of his words, 52; his early
speeches bombastic, 124; his
use of plain words, 124; his
temperance of language, 192.
Wellington, on his "duty," 64.
Whately, Archbishop, his sim-
plicity in preaching, 123.
whether, 453.

Whipple, E. P., on the words of
Chaucer, Edwards, and Barrow,
54; on the suggestiveness of
Shakespeare's diction, 54, 55;
on the styles of Sydney Smith,
Bacon, Locke, etc., 219, 220;
his style, 237; his knowledge of
English literature, 237.
Whitney, W. D., quoted, 234.
Whittington and his cat, 417.
whole, entire, complete, total,
460, 469.
William, 326.

Willmott, Rev. Robert A., on
Dryden's and Pope's versifica-
tion, 253.
window, 404.

wiseacre, 414.

wit, 380.

Wolcott, Dr., his lines on John-
son, 113.
woman, 391.

women, their language, 240.
Words, their significance, 1-61;
their range and power, 2, 46;
are things, 3; Mirabeau on, 3;
Hazlitt on, 3; more enduring
than sculpture or painting, 4,
5; Homer's, 5; the incarnation
of thought, 6; Milton's, 7-9;
Montgomery on Milton's, 8, 9;
Bacon's, 10; Dryden's, 10; Mon-
taigne's, 10; Rousseau's, 10;
Coleridge's, 10; Tennyson's, 11;
Swinburne's, 11; De Quincey's
mastery of them, 12; of the
17th century writers, 13; diffi-
culty of defining, 14-16; Daniel
Webster's study of, 17; Lord
Chatham's study of, 17; Will-
iam Pinkney's study of, 17;
Theophile Gautier's fondness
for picturesque, 19; comprehen- |

sive, 23; their use a test of
culture, 25, 26; should fit close
to the thought, 26; never strict-
ly synonymous, 26; Wm. Pitt's
use of, 96; Robert Hall's use
of, 26; John Foster's scrutiny
of, 27; Thomas Moore's use of,
27; how used by the ancient
writers, 27-30; Demosthenes's
choice of, 28, 29; Cicero's use
of, 29; Cowper on, 34; their
necromantic power, 34, 35; how
regarded by the ancients, 43-
45; use of in "the black art,"
45; T. W. Higginson on, 46;
Prof. Maurice on, 46; Haw-
thorne on their spells, 47; their
meaning and force depend up-
on the man who uses them, 50–
56; E. P. Whipple on the trans-
figuration of common, 54; sug-
gestiveness of Shakespeare's, 54,
55; media for the emission of
character, 55, 56; no new ones
can be invented, 56, 57; diffi-
culty of restoring obsolete, 57;
their significance disclosed by
life, 59, 60; their morality, 62-
104; an index to character, 62-
104; their power over the pop-
ular imagination, 82; test of
thought, 82; embalm mistaken
opinions, 84; Bacon on their
power, 84; Balzac on their
witchery, 85; South on the en-
chantment of popular ones,
85, 86, 87; illustrations of their
power, 86, 87; their influence
in theology, 88, 89; their influ-
ence in science, 89; their influ-
ence upon authors, 90; em-
ployed as expletives, 90; calum-
nious, 92; their power in politics,
93; Bulwer on their influence,
93; their perversions by the
Greeks and Romans, 96; used
to gloss over vices, 99, 100;
auctionee.' use of, 100; crimi-
nality of their corruptors, 101,
102; James Martineau on, 103;
a startling fact about them,