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.
LIAR. 'The greatest liar tells more truth than falsehood,' iii. 236.
LIBEL. 'Boswell's _Life of Johnson_ is a new kind of libel'
(Dr. Blagden), iv. 30, n. 2.
_Liber. 'Liber ut esse velim,_' &c., i. 83, n. 3.
LIBERTY. 'All _boys_ love liberty,' iii. 383;
'I am at liberty to walk into the Thames,' iii. 287;
'Liberty is as ridiculous in his mouth as religion in mine' (Wilkes),
iii. 224;
'No man was at liberty not to have candles in his windows,' iii. 383;
'People confound liberty of thinking with liberty of talking,' ii. 249.
LIBRARIES, 'A robust genius born to grapple with whole libraries'
(Dr. Boswell), iii. 7.
LIE. 'Do the devils lie? No; for then Hell could not subsist'
(attributed to Sir Thomas Browne), iii. 293;
'He carries out one lie; we know not how many he brings
back,' iv. 320;
'If I accustom a servant to tell a lie for _me_, have I not reason
to apprehend that he will tell many lies for himself?' i. 436;
'Sir, If you don't lie, you are a rascal' (Colman), iv. 10;
'It is only a wandering lie,' iv. 49, n. 3;
'It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive,' v. 217;
'Never lie in your prayers' (Jeremy Taylor), iv.
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