The Life of Samuel Johnson - James Boswell [697]
lace 450, 774; see also Greek
‘lacerate, to’/‘laceration’ 750, 822
ladies of quality 715
laetus aliis, sapiens sibi 741, 746
Lancaster, House of 607
land 485–6, 494, 856
land tax in Scotland 496
landlords 217, 243, 312, 349, 444, 856; see also lodging-house landlords
languages 277, 303, 346, 351, 459, 479, 774, 877, 883
languor, following gaiety 631
lapidary inscriptions 480
Lapland and Laplanders 225, 350 n. a
Latin 29, 58–9, 240, 242, 309, 330, 375, 479, 764, 768; see also epitaphs; Index of Persons, Johnson I: Latin
‘Latiner’ 866 n. a
laughers 865
laughter 463, 706; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
laurel 106
law 287–8, 377, 485, 488, 495, 526 n. b, 531; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: law; IV: law arguments
law-lord, a dull 863
lawyers 188, 265, 344, 345, 374, 385, 418, 446, 462, 495, 620, 689, 805, 935
laxity of talk, see Index of Persons, Johnson I: talk
lay-patrons, see Church of Scotland; patrons
learning 235, 241, 526, 769, 773, 883
lectures 264, 814
‘leeward’ 160
legitimation 508
legs 545
leisure 377, 958
letters 154, 819, 996
levee 451; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
levellers 236
lexicographer 162
libels 526 and n. b, 552
liberty 209, 293, 328, 350, 394, 395, 548, 645, 730, 882; see also Index of Persons, Others: Wilkes, John
libraries 281 and n. b, 282, 297 n. a, 523, 568; see also British Museum
lies 189, 230, 378, 789, 857, 933; see also falsehood; truth life 162, 203, 273, 309, 312, 317, 319, 325–6, 363, 464, 545, 570, 590, 661, 683, 685, 720, 732, 851, 929, 931, 932, 945, 972, 986 n. a
Lilliput, Senate of, see debates in Parliament
Lincoln’s Inn, Society of 924 n. b
‘line’ 629
liquors 729, 808
Literary Club, the, see Club, the
literary fame or reputation 8, 297 n. c, 384, 453
literary history 20
literary impostors, see impostors, literary
literary journals 284
literary man, life of a 817
literary property, see copyright
literature 661, 687 n. a, 691, 703, 827, 898
little things 654
liveliness 511
living, cost of, in London 61
Llandaff, Bishopric of 828 n. b
local, attachment 312–13, 330, 409
lodging-house landlords and the law 223–4
longitude 12, 149, 164, 471
Lord 711, 715, 827, 865; see also peers
‘Lord’ 418 n. a
Lords, House of, see debates in Parliament; House of Lords
lovage 454
love 129, 203, 324, 510
low company/-life 936–7
Low Dutch, see Dutch
loyalty of the nation 459, 859 n. b
‘Luctus’ 459 and n. 495
luxury 350, 376, 546, 646, 676, 681; see also Index of Persons, Others: Mandeville, Bernard
Maccaronic verses 676 and n. 805
Maclean, the clan 404–5
madness 25, 41–2, 210–11, 533, 618 and n. b, 779–80, 878; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
magicians 729
magistrate 394–6, 542, 937 and n.1188
mahogany 808
Mahomet and Mahometans 267, 341, 873
majority 461 ‘make money, to’ 629
male succession, see succession
man 656, 660, 804, 814; see also mankind
Manege for Oxford 491
Manilla ransom 331 and n. 310
mankind 651; see also man; world
manners 309, 373, 545, 715
manor, a 390
manufacturers 360
marbles 445
‘marc de l’eau forte’ 474
marriage 203, 292, 300–301, 311, 317, 328, 341, 348, 438, 509, 511, 517, 520, 531, 727, 836, 934
martyrdom 394, 769
masquerades, in Scotland 369
Mass 314, 755
materialism 340
mathematics 218, 498; see also arithmetic
matter, non-existence of 248
meals 688
medicated baths 310
medicine 196; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: physic
melancholy 41, 235–6, 490, 500, 522, 566, 595, 618, 620, 723, 747, 751; see also Index of Persons, Johnson I: melancholy; Boswell II: hypochondria
melting-days 443
memory 626, 833; see also under Index of Persons, Johnson I
men 545, 833; see also mankind; women
mental diseases, see melancholy
merchants 217, 258 n. a, 765
merit 232–3, 860
metaphors 617, 980 n. a
‘metaphysical’ 399, 783, 867
metaphysics 44, 248
method 570
Methodists 241 and n. a, 323, 325, 326, 359, 434, 586, 945
microscopes 283–4
Middle Ages 655, 838, 859
middle classes 472, 478
middle state 132, 314, 347; see also Index of Persons,