ge, Dublin, i. 489.
LAW, William,
Behmen, a follower of, ii. 122;
each man's knowledge of his own guilt, iv. 294;
Johnson's _Dictionary_, cited in, iv. 4, n. 3;
_Serious Call_,
praised by Johnson, i. 68; ii. 122; iv. 286, n. 3, 311;
by Gibbon, Wesley and Whitefield, i. 68, n. 2;
by Psalmanazar, iii. 445.
LAW,
Coke's definition of it, iii. 16, n. 1;
honesty compatible with the practice of it, ii. 47, 48, n. 1; v. 26, 72;
laws last longer than their causes, ii. 416;
manners, made and repealed by, ii. 419;
particular cases, not made for, iii. 25;
primary notion is restraint, ii. 416;
reports, English and Scotch, ii. 220;
writers on it need not have practised it, ii. 430.
LAW-LORD, a dull, iv. 178.
LAWRENCE, Chauncy, iv. 70.
LAWRENCE, Sir Soulden, ii. 296, n. 1.
LAWRENCE, Dr. Thomas,
account of him, ii. 296, n. 1;
President of the College of Physicians, ii. 297; iv. 70;
death, iv. 230, n. 2;
illness, iv. 143-4;
Johnson addresses to him an Ode, iv. 143, n. 2;
learnt physic from him, iii. 22;
long friendship with him, i. 82; iv. 143,144, n. 3
(for his letters to him, see JOHNSON, letters);
wife, death of his, iii. 418;
mentioned, i. 83, 326; iii. 93, 123, 436; iv. 355.
LAWRENCE, Miss, i. 82; iv. 143;
Johnson's letter to her, iv. 144, n. 3.
LAWYERS,
barristers have less law than of old, ii. 158;
'nobody reads now,' iv. 309;
chance of success, iii. 179;
Johnson's advice, iv. 309;
Sir W. Jones's, ib., n. 6;
Sir M. Hale's, iv. 310, n. 3;
bookish men, good company for, iii. 306;
Charles's, Prince, saying about them, ii. 214;
consultations on Sundays, ii. 376;
honesty: see under LAW;
knowledge of great lawyers varied, ii. 158;
multiplying words, iv. 74;
players, compared with, ii. 235;
plodding-blockheads, ii. 10;
soliciting employment, ii. 430;
work greatly mechanical, ii. 344.
LAXITY OF TALK. See JOHNSON, laxity.
LAY-PATRONS. See SCOTLAND, Church.
LAYER, Richard, i. 157.
LAZINESS, worse than the toothache, v. 231.
LEA, Rev. Samuel, i. 50.
LEANDRO ALBERTI, ii. 346; v. 310.
LEARNED GENTLEMAN, a, ii. 228.
LEARNING,
decay of it, i. 445; iv. 20; v. 80;
degrees of it, iv. 13;
difficulties, v. 316;
giving way to politics, i. 157, n. 2;
important in the common intercourse of life, i. 457;
'more generally diffused,' iv. 217;
trade, a, v. 59: see AUTHORS.
LEASOWES, v. 267, n. 1, 457.
LECK