Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.

Life of Johnson, Volume 6 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 720 pages of information about Life of Johnson, Volume 6.
WESLEY, Mrs. (mother of Charles and John Wesley), i. 46, n. 4. 
WEST, Gilbert, in the army, iii. 267, n. 1;
  translation of Pindar, iv. 28. 
WEST, Richard, describes Christ Church, Oxford, i. 76, n. 1;
  lines on his own death, iii. 165, n. 3. 
WEST, Rev. W., edition of Rasselas, i. 340, n. 3. 
WEST INDIAN ISLANDS in 1779, iii. 408, n. 4;
  mentioned, ii. 455: 
  see JAMAICA and SLAVES. 
WESTCOTE, Lord, Johnson and the Thrales visit him, v. 456, n. 1;
   Lord Lyttelton’s vision, iv. 298;
   portrait at Streatham, iv. 158, n. 1;
   mentioned, iv. 57, n. 1, 58, n. 3. 
WESTERN ISLANDS.  See under BOSWELL, Journal of a Tour to the
   Hebrides, Journey to the Western
   Islands
, MARTIN, M., and SCOTLAND, Hebrides. 
WESTMINSTER.  See under LONDON. 
WESTMINSTER, Deanery of, resignation of the, iii. 113, n. 2. 
WESTMINSTER ABBEY, Chambers’s epitaph, i. 219, n. 1;
  Cibber’s, Mrs., grave, v. 126, n, 5;
  Goldsmith’s epitaph, iii. 82;
    and Johnson at the Poets’ Corner, ii. 238;
  Handel musical meeting, iv. 283;
  Johnson’s grave, iv. 419, 423;
  Jonson’s, Ben, grave, v. 402, n. 5;
  Macpherson’s grave, ii. 298, n. 2;
  Milton’s monument, i. 227, n. 4;
  Reynolds describes its monuments, iv. 423, n. 2;
  ‘walls disgraced with an English inscription,’ iii. 85. 
WESTMORELAND, seventh Earl of,
  Chancellor of the University of Oxford, i. 348, n. 2;
  meets the Pretender in London, i. 279, n. 5. 
WETHERELL, Rev. Dr., Boswell and Johnson visit him, ii. 440;
  Johnson’s letter to him, ii. 424;
  mentioned, ii. 356; iv. 308. 
WEY, River, ii. 136, n. 2; iii. 362, n. 5. 
WHARNCLIFFE, Lord, iii. 399, n. 1. 
WHARTON, Marquis of, iv. 317, n. 3. 
WHARTON, Rev. Henry, ii. 242, n. 3. 
WHEAT, price of, in 1778, iii. 226, n. 2. 
  See CORN. 
WHEATLEY, near Oxford, iv. 308. 
WHEATLEY, Mr. H. B., Wraxall’s Memoirs, ii. 40, n. 4.
  Wheatly and Bennet on the Common Prayer, iv. 212, n. 4. 
WHEELER, Rev. Dr., death, iii. 366, n. 4; iv. 233, n. 3;
  experience as a country parson, iii. 437;
  Johnson’s liking for his talk, iii. 366, n. 4; 307;
    letter to him, iii. 366;
  mentioned, v. 458, n. 1. 
WHEELER, Mr., of Birmingham, v. 458. 
WHIGGISM, corrupted since the Revolution, ii. 117;
  hounds, its, iv. 40, 63;
  Lyttelton’s vulgar Whiggism, ii. 221;
  no room for it in heaven, v. 385. 
WHIGS, almsgiving, against, ii. 212;
  bottomless, iv. 223;
  defined, i. 294, 431, n. 1;
  devil, the first Whig the, iii. 326; iv. 317, n. 3;
  every bad man a Whig, v. 271;
  Fergusson ‘a vile Whig,’ ii. 170;
  governed, not willing to be, ii. 314;
  hall fireplace, moved the, i. 273;
  humane one, a, v. 357;
  ‘is any King a Whig?’ iii. 372, n. 3;
  nation quiet when they governed, iv. 100;
  parson’s gown, in a, v. 255;
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