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Women. Have certain characteristicks, which enable them to form a truer judgment of human abilities than men, ii. 275. Why a little wit is valued in them, v. 464. Take more pains to be fools than would serve to make them wise, 140. Wear the distinguishing marks of party in their dress, iii. 148. Under their present corruptions, seem sent into the world for our sins, to be the destruction of societies and kingdoms, ix. 368. Use lovers as they do cards, xvii. 382. Are like riddles, ibid. Why they frequent tragedies more than comedies, 386. Whether women of taste for books, wit, and humour, are the best wives, in the present situation of the world, xvi. 274. Have in general an inconceivable pleasure in finding out any faults but their own, xii. 370. See Ladies.
Wood (William). Various poetical pieces relative to him, vii. 313-324. xviii. 434. Full and true Account of his Procession to the Gallows, ix. 191. His patent to coin 108000l. in copper, for the use of Ireland, ix. 16. The dean preached a sermon on that occasion, 151. A shilling in his money worth little more than a penny, 17. xiii. 122. A computation of the loss to be sustained by his coinage, ix. 51; and of the advantages to himself, 52. Uses Mr. Walpole's name and authority as a means to force his halfpence on the Irish, 98. He and his advocates propose that the currency of his coin should be enforced by proclamation, 147. Presentment of the Grand Jury of Dublin respecting Wood's coin, i. 228. Letters to and from lord Carteret, on the subject, xii. 116. 121.
Woodward (Dr). Remark on his dissertation on an antique shield, xiii. 309.
Wool. The manufacture of it exceeds above ten times the prime cost, ix. 173.
Woolaston (author of The Religion of Nature delineated). A layman, xiii. 424. Admired at court, his book much read, and his bust set up by queen Caroline at Richmond, with those of Clarke and Locke, ibid.
Words. A scheme for abolishing the use of them, vi. 213. In criminal causes, should have the most favourable construction, ix. 151. An index expurgatorius requisite, to expunge all words and phrases offensive to good sense, v. 198. An errour to spell them as pronounced, ibid. viii. 260. Impossible for a man who is ignorant of the force and compass of them, to write either pertinently or intelligibly upon the most obvious subjects, xvi. 196. Natural elocution springs from a barrenness of invention and of words, v. 235.
World. Mr. Whiston's prediction of the approaching dissolution of it, xvii. 359.
Worms.
