LADIES, attach a high degree of merit to good breeding, iv. 168.
though bred at home, have a manifest advantage over their travelled
brothers in liberal acquirements, 176.
virtues and faults more conspicuous in them than in the other sex,
177, 178.
“LADY OF THE LAKE,” a pageant at Kenelworth Castle, iii. 203.
LAGA, or LEAGA, the Saxon word for law, its extensive import, iii.
308.
LANGUAGE, ENGLISH, at what period most favourable to poetry, iii. 210.
LANGUAGES, time sometimes wasted in studying, iv. 147.
LAWS, how rendered necessary, iv. 108.
LEARNING, revival of, began first by poetry, iii. 206.
LEGISLATORS, ancient, why required to travel for instruction, iv. 95.
LEGISLATURE, their right to settle the government, unquestionable,
iii. 302.
LEICESTER, Earl of, his splendid monument in the great church of
Warwick, iii. 168.
Strictures on his conduct, 176.
LETTERS, the cultivation of, its own reward, iii. 130.
LIBERAL ARTS, of late growth in England, iv. 127.
study of them less important than other branches of education, 192.
LIBERTY, a right understanding of its principles necessary to the
security of the British government, iii. 295.
religious, made way for the entertainment of civil, in all its
branches, iv. 76.
LIFE-GUARD, instituted by Henry VII. iv. 25.
LIVY, his dialogues, if preserved, would have suffered by comparison
with those of Cicero, iii. 41.
LOCKE, Mr. Lord Shaftesbury’s opinion of him as a philosopher, iv. 88.
his notion of education, opposed to that of his lordship, 136, 138.
denies that its objects can be attained by foreign travel, 143.
his remarks on England, 151.
on national prejudices, 152, 154.
on evil habits, 156.
on bashfulness in youth, 161.
on knowledge of the world, 170.
on the means of instilling it into the minds of youth, 180.
his objections to the study of the fine arts, 191, 193.
of the fine arts, 191, 193.
Declares against European travels, 200.
his remarks on the universities, 204.
on clergy tutors, 217.
Presage of brighter days for the universities, 224.
LOLLARDISM, spreading in the reign of Henry VII. iv. 27.
LONDON, a fit scene for seeing the world, iv. 190.
LUCAN, his magic scenes excelled by those of Apuleius, iv. 283, 284.
LUCIAN, created a new species of dialogue, iii. 28.
its nature defined, 30, 32.
his remark on the social use of the table, 182.