VEX.  ’He delighted to vex them, no doubt; but he had more delight in
seeing how well he could vex them,’ ii. 334;
  ‘Sir, he hoped it would vex somebody,’ iv. 9;
  ‘Public affairs vex no man,’ iv. 220.

VICE.  ‘Thy body is all vice, and thy mind all virtue,’ i. 250; ’Madam, you are here not for the love of virtue but the fear of vice,’ ii. 435.

VIRTUE.  ’I think there is some reason for questioning whether virtue cannot stand its ground as long as life,’ iv. 374, n. 5.

Vitam.  ’Vitam continet una dies,’ i, 84.

VIVACITY.  ‘There is a courtly vivacity about the fellow,’ ii. 465;
  ’Depend upon it, Sir, vivacity is much an art, and depends greatly
on habit,’ ii. 462.

Vivite.  ‘Vivite laeti,’ i. 344, n. 4.

VOW.  ‘The man who cannot go to heaven without a vow may go—­,’ iii. 357.

W.

WAG.  ‘Every man has some time in his life an ambition to be a wag,’ iv.  I, n. 2.

WAIT.  ‘Sir, I can wait,’ iv. 21.

WALK.  ’Let us take a walk from Charing Cross to Whitechapel, through,
I suppose, the greatest series of shops in the world,’ ii. 218.

WANT.  ’You have not mentioned the greatest of all their wants—­the
want of law,’ ii. 126;
  ‘Have you no better manners?  There is your want,’ ii. 475.

WANTS.  ’We are more uneasy from thinking of our wants than happy in thinking of our acquisitions’ (Windham), iii. 354.

WAR.  ‘War and peace divide the business of the world,’ iii. 361, n. 1.

WATCH.  ’He was like a man who resolves to regulate his time by a certain watch, but will not enquire whether the watch is right or not,’ ii. 213.

WATER.  ‘A man who is drowned has more water than either of us,’
v. 34;
  ‘Come, Sir, drink water, and put in for a hundred,’ iii. 306;
  ‘Water is the same everywhere,’ v. 54.

WAY.  ‘Sir, you don’t see your way through that question,’ ii. 122.

WEAK-NERVED.  ‘I know no such weak-nerved people,’ iv. 280.

WEALTH.  ‘The sooner that a man begins to enjoy his wealth the better,’ ii. 226.

WEAR.  ‘No man’s face has had more wear and tear,’ ii. 410.

WEIGHT.  ‘He runs about with little weight upon his mind,’ ii. 375.

WELL.  ‘They are well when they are not ill’ (Temple), iv. 379.

WENCH.  ‘Madam, she is an odious wench,’ iii. 298.

WHALES.  ’If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales’ (Goldsmith), ii. 231.

WHELP.  ‘It is wonderful how the whelp has written such things,’ iii. 51.

WHIG.  ‘A Whig may be a fool, a Tory must be so’ (Horace Walpole),
iv. 117, n. 5;
  ’He hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he
was a very good hater,’ i. 190, n. 2;
  ‘He was a Whig who pretended to be honest,’ v. 339;