of, i. 251.
LEO the Tenth, motive of his projected alliance against the Turks,
iii. 142.
L'ESTRANGE, Sir Roger, a strong party writer for Charles II., i.
159; his AEsop's Fables, 160.
LETTRES DE CACHET, invented by Father Joseph, confessor to
Richelieu, iii. 196.
LIBEL, singular means used to discover the author of a, ii. 314.
LIBELS on the Duke of Buckingham, ii. 365-370.
LIBERTY of the Press, restrictions on, ii. 216-227; its freedom did
not commence till 1694, 227; reflections on, 228.--See CENSORS.
LIBRARIES, i. 1; celebrated Egyptian and Roman, 1-3; public, in
Italy and England, 3, 4; in France and Germany, 6, 7; use of lights
in, 7; that of the Palatine Apollo destroyed by Pope Gregory
VIII., 50; in Bohemia, destroyed by the Jesuits, ib.; destruction
of, under Henry VIII. ib.; astronomical, in the ark of Noah, 303;
Irish, before the Flood, ib.; Adams's, ib.; modern opinion on their
utility, iii. 345.
LICENSERS of the Press.--See CENSORS.
LIGHTS, in public libraries, ordered in France by Charles V., i. 6;
objection to, 7.
LILLY, the astrologer, notices of, i. 280-283; his great work, 282;
an exquisite rogue, ib.
LIPOGRAMMATIC works, i. 293.
LIPSIUS, Justus, his opinions on toleration, iii. 253.
LITERARY Blunders, a pair of lexicographical, i. 305; instances of
curious, 320-327.
LITERARY Composition, ii. 85-92.
LITERARY Controversy, specimens of Luther's mode of managing, i.
308; Calvin's conduct of, 309; Beza imitates Calvin's style in, 310;
opinion of Bishop Bedell on, ib.; conduct of the fathers in, ib.;
grossness used in, 311; of the Nominalists and Realists, 312.
LITERARY Fashions, ii. 113; applause given to a work supposed to be
written by a celebrated man, ib.; notices of various, ib.; love all
the fashion, 114; Spenser's Faerie Queen became one, ib.; the
translation of Greek tragedies, a, ib.; of the seventeenth century,
115; of the time of Charles I., ib.; of Charles II., and of more
modern times, ib.
LITERARY Follies, instances of various in the fantastical
composition of verses, i. 293-307; strange researches made in
antediluvian times to be classed with, 301-303; anecdote of a
malicious one, ib.; various anecdotes concerning, 301-307.
LITERARY Forgeries, by Dr. Berkenhout, a letter from Peele to
Marlow, i. 380; by George Steeve
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