394
INDEX.
Wotton (Mr). His defence of his reflections, ii. 30. Discourse of ancient and modern learning, 83. Acutely reckons divinity and law among the branches of knowledge in which we excel the ancients, 132. The part he bore in the dispute between the ancients and moderns, 243.
Wotton (sir Henry). His style too courtly and unintelligible, v. 199.
Writ of Errour. Not to be granted in a criminal case, without direction from the king, xii. 47.
Writers. How one may gain the favour of posterity, v. 455. The number of them very far from being a nuisance to our nation, ii. 62. Two of the privileges common to them mentioned, 63. The liberty of praising themselves warranted by a multitude of great examples, ibid. Some of them, knowing that nettles have the prerogative of stinging, idly suppose all other weeds must do so, 64. Want of taste and correctness among writers in general, owing partly to ignorance, and partly to false refinements of the English language, v. 193, 194. Political writers are usually very intelligible to inhabitants of the metropolis; but less so in proportion to their reader's distance from it, iv. 22.
Wyndham (sir William). Adheres to Bolingbroke, iv. 334. Particulars respecting the fire by which his house was burned, xv. 274. In the opposition, against the vote for paying the Hanover troops, xi. 416.
Y.
Yahoos. Their form described, vi. 259. Hate one another more than any different species of animals, 307. Have a strange disposition to dirt and nastiness, 312. Are the most unteachable of all animals, chiefly from a restive disposition, 316. A debate, at a general assembly of the Houhynhnms, about exterminating them, 322-325. Swift seems to have conceived his idea of them at an early period, xviii. 414.
Yahoo's Overthrow. A song, viii. 162.
York (New). The finest air there in the universe, xi. 251.
Young (Dr). Verses on reading his Universal Passion, vii. 342. His satires have many mixtures of sharp raillery, xii. 440. His poetry reflected on by the dean, xviii. 453.
Youth. Their education always worse in proportion to the wealth and grandeur of their parents; consequently those of the highest quality have in general the least share of it, v. 122.
Zeal.
