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Willoughby of Brook (lord). Dr. Verney, prebendary of Windsor, sat in the house of peers in his gown, xv. 108.
Wills. Two kinds of them, ii. 95. Codicils annexed to them are of equal authority with the rest, 97. The use made of these considerations by the three brothers Peter, Martin, and Jack, 98. Dr. Swift's last will, i. 529. The intention of the testator in them is chiefly regarded by the law, xiii. 284.
Wind. The principle whence the universe was at first produced, and into which it will at last be resolved, ii. 152.
Windsor. A prophesy said to be found buried in the cloisters there [a political allusion to the reign of queen Anne], vii. 74.
Wine. Gulliver's reasons for the use of it in England, vi. 298. Wine merchants in Ireland, who have most of the present trade there, are the most fraudulent dealers, ix. 394. Reasons against laying an additional duty on wine in Ireland, 347.
Wisdom. Several things enumerated, to which it is like, i. 80. Some take more care to hide it than their folly, v. 460. A great blessing, when applied to good purposes, x. 42. Wherein it consists in the management of publick affairs, xi. 160. The wisdom of the ancient heathen not magnified in primitive times, x. 136, 137. Christian wisdom described, 144. Wherein it consists, xii. 327. Attended by virtue and a generous nature, apt to be imposed on, vi. 301.
Wishart (sir James). His reception, when sent from England to expostulate with the States, iii. 366.
Wit. Present State of, xviii. 27. Nothing so tender as a modern piece of wit, ii. 60. Common sense a proper ingredient in it, xvi. 227. What the greatest advantage of being thought to have it, xvii. 377. A man possessed of it not incapable of business, but above it, ibid. Why offensive in a fool's company, 381. Whence it proceeds, according to sir Richard Blackmore, xvii. 329. Humour the most useful and agreeable species of it, v. 209. The Spaniards and Italians allowed to have the most wit of any nation in Europe, 211. Though a wit need not have religion, religion is necessary to a wit, 242. A new fashioned way of becoming one, xi. 12.
Wits. What their current number in Great Britain, ii. 58. In Ireland, v. 263. Their dignity seldom sufficiently considered either by themselves or others, v. 190.
Wogan (chevalier). Some account of him, xii. 436. xix. 69. Letters to him, xii. 436. xiii. 208. Many of his writings in the possession of Mr. Deane Swift, xii. 436. His letter to Swift on the Irish nation, xix. 69.
Wolston. Prosecuted for blasphemous writings, his book burnt, and himself put into prison, where he died, xiii. 424.
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