Chapter 48

'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.

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),