Truth.

body has a right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth, or hurt himself by telling what is not true,' iii. 364; 'Poisoning the sources of eternal truth,' v. 47. TUMBLING. 'Sir, a man will no more carry the artifice of the Bar into the common intercourse of society, than a man who is paid for tumbling upon his hands will continue to tumble upon his hands when he should walk on his feet,' ii. 54. TURN. He had no turn to economy' (Langton), iii. 413, n. I. TURNPIKE. For my own part now, I consider supper as a turnpike through which one must pass in order to get to bed' (Boswell or Edwards), iii. 348.

TURNSPIT. The fellow is as awk

ward as a turnspit when first put into the wheel, and as sleepy as a dormouse,' iv. 474.

TYRANNY. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny,' ii. 195.

U.

Virtue.

UNDERSTANDING. 'Sir, I have found you an argument, but I am not obliged to find you an understanding,' iv. 362; 'When it comes to dry understanding, man has the better [of woman],' iii: 61.

UNEASY. 'I am angry with him who makes me uneasy,' iii. 12. UNPLIABLE.

'She had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding,' v. 337.

UNSETTLE. 'They tended to unsettle everything, and yet settled nothing,' ii. 142.

USE. Never mind the use; do it,' ii. 105.

V.

VACUITY. I find little but dismal vacuity, neither business nor pleasure,' iii. 432, n. 3; 'Madam, I do not like to come down to vacuity,'

ii. 470.

VERSE. 'Verse sweetens toil' (Gifford), v. 134.

VERSES. 'They are the forcible verses of a man of strong mind, but not accustomed to write verse,' iv. 29. VEX. 'He delighted to vex them, no doubt; but he had more delight in seeing how well he could vex them,' ii. 382; 'Sir, he hoped it would vex somebody,' iv. II; 'Public affairs vex no man,' iv. 255.

WAIT. 'Sir, I can wait,' iv. 25. WALK. 'Let us take a walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel, through, I suppose, the greatest series of shops in the world,' ii. 251. WANT. 'You have not mentioned the greatest of all their wants-the want of law,' ii. 145; 'Have you no better manners? There is your want,' ii. 545.

WANTS. 'We are more uneasy from

thinking of our wants than happy in thinking of our acquisitions' (Windham), iii. 403.

WAR. 'War and peace divide the

business of the world,' iii. 410, n. 2. WATCH. He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch, but will not enquire whether the watch is right or not,' ii. 245. WATER. 'A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,' v. 387; 'Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred,' iii. 348; Water is the same everywhere,' v. 60.

WAY. 'Sir, you don't see your way through that question,' ii. 140.

WHIG. 'A Whig may be a fool, a

Tory must be so' (Horace Walpole), iv. 136, n. 4; 'He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater,' i. 220, n. 2; 'He was a Whig who pretended to be honest,' v. 386; 'I do not like much to see a Whig in any dress, but I hate to see a Whig in a parson's gown,' v. 291; 'Sir, he is a cursed Whig, a bottomless Whig, as they all are now,' iv. 257; ‘Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig,' ii. 195; The first Whig was the Devil,' iii. 371; Though a Whig, he had humanity' (A. Campbell), v. 406. WHIGGISM. They have met in a place where there is no room for Whiggism,' v. 439; 'Whiggism was latterly no better than the politics of stock-jobbers, and the religion of infidels,' ii. 135; 'Whiggism is a negation of all principle,' i. 499.

Whine.

WHINE. A man knows it must be so and submits. It will do him no good to whine,' ii. 123. WHORE. 'They teach the morals of a whore and the manners of a dancingmaster,' i. 309; 'The woman's a whore, and there's an end on't,' ii. 283. See SLUT. WHY, SIR.

Why, Sir, as to the good or evil of card-playing—,' iii. 27. WIG. 'In England any man who wears a sword and a powdered wig is ashamed to be illiterate,' iii. 288. WILDS. See BRIARS.

WIND. 'The noise of the wind was

all its own' (Boswell), v. 464. WINDOW. See SOFT.

WINE. 'I now no more think of drinking wine than a horse does,' iii. 283; 'It is wine only to the eye,' iii. 434;This is one of the disadvantages of wine. It makes a man mistake words for thoughts,' iii. 374: 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. 460.

WIT. 'His trade is wit,' iii. 442; 'His trade was wisdom' (Baretti), iii. 155, n. 2; 'Sir, Mrs. Montagu does not make a trade of her wit,' iv. 317; 'This man, I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords,' i. 308; Wit is generally false reasoning' (Wycherley), iii. 27, n. 2. WITHOUT. 'Without ands or ifs,' &c. (anonymous poet), v. 145. WOMAN. 'No woman is the worse for sense and knowledge,' v. 257.

envy of our vices,' iv. 336. WONDER. The natural desire of man to propagate a wonder,' iii. 260, n. 1; 'Sir, you may wonder,' ii. 17. WONDERS. 'Catching greedily at wonders,' i. 576, 1. 4.

WOOL. 'Robertson is like a man who has packed gold in wool; the wool takes up more room than the gold,' ii. 272.

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. 286.

WORLD.

'All the complaints which are made of the world are unjust,' iv. 198; 'Poets who go round the world,' v. 354; 'One may be so much a man of the world as to be nothing in the world,' iii. 427; 'The world has always a right to be regarded,' ii. 85, n. 2; This world where much is to be done, and little to be known,' iv. 426, n. 3; That man sat down to write a book to tell the world what the world had all his life been telling him,' ii. 144. WORST. It may be said of the worst man that he does more good than evil,' iii. 268.