Dr Isaac, a learned and pious dissenting minister, was born at Southampton in 1674. In 1690 he was sent to London for his academical education under the charge of the Rev. Thomas Rowe; and in 1696 he was engaged as tutor to the son of Sir John Hartopp, Bart., at Stoke Newington. He began to preach in 1698, and met with general acceptance; and after officiating as an assistant to the Rev. Dr Isaac Chauncy, he succeeded to his pastoral charge in 1702, and continued to preside over that church as long as he lived. Though his whole income did not amount to a hundred a year, he allotted one-third of it to the poor. He died in 1748. His numerous works have had an extraordinary popularity; and they have rendered his name well known among people of every denomination, and have been translated into a variety of languages. His Lyric Poems, his Psalms and Hymns, and his Divine Songs for Children, were once exceedingly popular. He likewise wrote on logic and philosophy, but there he was not qualified to shine. His special treatises on Logic, and on the Improvement of the Mind, while tolerable expositions of philosophy for an Englishman at the time at which Watts flourished, are nevertheless very far short of perfection; and while his Logic held a first place as a text-book in many colleges in England long after his death, it would be difficult now to point to a single institution where Watts' name is counted of any weight in philosophy. He also wrote works upon a variety of other subjects, and printed several volumes of his sermons. He was admired for the mildness and benevolence of his disposition. After his death, his Works were collected, and published in six volumes quarto, 1753.

Wavre, a town of Belgium, in the province of South Brabant, on the Dyle, 15 miles S.E. of Brussels. It has a fine parish church, a college, and several schools; manufactures of cotton yarn, hats, leather, and beer; and an active trade in corn, cattle, and tobacco. A sanguinary battle was fought here on the same day as that of Waterloo, between the Prussians under Thielman, and a body of French under Grouchy, by which the latter were prevented from joining Napoleon's army. Pop. 58,413.