Lenglet du Fresnoy, his “Méthode pour étudier l’Histoire,” iii. [221]; his peculiar character, ib.; history of his Méthode, [222], [224], and note, ib.; his literary history, [224]; a believer in alchymy, [225]; his political adventures, [227].
Le Kain, anecdote 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 Æsop’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.