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  manners, made and repealed by, ii. 419;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. 
LECKY, W.E.H., History of England, ii. 130, n. 3. 
LE CLERK, i. 285. 
LECTURES, teaching by, ii. 7; iv. 92. 
LE DESPENCER, Lord, ii. 135, n. 2.
Ledger, The, iv. 22, n. 3. 
LEE, Alderman, iii. 68, n. 3, 78, 79, n. 2. 
LEE, Arthur, iii. 68, 76, 79, n. 2. 
LEE, John (Jack Lee),
  account of him, iii. 224, n. 1;
  at the bar of the House of Commons, iii.