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.