OUR. 'It appears to me that I labour when I say a good thing,'
iii. 260; v. 77;
'No man loves labour for itself,' ii. 99.

LACE. 'Let us not be found, when our Master calls us, ripping the
lace off our waistcoats, but the spirit of contention from our souls
and tongues,' iii. 188, n. 4.

LACED COAT. 'One loves a plain coat, another loves a laced coat,'
ii. 192.

LACED WAISTCOAT. If everybody had laced waistcoats we should
have people working in laced waistcoats,' ii. 188.

_Laetus. 'Aliis laetus, sapiens sibi_,' iii. 405.

LANGUAGES. 'Languages are the pedigree of nations,' v. 225.

LATIN. 'He finds out the Latin by the meaning, rather than the
meaning by the Latin,' ii. 377.

LAWYERS. 'A bookish man should always have lawyers to converse
with,' iii. 306.

LAY. 'Lay your knife and your fork across your plate,' ii. 51.

LAY OUT. 'Sir, you cannot give me an instance of any man who is
permitted to lay out his own time contriving not to have tedious
hours,' ii. 194.

LEAN. 'Every heart must lean to somebody,' i. 515.

LEARNING. 'He had no more learning than what he could not help,'
iii. 386;
'I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning,' iii. 385;
'I never frighten young people with difficulties [as to learning],'
v. 316;
'Their learning is like bread in a besieged town; every man gets
a little, but no man gets a full meal,' ii. 363.

LEGS. 'Sir, it is no matter what you teach them first, any more than
what leg you shall put into your breeches first,' i. 452;
'A man who loves to fold his legs and have out his talk,' iii. 230;
'His two legs brought him to that,' v. 397.

LEISURE. 'If you are sick, you are sick of leisure,' iv. 352.

LEVELLERS. 'Your levellers wish to level _down_ as far as themselves;
but they cannot bear levelling _up_ to themselves,' i. 448.

LEXICOGRAPHER. 'These were the dreams of a poet doomed at last
to wake a lexicographer,' v. 47, n. 2.

LIAR. 'The greatest liar tells more truth than falsehood,' iii. 236.

LIBEL. 'Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ is a new kind of libel'
(Dr. Blagden), iv. 30, n. 2.

_Liber. 'Liber ut esse velim,_' &c., i. 83, n. 3.

LIBERTY. 'All _boys_ love liberty,' iii. 383;
'I am at liberty to walk into the Thames,' iii. 287;
'Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as religion in mine' (Wilkes),
iii. 224;
'No man was at liberty not to have candles in his windows,' iii. 383;
'People confound liberty of thinking with liberty of ta