i. 141;
    inveighs against him, i. 164;
  learned, neglected the, v. 59, n. 1;
  levee, his bow at a, iii. 90;
  ministry stable and grateful, ii. 348;
  patriots, iv. 87, n. 2;
  peace-minister, i. 131; v. 339, n. 3;
  Pitt, distinguished from, ii. 195;
  Pope’s pride in him, iii. 347, n. 2;
  prime-minister, a real, ii. 355; iv. 81;
  ‘read, I cannot,’ ii. 337, n. 4;
  read Sydenham, v. 93, n. 4;
  talked bawdy at his table, iii. 57;
  Tories and Jacobites, confounded, i. 429, n. 4;
  ‘Walelop’ and ‘Right Hon. M. Tullius Cicero,’ i. 502;
  Whiggism under him, ii. 117;
  Yonge, Sir W., character of, i. 197, n. 4;
  mentioned, v. 285, n. 1. 
WALSALL, i. 86, n. 2. 
WALSH, William,
  ‘knowing,’ i. 251, n. 2;
  Retirement, ii. 133, n. 1. 
WALSINGHAM, Admiral, iii. 21, n. 2. 
WALTON, Isaac, Complete Angler, iv. 311;
  Donne’s vision, ii. 445;
  Lives, his, one of Johnson’s favourite books, ii. 363;
    projected edition, ii. 279, 283-5, 445; iii. 107;
  low situation in life, ii. 364;
  a great panegyrist, ib.;
  quotes Topsell, i. 138, n. 5. 
WANTS, fewness of, ii. 474, n. 3, 475. 
WAR,
  encourages falsehoods, iii. 267, n. 1;
  Kames’s opinion ridiculed, i. 393, n. 2;
  lawfulness, ii. 226;
  miseries of it, ii. 134;
  one side or other must prevail, iv. 200;
  talk of it, iii. 265. 
WARBURTON, William, Bishop of Gloucester,
  abuse, extended his, v. 93;
  Allen’s niece, married, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80;
  Birch, Dr., letter to, i. 28;
  ‘blazes,’ v. 81;
  Boswell imitates his manner, iii. 310, n. 4;
  Churchill attacks him, iv. 49, n. 1; v. 81, n. 2;
  Divine Legation, i. 235, n. 3; iv. 48;
  quotations from it, v. 423;
  Doctrine of Grace, v. 93;
  ‘flounders well,’ v. 93, n. 1;
  general knowledge, ii. 36;
  Helvetius, would have worked, iv. 261, n. 3;
  infidelity, prevalence of, ii. 359, n. 1;
  Johnson’s account of him, v. 80;
    and Chesterfield, i. 263;
    gratitude to him, i. 176;
    and he cannot bear each other’s style, iv. 48;
    Macbeth, praises, i. 175;
    meets him, iv. 47, n. 2, 48;
    praises him, i. 263, n. 3; iv. 46-9;
    treats him with great respect, iv. 288;
  lie, use of the word, iv. 49;
  Lincoln’s Inn preacher, ii. 37, n. 1;
  Lowth, controversy with, ii. 37; v. 125, 423;
  Mallet attacks him, i. 329;
    Life of Bacon, iii. 194;
    projected Life of Marlborough, iii. 194;
  metaphysics, ignorance of, v. 81, n. 1;
  Parr’s Tracts by Warburton, &c., iv. 47, n. 2;
  Pope’s Essay on Man, ii. 37, n. 1; iii. 402, n. 1; v. 80;
    made him a Bishop, ii. 37, n. 1; v. 80;
    want of genius, v. 92, n. 4
  reading, great and wide, ii. 36; iv. 48-9; v. 57, n. 3, 81;