

X.

his Treatise of Economy,' iii. 457.
his 'Retreat of the Ten Thousand,'
iv. 363.