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 *prisonment, and a fine of ten thousand pounds, is banished, 194. obtains, from Cromwell, permission to return, ibid. received by Cromwell as a kinsman, 195. writes his famous panegyrick on Cromwell, ibid. writes a poem on the death of Cromwell, 196. writes again on the restoration of Charles the second, ibid. returned to parliament for Hastings, 197. obtains from the king the provostship of Eton, but Clarendon refuses to put the seal to the grant, from his not being a clergyman, 198. his opposition to Clarendon on that account, ibid. kindly treated by James the second, 199. prepares for his latter end, 200. died October 21, 1687, and was buried at Beaconsfield, 201. account of his descendants, ibid. his character by Clarendon, ibid. declared he would blot from his works any line that did not contain some motive to virtue, 206. his works characterized, ibid. specimen of his translation of Pastor Fido, 216.

Walmsley, Gilbert, some account of, vii. 380.

Walpole, Horace, travels through France into Italy with Gray, where they quarrel, and each pursues his journey separately, viii. 476.

Walsh, William, his life, vii. 243. born at Aberley, Worcestershire, 1663, 243. entered gentleman commoner at Oxford, 1678, ibid. the best critick in the nation, ibid. member of parliament for Worcestershire, ibid. gentleman of the horse to queen Anne, ibid. a zealous friend to the revolution, ibid. corresponded with Pope, on the pastoral comedy of the Italians, ibid. supposed to have died in 1709, 244. account of his works, ibid. an early encourager of Pope, viii. 239.

War, should be conducted by rules consistent with the universal interest of mankind, ii. 374. different feelings on the approach of, iv. 163. deplorable case of the ladies losing their gallants, ibid. the raising and training an equal number of women recommended, 164. women capable of being defeated, as Braddock, without seeing his enemies; of surrendering Minorca, without a breach; and of looking at Rochfort, 165. every man ought to fight as the single champion, 173. the duty of thinking as if the event depended on a man's counsel, ibid. proposal for erecting a fort on Salisbury plain, resembling Brest, arming it with beef and ale, and using our soldiers to attack it, 174. asses, bulls, turkeys, geese, and tragedians, to be added by way of accustoming the soldiers to noises equally horrid with the war-cry, 175. diminution of the love of truth one of the calamities of war, 238. every method of pacification to be tried before war is engaged in, vi. 199. its miseries little attended to by many, ibid. princes think it necessary to assign some reason for, but frequently a very unsatisfactory one, 463.

Warbois, witches of, conviction of, commemorated in a sermon at Huntingdon, v. 57.

Warburton, W. bishop of Gloucester, observations on his notes on Shakespeare, v. 141. view of the controversy between him and M. Crousaz, on Pope's Essay on Man, 202. his literary and critical character, viii. 288. defends Pope's Essay on Man against Crousaz, 289. commences a friendship with Pope, 290. erects a monument to the memory of Pope, 305.

Warner, Tim, account of his good sort of woman to his wife, iv. 440.

Warriour, the vanity of his wishes, i. 17.

Warton's Essay on Pope, review of, vi. 37.

Watering places, observations on, and on a select set at one of them, iv. 379.

Watts, Dr. Isaac, his life, viii. 380. born at Southampton, 1674, ibid. began with Latin at four years of age, ibid. educated in a dissenting academy, ibid. a maker of verses from fifteen to fifty, ibid. leaves the academy at twenty years of age, 381. tutor to sir John Hartopp's son, becomes preacher at twenty-four years of age, sir Thomas Abney takes him into his house, ibid. his character as a preacher, 383. his moral character, 384. his works characterized, 385. received an unsolicited diploma of D.D. from Edinburgh and Aberdeen, in 1728, 386. died 1748, ibid. his character, ibid.

Wealth, the contempt of it represented in various instances, iii. 111, 112. wrong notions of its usefulness corrected, 115. why the object of general desire, 121. the real importance and influence of it shown in the case of disappointed expectations, 228.