Wealth of Nations, various dates of composition
toolmarked in
the text, 256;
publication, 284;
reception, 285;
Hume’s letter on, 286;
Gibbon on, 287;
quoted in Parliament, 290;
editions, 293;
early influence on public affairs, 294;
Danish translation, 356;
French translations, 359;
German, 359;
Spanish, 360;
letter of Smith to Cadell about third
edition, 362
Webster, Dr. A., lists of examinable persons, 399, 400
Wedderburn, Alexander (Earl of Rosslyn), attends Smith’s
lectures, 32;
connection with Foulis’s Academy
of Design, 75;
editor of Edinburgh Review, 121
Whiggism, Smith’s, 162, 379, 389, 410
Whist, Smith at, 97
Wilberforce, Bishop, account of Smith’s altercation with Johnson, 156
Wilberforce, William, opinion of Smith, 447;
promoter of British Fisheries Society,
408
Wilkes, John, Smith on, 163
Wilkie, the poet, on Smith, 102
Will, Smith’s, 436
Wilson, Professor A., his type-foundry, 71;
Smith’s interest in the foundry,
77;
new foundry in Glasgow College grounds,
78
Windham, William, on Smith’s house in Edinburgh,
326;
romantic incident, 394;
on Smith’s family circle, 395
Windischgraetz, Count J.N. de, his proposed reform
of legal
terminology, 376
Wordsworth, William, on Smith as a critic, 34