Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc.

Chapter 61

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'Sir, I perceive you are a vile Whig,' ii. 170; 'The first Whig was the Devil,' iii. 326; 'Though a Whig, he had humanity' (A. Campbell), v. 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,'