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. 224; on the duties of an advocate, ii. 48, n. 1. LEECHMAN, Principal William, account of him, v. 68, n. 4; Johnson calls on him, v. 370; writes on prayer, v. 68; answered by Cumming, v. 101. LEEDS, iii. 399, 400. LEEDS, Duke of, verses on his marriage, iv. 14. LEEDS, fifth Duke of, member of the Literary Club, i. 479; mentioned, ii. 34, n. 1. LEEK, in Staffordshire, i. 37; iii. 136. LE FLEMING, Bishop of Carlisle, i. 461, n. 4. LE FLEMING, Sir Michael, i. 461, n. 4. Leeward, i. 293. LEEWARD ISLANDS, ii. 455. LEGITIMATION, ii. 456. LEGS, putting them out in company, iii. 54. LEIBNITZ, controversy with Clarke, v. 287; on the derivation of languages, ii. 156; mentioned, i. 137. LEICESTER, iii. 4; iv. 402, n. 2. LEICESTER, Robert Dudley, Earl of, v. 438. LEICESTER, Mr. (Beauclerk's relation), iii. 420. LEISURE, for intellectual improvement, ii. 219; sickness from it, a disease to be dreaded, iv. 352. LELAND, Counsellor, iii. 318. LELAND, John, Itinerary, v. 445. LELAND, Dr. Thomas, History of Ireland, ii. 255; iii. 112; Hurd, attacked by, iv. 47, n. 2; Johnson's letters to him, i. 489, 518; ii. 2, n. 1; mentioned, iii. 310. LEMAN, Sir William, i. 174, n. 2. LEMAN, Lake, iv. 350, n. 1. LENDING MONEY, influence gained by it, ii. 167. LENNOX, Mrs., character by Mrs. Thrale, iv. 275, n. 2; lived to a great age, ib., n. 3; English version of Brumoy, publishes an, i. 345; Female Quixote, i. 367; Goldsmith advised to hiss her play, iv. 10; Johnson cites her in his Dictionary, iv. 4, n. 3; writes Proposals for publishing her Works, ii. 289; gives a supper in her honour, i. 255, n. 1; Shakespeare Illustrated, i. 255; superiority, her, iv. 275; Translation of Sully's Memoirs, i. 309. LEOD, v. 233. LEONI, ----, the singer, iii. 21, n. 2. Leonidas, v. 116. LE ROY, Julien, ii. 390, 391. LESLEY, John, History of Scotland, ii. 273. LESLIE, Charles, the nonjuror, iv. 286, n. 3. LESLIE, C. R., anecdote of the Countess of Corke, iv. 108, n. 4. LESLIE, Professor, of Aberdeen, v. 92. LESSEPS, M. de, v. 400, n. 4. Let ambition fire thy mind, iii. 197. Lethe, i. 228. Letter to Lord Chesterfield published separately, i. 261, n. 1. Letter to John Dunning, Esq., i. 297, n. 2. LETTER-WRITING, iv. 102. LETTERS, none received in the grave, iv. 413; studied endings, v. 238. See DATES. Letters from Italy, iii. 55. See SHARP, Samuel. Letters of an English Traveller, iv. 320, n. 4. Letters on the English Nation, v. 113. Letter to Dr. Samuel Johnson occasioned by his late political Publications, ii. 316. Letters to Lord Mansfield, ii. 229. See ANDREW STUART. Letters to the People of England, iv. 113, n. 1. Lettre de cachet, v. 206. Lettres Persanes, iii. 291, n. 1. LETTSOM, Dr., iii. 68. LEVEE, Johnson's. See under JOHNSON. LEVEES, Ministers', ii. 355. LEVELLERS, i. 448. LEVER, Sir Ashton, iv. 335. LEVETT, John, of Lichfield, i. 81; Johnson's letter to him, i. 160; unseated as member for Lichfield, i. 161, n. 1. LEVETT, Robert, account of him, i. 243; awkward and uncouth, iii. 22; brothers, his, iv. 143; brutality in manners, iii. 461; complains of the kitchen, ii. 215, n. 4; death, iv. 137, 142, 145; Desmoulins, hates, iii. 368; 'Doctor Levett,' ii. 214; Johnson's birth-day dinners, present at, iii. 157, n. 3; iv. 135, n. 1; companion, i. 232, n. 1; ii. 5, n. 1; iii. 220; iv. 145, 233, 249, n. 2; introduced Langton to, i. 47; iv. 145; letters to him: See under JOHNSON, letters; lines on him, iv. 137, 165, 274, 303, n. 2; questioned about, iii. 57; his recommendation to, i. 417; writings, makes out a list of, iii. 321; Johnson's Court, garret in, ii. 5; marriage, i. 370, 382; mentioned, i. 81, n. 1, 435; iii. 26, 93, 363, 373; iv. 92. LEWIS LE GROS, iii. 32, n. 5. LEWIS XIV, celebrated in many languages, i. 123; charges accumulated on him, ii. 341, n. 4; discontent and ingratitude, on, ii. 167, n. 3; King of Siam sends him ambassadors, iii. 336; La Valliere, Mlle. de, v. 49, n.