Chapter L

=Labour=, a physician, 227, 37;
and health, 153, 36;
and rest, 478, 22;
as a teacher, 220, 22;
associated with pleasure, 125, 52;
but not soul, saleable, 568, 23;
captains of, to be honoured, 273, 39;
clamorous at gate of morning, 43, 44;
contrasted with luck, 257, 37;
cultivated, effect, 51, 6;
daughter of pain, 485, 5;
division of, division of men, 204, 38;
employed or unemployed, 544, 12;
endurable only in youth, 74, 21;
everlasting law of, 405, 49;
evil of, not regarding, 175, 11;
for other men, 167, 35;
habit of, lost, man lost, 253, 27;
hard, virtue of, 475, 23;
honest, face of, 159, 29;
how made happy, 205, 13;
how made light, 12, 65;
law of, 441, 27;
mostly skilless, 431, 31;
no disgrace, 84, 29;
no living without, 174, 20;
omnipotence and indispensability of, 314, 41;
prescribed by Christianity, 241, 7;
problem, the real, 565, 48;
relieving power of, 235, 24;
results of rising by, 387, 13;
sayings about, 228, 23, 24;
teachings of, 62, 13;
the end of, 425, 12;
to be loved, 255, 37;
to organise work for the wise, 547, 20;
vain, 96, 24;
virtue in, 17, 23;
we delight in, 437, 42;
when unavailing, 59, 5

=Labourer=, Jesus on rights of, 437, 43;
the true, and his hire, 458, 47

=Labours=, lingering, 129, 36;
past, recollection of, 213, 61

=Ladder=, how to climb, 152, 51; 532, 12; 567, 2;
mounting the, effect of, 565, 10

=Ladders= to heaven, 50, 26

=Ladies=, Johnson's liking for, 165, 7;
presence of at the play, 64, 2;
young, affections of, 415, 35

=Lady=, characteristic of, 6, 27;
every, queen for life, 276, 32;
mark of, 49, 4

=Ladyism=, fine, 560, 32

=Lairds=, Burns' advice to the, 326, 22

=Laissez-faire=, effect of, on masses, 123, 33

=Lamb=, a pet, 16, 33;
shorn, God's care for, 66, 42

=Lambs=, poor harmless, 550, 28

=Lame=, to be waited for, 179, 20

=Lamenting=, misery of always, 490, 4;
weakness of, 539, 15

=Land=, a, how God punishes, 543, 33;
a, where there is no singing, 531, 12;
at the disposal of fortune, 166, 10;
buying, 41, 11;
possession of, sole right to, 312, 26;
possessors of, duty of, 353, 12;
the, our mother, Carlyle on, 437, 47;
the owners of, 437, 48;
the, the proprietors of, 358, 14;
to hastening ills a prey, 181, 40;
where the cypress and myrtle, 220, 8

=Landowner=, honest, a servant, 304, 13

=Landscape=, charms of, 89, 44;
point of astonishment in, 186, 36;
property in a, 311, 34

=Language=, English, 82, 47;
merit in, 104, 21;
one, enough for a woman, 334, 27;
only symbolical, 527, 26;
secret of, 452, 42;
the finest, 427, 41;
unkind, evil of, 507, 41

=Languages=, a feast of, 479, 8;
foreign, ignorance of, 532, 18

=Lapse=, effect of one, 334, 13

=Larks= caught if heavens fall, 34, 13

=Lasses=, brittle ware, 124, 2;
noblest work of Nature, 23, 25

=Last day=, beginning and height of, 568, 21;
day to every man, 60, 35

=Laugh=, a good, 6, 45;
who knows not how to, 345, 15

=Laughing=, at _versus_ grinning at, 86, 3;
and weeping, cousins german, 229, 6;
disarming, 209, 34;
not subject to mode, 275, 11

=Laughs=, he who, not a bad man, 151, 30

=Laughter=, as a sign of worth, 305, 6; compared
with sorrow, 400, 1; effect of, 180, 39;
excessive, a sign of sadness, 306, 9;
ill-timed, 119, 35;
loud, vulgarity of, 253, 34;
matter for, now, 390, 9;
men can bear, 273, 38;
of the cottage and court contrasted, 105, 54;
often deceptive, 38, 1;
our sincerest, 525, 29;
riotous, Holmes on, 451, 45;
significance of, 162, 7; 441, 1;
two kinds, to be distinguished, 528, 27;
unextinguished, 507, 10;
unmannerly, 114, 42;
virtue in, 94, 56;
with reason, 180, 40

=Law=, a shield to tyranny, 180, 26;
and equity, distinct, 84, 17, 18;
asleep at times, 71, 53;
combined with justice, 4, 5;
contrasted with necessity, 121, 57;
Cicero's definition of, 87, 7;
evasion invented with, 103, 13;
extreme, wrong, 215, 25;
felt as a restraint, 205, 24;
foul chimneys of, hard to sweep clean, 67, 36;
function of, 53, 37; going to, 295, 42;
good, beginning and end of, 417, 19;
ignorance of, no excuse, 178, 19;
impeded by severity, 453, 19;
love in, 184, 24;
must be reason, 315, 9;
no, no sin, 548, 43;
no, without a hole in it, 85, 33;
not to be a scarecrow, 527, 1;
obedience to, when a hardship, 280, 24;
of one's nature, sacredness of, 302, 42;
one certainty in, 184, 15;
oppression by, 344, 51;
pleadings in, 464, 43;
possession by, 213, 6;
requisite in a, 237, 12, 17;
rule of nature, 94, 25;
sacred, 215, 11;
sanctioned by consent, 46, 46;
sayings about, 244, 42-46; 438, 12-29;
seat of, 452, 38;
source of, 125, 44;
stronger than man, 113, 1;
subtlety in, condemned, 300, 15;
teaching of, 220, 5;
the foundation of, 295, 33;
the life of, 369, 36;
to yield to circumstance and custom, 491, 18;
virtue of, 110, 38;
voice of, 452, 38;
who has to execute, 369, 27;
with public morals corrupt, 240, 28

=Lawful= and honourable, 159, 35

=Lawgiver=, man's absolute, 356, 10;
the spirit of, 454, 36

=Laws=, good and bad, defined, 6, 46;
and manners, 267, 36-38, 43;
authors of, 238, 32;
during war, 391, 48;
good, from bad manners, 97, 14; 129, 42;
God's and lawyers' connection with, 205, 15;
good, origin of, 237, 14;
good, out of bad manners, 31, 15;
how rendered binding and stable, 227, 24;
human, copies, 338, 19;
in a corrupted state, 48, 28;
just, to the good, 215, 39;
many, a bad sign, 226, 16;
many, evil of, 210, 42;
ministers and interpreters of, 237, 20;
no, for the just, 117, 43;
oppression of, 19, 11;
organic, Ruskin on, 336, 24;
path of, and power of, 326, 11;
permanence of, 85, 26;
power of, 514, 47;
powerlessness of, to kill or cure, 162, 30;
proper tendency of, 457, 6;
relation of, to penalties, 443, 17;
Ruskin's advice as to reform of, 28, 40;
strict, value of, 403, 36;
the object of, 237, 13; the purpose of, 193, 7;
too severe, worthless, 222, 33;
when useless and when broken, 544, 24;
without morals, 365, 42

=Lawsuit=, agreement better than, 28, 28

=Lawsuits=, issue of, protracted, 331, 7;
why avoid, 118, 13

=Lawyer=, Brougham's definition of, 438, 30;
profession of, 107, 11

=Lawyer's=, business, 205, 15;
fee, the cheapest, 208, 49

=Lawyers=, by whom enriched, 108, 40;
experience of, 424, 8

=Laziness= in individual and in mass, 7, 65

=Lazy= man, the, 1, 21

=Leader=, should know the way, 86, 5

=Leaf=, the two lobes of, 302, 33

=Leal=, in the land o' the, 478, 10

=Learned=, in his infidelities, 504, 8;
man, a truly, 413, 43;
man, Aquinas' definition of, 158, 27;
man, rich, 159, 14;
men, Goethe on, 188, 6;
men, more numerous than wise, 526, 9;
men not always liberal, 443, 48;
soon, learned long, 38, 16;
the business of, as compared with the ignorant, 193, 30

=Learner=, advice to, 318, 16;
his gratitude, 532, 17

=Learning=, a little, dangerous, 8, 44;
a little, hard to gain, 208, 21;
according to quality of man, 276, 11;
and play, 288, 28;
by observation and experience, 413, 37;
by seeking and blundering, 34, 14;
chief part of, 383, 15;
doting on scraps of, 398, 10;
earthly, end of, 540, 3;
ever, and never knowing, 89, 45;
evil of its apparent facility, 222, 24;
from living, 251, 48;
great school for, 431, 35;
has its value, 229, 18;
how to advance, 187, 40;
inferior to creating, 200, 22;
limitation of, 79, 18;
living by, 308, 20;
loving, 175, 16;
man who does not use his, 151, 32;
matter of quality, 450, 26;
men of great, generosity of, 276, 4;
men of, like ears of corn, 198, 9;
mere, 148, 45;
much, a weariness, 285, 14;
much, much ignorance, 285, 15;
no, without labour, 177, 21;
not wisdom, 304, 20;
of antiquity, venerable, 225, 10;
only to forget, 118, 52;
philosophy as regulating regard for, 347, 24;
possible, every day, 318, 10;
rule in, 237, 41;
rule of, 141, 37;
sayings about, 525, 12-15;
Solon on his, 121, 49;
the condition of, 303, 15;
the source of all, 138, 9;
to be used like a watch, 530, 39;
to last with life, 410, 15;
vanity of fortifying one's self with, 492, 9;
without commonsense, 208, 24;
without discretion, 559, 28;
without morals, 364, 32;
without nature like a maimed man, 292, 35;
without sense, 148, 45;
worth anything, how to acquire, 305, 44

=Leaven=, power of a little, 8, 45

=Legality=, risk of, 226, 2

=Legend=, wedded to history and fancy, 519, 12

=Legislation=, ancient, wisdom of, 117, 17;
and administration, mistake about, 198, 17;
foolish, a rope of sand, 108, 37

=Legislator=, aim of the, 415, 47;
should be moderate, 213, 43

=Leibnitz's= optimism, Voltaire's version of, 498, 33

=Leisure=, and solitude, Scipio Africanus on his, 168, 1;
dependent on business, 443, 27;
value of, 211, 4;
without literature, 336, 48

=Lending=, caution against, 294, 36;
rule of, 141, 37

=Leniency= at times a crime, 107, 8

=Lenity=, evil effect of too much, 535, 4

=Leonidas= at Thermopylæ, 397, 12

=Leopard=, spots of, not seen, 184, 16

=Lesson=, first, to be learned, 444, 2;
the best, for many, 417, 49

=Lethe=, a stream of, in every breath, 558, 25

=Letter=, a, does not blush, 251, 1;
and spirit, opposite effects of, 250, 33;
long, reason for a, 210, 46;
what we look for in a, 187, 41

=Letters=, as memorials, 32, 41;
devotion to, a regret, 117, 26;
mirror of a man's breast, 184, 18;
not to be carelessly written, 438, 47;
qualities, good and bad, in, 402, 46;
style of, 456, 2;
the invention of, 206, 18;
the love of, 440, 1

=Levellers=, their aim, 568, 25;
their failure, 483, 1;
two, 219, 10

=Lever=, power of, Archimedes on, 169, 15

=Levers= that move men, 468, 36

=Levity=, unpardonable, 509, 8

=Liar=, a swearer, 8, 9;
and his oaths, 505, 30;
needs good memory, 8, 10

=Liars=, how to be treated, 71, 44;
no legislation for, 473; 13;
to have good memories, 277, 36

=Libel=, a, in a frown, 47, 51

=Liberal=, the, sayings about, 438, 45, 46

=Liberalism=, modern, the follies of, 429, 4

=Liberality=, defined, 226, 3;
grounds of, to be weighed, 28, 11

=Liberties=, from the devil, 245, 26;
the basis of all, 153, 35

=Liberty=, a form of true, 35, 46;
and justice, effect of separating, 547, 29;
as desired by Milton, 123, 19;
child of the north, 56, 52;
civil, defined, 245, 12;
civil, utmost bound of, 481, 47;
crowing about, by slaves, 315, 17;
dearer than country, 343, 24;
destroyed by gifts, 53, 6;
effect of, on man, 396, 3;
free and at her ease, 226, 5;
growth of tree of, 222, 26;
headstrong, 153, 30;
how to forfeit, 27, 60;
how to preserve, 68, 37;
in harmony with law, 435, 1;
in nations, 226, 4;
in relation to taxation, 185, 41;
inspiring power of, 112, 46;
lean, and fat slavery, 235, 36;
limit of, 266, 39;
Mme. Roland at statue of, 321, 12;
no such thing as, 474, 30;
of ancient date, 226, 6;
opening of, 27, 10;
passion for, 235, 10;
political, where only found, 352, 12;
possibility of, 440, 37;
safeguard of, 77, 12;
spirit of, Burke's deference to, 288, 20;
the first to strive for, 324, 18;
the only valuable, 446, 8;
the true, of a man, 458, 49;
tree of, how it grows, 458, 26;
true and false, 500, 16;
defined, 471, 13;
turbulent, versus quiet slavery, 261, 24;
under a pious king, 100, 34;
value of, 436, 3;
when once lost, 526, 1;
without deserving it, 454, 13

=Libraries=, large, by whom not needed, 451, 33

=Library=, a witness against its owner, 450, 22;
browsing in, 167, 48;
circulating, 3, 12;
enough, 271, 36;
luxury of revelling in, 148, 13

=Licence=, an enemy to liberty, 245, 22

=Licentiousness=, after reformation, 6, 67

=Lie=, a double-distilled, 35, 28;
a flattering, contrasted with a bitter truth, 529, 14;
a half true, 8, 16, 29;
a, like a snowball, 8, 14;
a, sure to be unmasked, 27, 49;
a, to be crushed, 8, 28;
a, uncalled for, 53, 18;
deformity of, 315, 42;
essence of, 425, 30;
inexcusable, 314, 4;
one, in the heart, evil of, 28, 56;
task involved in telling, 152, 26;
what it wants, 457, 17

=Lies=, abhorrent to nature, 290, 20;
all, will be dishonoured some day, 302, 45;
and the belief of them, 473, 15;
destroyer of, our gratitude to, 206, 15;
doomed to vanish, 506, 10;
establishing one's self on, 475, 22;
great, great as great truths, 133, 47;
how to overcome, 240, 16;
man born enemy of, 262, 17;
respect implied in telling, of one, 533, 4;
scorned by the upright, 46, 32;
self-productive, 332, 46, 47;
that ruin humanity, Ruskin on, 206, 15;
tolerance of, effect of, 548, 9;
white, lead to black, 550, 33

=Life=, a bark against the tide, 242, 14;
a battle and a march, 263, 10;
a becoming, 462, 14;
a blessed, 470, 3;
a blossoming and a withering, 62, 16;
a chamber being frescoed with colours, 339, 39;
a conscious half, impossible, 303, 16;
a constant want, 163, 23;
a faint link between us and our hereafter, 29, 62;
a galling load, 321, 15;
a good, time enough for, 32, 30;
a greeting and a parting, 265, 36;
a happy and an unhappy, equalised, 390, 21;
a heroic, 434, 37;
a higher, how to earn, 522, 25;
a law of, 443, 9;
as led, a riddle, 538, 20;
a little gleam of time, 332, 48;
a loathed, compared with death, 461, 45;
a long sigh, 320, 15;
a long, the secret of, 568, 1;
a merry, how to live, 556, 31;
a mistake about, 409, 19;
a mystery, 547, 26;
a new, beginning of, 526, 3;
a new, with every budding bosom, 109, 32;
a, not worth living, 166, 19;
a peaceful, how to ensure, 492, 42;
a progress, 266, 41; a pure and true, how to attain, 384, 38;
a quiet, specific for, 275, 34;
a reality, and all one has, 481, 13;
a really long, 413, 38;
a rule in, 212, 7; 311, 2;
a satisfied, 380, 61;
a school, 310, 36;
a sign of, 183, 31;
a simple, benefit of, 286, 27;
a state of endurance, 163, 24;
a steady self-control, 266, 45;
a stern reality, 266, 46;
a short, advantage of, 453, 25;
a useless, 23, 45;
a voyage under sealed orders, 284, 19;
a well-written, rare, 24, 55;
a wise, 516, 53;
according to nature or opinion, 389, 46;
ascent of green mountain of, 266, 3;
advancing in, 144, 48;
aim of, 415, 46;
all a cheat, 543, 41;
all, as death, 399, 46;
always a hope, 527, 22;
amid doubt, 538, 2;
among men, 16, 53;
among men, breaking or hardening, 177, 4;
an abortive, Young on the course of, 22, 15;
an ever-vanishing present, 266, 44;
an obscure, 311, 4;
and art, difference of, 84, 41;
and death, 464, 4;
and death, a contrast, 329, 32;
and death according to law, 94, 42;
and death, not complete, 488, 31;
and time, 485, 11;
apart from world, 144, 30;
as a study, interesting, 350, 6;
at all, a miracle, 403, 3;
at beginning and end, 467, 7;
at different ages, 22, 16;
awful and wonderful, 55, 47;
bartered away, 522, 30;
based on time, 339, 40;
best and safest course of, 449, 37;
between duty and desire, 439, 18;
bodying forth of the invisible, 266, 11;
Bolingbroke on, 476, 32;
book of, interpreter of, 538, 4;
brevity of, 262, 32;
brighter the longer, 249, 35;
Burns' apostrophe to, 335, 53;
by medical prescription, 363, 42;
Calderon on, 362, 33;
charms of, that we never knew, 320, 14;
cheap, and bread dear, 320, 30;
Christian, Pascal on, 241, 21;
compared with hope, 228, 14;
complaints of, unjust, 545, 4;
complete from the first, 26, 57;
condensing lesson of, in pointed sentence, 448, 39;
condition of art of, 395, 38;
corner-stone of body, 421, 36;
daily, harvest of, 458, 45;
daily, instructiveness of, 52, 33;
defined, 434, 40; 536, 26, 27;
dependent on "No," 300, 37;
dependent upon death, 403, 14;
described, 537, 1;
detachment from, gradual, 265, 6;
drama of, spectators of, 191, 39;
dreary, its cause, 537, 37;
each man's, dark to him, 404, 53;
elaborate preparation for, folly of, 494, 20;
epitome of many a man's, 292, 46;
essential furniture of, whence imported, 231, 51;
elements of a complete, 221, 9;
evanescence of, 537, 25;
every condition in, value of, 212, 15;
every period, its prejudices and temptations, 93, 44, 45;
every time of, has its care and burden, 327, 41;
everywhere romantic, 90, 55; experience of, Burns', 554, 44;
farewell of a Greek to, 210, 12;
fateful stages in, 147, 12;
first lesson of, 428, 24, 25;
first, lived well, 413, 45;
folly of wasting, 154, 16;
fondness and carelessness of, 475, 41;
for action, 3, 51;
for a single day, 363, 14;
fraction of, how to increase, 429, 23;
fresh only from the soul, 84, 42;
full of stumbling-blocks, 64, 21;
gift and ministry of, contrasted, 493, 16;
glorious, crowded hour of, 400, 24;
God's highest gift, 434, 40;
golden moments in, lost, 430, 34;
great art of, 493, 24;
great moments of, but moments, 431, 29;
greatest ornament of an illustrious, 432, 33;
greed of, 516, 22;
half wasted, 457, 11;
hampered by itself, 3, 8;
high, people in, 187, 26;
highest maxims of, to be respected, 333, 17;
his, was gentle, 157, 5; how man spends, 265, 40;
here only once, 264, 36;
how rendered miserable, 227, 13;
how rounded off, 522, 18;
how ruled, 201, 48; how shaped, 548, 21;
how to achieve, 567, 8, 9;
how to extend, 14, 7;
how to husband and not waste, 526, 37;
how to know, 493, 35;
how to make sweet, 173, 17;
how to quit, 179, 32;
how to take a, 567, 30;
how to write a worthy, 8, 30;
how we take, main point, 125, 14;
ignorance of, 441, 4;
in, no present, 187, 45;
in the morning of youth, 321, 14;
in the present, a secret, 20, 54;
in the straitest circumstances, if wise and loyal-hearted, 160, 53;
in the world, and beyond, 524, 5;
inevitable condition of, 562, 43;
inner genial, effect of kindling, 68, 3;
instinct to protect and cherish, 434, 40;
its autumn and spring, 528, 15;
its healthfulness, 460, 6;
its joys and sorrows, Browning on, 141, 41;
known to few, 79, 17;
laughing at and grinning at, 203, 8;
learning from, 448, 39;
length of, effect of, 439, 32, 33;
like travelling, 288, 12;
long, desire of, 91, 51;
long, together, suggestiveness of, 496, 24;
longer than misfortune, 32, 34;
longest, shortness of, 439, 36;
loom of, and patterns it weaves, 439, 40;
lost in getting a living, 473, 28;
lost, irretrievable, 80, 6;
lottery of, 418, 33;
made strait on purpose, 404, 39;
made up of deception and art, 45, 56;
main thing regarding, 310, 31;
man's, a kind of beast-godhood, 535, 35;
memory of a well-spent, 32, 32;
mode of, seldom our own choosing, 467, 2;
moments of, fatal or fated, 403, 25;
more significant than words, 85, 21;
more than breathing, 161, 12;
more than meat, 438, 48;
more than meat and clothing, 409, 25;
mostly from hand to mouth, 105, 11;
never stainless, 302, 33;
no dream, 338, 25;
no fraction of, to be sold, 484, 3;
no longer on old lines, 230, 17;
no pastime, 526, 26;
no, without perplexity, 395, 35;
not to be bartered, 272, 25;
not judged, before death, 214, 9;
not to be trifled with, 57, 5;
nobility of, 445, 2;
noble, eternal in its action, 93, 3;
nothing that has, perfect, 316, 42;
obscure, not therefore worthless, 289, 26;
of man, collective, 205, 19;
of poor and rich, small difference between, 448, 28;
on moderate means, 182, 2;
one's own, sacred, 75, 19;
only a hope, 317, 14;
ordained law of, 206, 22;
our, a thousand-stringed harp, 338, 23;
our chief want in, 337, 25;
our, control over, limited, 340, 22;
our first ideas of, 338, 2;
our, a mutual hostility, 338, 26;
our mode of, characterised, 339, 9;
our, not what it might be, 338, 27, 28;
our true, 64, 16;
our waste of, 529, 39;
our whole daily, of spirit birth, 395, 24;
out of the ruins of life, 53, 24;
outward details of, insignificance of, 534, 6;
past, and help that lies in it, 230, 31;
pathos and sublime of, 494, 18;
peaceable, commended, 173, 8;
perfect, attribute of, 345, 49;
perfected in death, 220, 19;
postponing, 364, 34; power of fortune over, 163, 25;
primitive and frontier, advantage of, 208, 40;
problem of, 449, 29;
prospective, 520, 39;
purpose of, 521, 26;
query regarding purpose of, 520, 17;
quiet continuity of, 366, 21;
ragged line of, 439, 18;
reality of, without fancy, 442, 7;
resignation of, motive for, 480, 15;
rising on life, 509, 15;
river of, and its ferries, 524, 23;
river of, how to drink out of, 566, 23;
rule of, 182, 27; 237, 3; 519, 14;
ruled by fortune, 516, 29;
saved, by losing it, 554, 42;
sacrificed to reasoning about it, 550, 24;
sayings about, 54, 12-18; 517, 1, 2;
scorn of, revered, 209, 50;
secrets of, how revealed, 453, 4;
servile to skyey influences, 172, 35;
severe condition of knowing, 505, 9;
shadow-hunting or shadow-hunted, 550, 4;
Shakespearean rules of, 253, 40;
significance of, 453, 34;
signs of, 184, 40;
simple, happiness of, 26, 10;
simplicity of, gain in, 189, 20;
sincere, required, 100, 13;
sojourn in an inn, 98, 15;
source of its value, 371, 2;
sporting with, 551, 33;
state of, alone suitable for a man, 414, 10;
still beautiful, 320, 31;
struggle of, question of, 191, 40;
stuff to try soul's strength, 165, 34;
subordinate to something higher, 265, 25;
sunshine of, 456, 24;
tediousness of, 407, 34;
text and commentary, 428, 18;
that is merely breathing, 153, 8;
that
we praise, 43, 22;
the chief condition of, 224, 30;
the dearer, the longer, 443, 23;
the course of, destructive, 569, 24;
the cup of, to be drunk, 422, 24;
the dark spot in, 11, 39;
the end of a man's, 52, 32;
the end of, Sophocles on, 336, 53;
the essence of, 200, 22;
the first problem in, 428, 32;
the fluctuations of, 94, 42;
the fountain of, 217, 34;
the fruition of, 429, 31;
the fullest, 528, 25;
the gate and way to, 403, 23;
the great felicity in, 431, 20;
the happiest, 83, 45;
the interpreter of, 334, 45;
the lot of, 94, 42;
the longest half of, 251, 50;
the meaning of, 338, 34;
the noblest, 144, 32;
the observation of, 448, 39;
the one meaning of, 256, 38;
the only sign of, 533, 33;
the only wealth, 474, 44;
the price of, life, 179, 28;
the stuff of, 487, 7;
the sure way to, 215, 28;
the true, of man, 458, 51;
the true question in, 95, 11;
the use of, 537, 20;
the way of, its secrets, 64, 21;
the web of, 462, 2;
the, which renews a man, 439, 8;
things essential to, 468, 26;
three epochs in, 467, 8;
time's fool, 33, 29;
to be believed before book, 165, 20;
to be enjoyed as it passes, 503, 4;
to be in the whole, 18, 51;
to be still prayed for, 300, 5;
to genius, 492, 37;
to happy and unhappy, 433, 16;
to miserable and to happy, 321, 13, 15;
transitions of, 517, 24;
tree of, ever green, 132, 42;
true beginning of, 205, 30;
true enjoyment of, 197, 14;
true, how to live a, 503, 7;
time of, to be wise, 179, 15;
two ways out of, 23, 40;
uncertainty in, source of, 205, 48;
under a poor roof, 117, 10;
up and down tendencies of, 186, 37;
use we may make of, 522, 37;
waste of, 365, 26;
wasted, 269, 20;
waves of, and strand of death, 452, 15;
way of, 516, 26;
way of, in sere yellow leaf, 288, 25;
web of, heaven-woven, 79, 13;
what has, power of, 531, 41;
what it consists of, 525, 24;
what makes, poor, 204, 27;
what survives wreck of, 191, 31;
while digestion lasts, 550, 14;
who would love, 148, 52;
wilderness of, springs in, 191, 26;
wisdom of, 244, 7; 462, 27;
with art and deception, 566, 24;
with its enmities, to be faced, 60, 31;
with some, like a sleigh-drive, 558, 45;
without a purpose, 516, 21;
without God, 559, 22;
without hope, 335, 17;
without labour, 300, 4;
without learning, 516, 20;
without love, 249, 28;
without self-denial, 133, 39;
without superior, inferior, or equal, 493, 10;
without use to others, 536, 34;
without women, 33, 9; 538, 32;
woven of old and new, 10, 3;
woven of wind, 316, 50;
wrecked, cause of, 385, 35

=Life's=, blessings, how taught to value, 458, 3;
end, 255, 3;
rewards, 255, 5;
wealth, 255, 5;
young day, love of, 168, 48

=Light=, a curtain, 439, 10;
a ray of, when seen, 450, 36;
and fire, 197, 18;
and shadow, 560, 14;
by which we see, 439, 9;
by whom shunned, 311, 37;
dry, 439, 14;
dry, best, 73, 26;
for the million, 508, 1;
in a clear breast, 146, 32;
in darkness, 439, 13;
in nature and man, 417, 21;
indispensability of, 105, 51;
intense, beautifying effect of, 473, 35;
loving, hating, 146, 5, 6;
new, burst of a, to the unprepared heart, 419, 19;
new, distrusted, 545, 44;
new, dread of, 89, 54;
new, elevating power of, 89, 54;
new, spiritual, effect on soul of, 70, 8;
no, without eyes, 559, 32;
our boast of, 522, 31;
perfect, how to attain, 439, 12;
perfect, too dazzling, 346, 1;
self-evident, 330, 11;
shadow of God, 502, 8;
sovereign in the physical world, 246, 1;
spiritual, and its source, 116, 33;
spiritual, never entirely extinguishable, 303, 8;
the true, defined, 413, 32;
too much, effect of, 548, 48;
which we reject, 439, 15

=Light=, and heavy, different fortunes of, 235, 27;
things compared, 288, 23

=Light-minded= men, improvident, 244, 32

=Lightning=, and thunder, God's harbingers, 249, 30;
as an alternative, 249, 22;
heaven's (in a man), not to be caressed, 332, 7;
in the collied night, 32, 40;
spiritual, 439, 15, 16;
to godlike and godless men, 128, 18

=Lights=, broken, and shapes, 243, 8

=Like=, not look upon his, again, 149, 21;
to like, 9, 30; 19, 39; 39, 28; 124, 8; 489, 20

=Like-minded= and of unlike-minded, the fortunes of, 345, 7

=Likeness=, family, 101, 35;
in nature more than difference, 75, 3

=Liking=, power of, 498, 53

=Likings=, a man's, a test of him, 411, 39;
significance of our, 539, 32

=Lilies=, the, consider, 46, 50

=Limbs=, too large, a weakness, 202, 39

=Limit=, the real definition of a thing, 21, 35;
to progress, 87, 26

=Limits=, every man has, 304, 17

=Line=, a straight, in morals, 20, 61;
crooked and straight, 205, 8

=Linen=, dirty, to be washed at home, 179, 27

=Link=, importance of a, 332, 49

=Linnæus=, the sexual system of, 517, 3

=Linnet's= song, feeling that inspires, 553, 3

=Lion=, not asleep, though silent, 52, 28;
or sheep, as commander, 200, 28

=Lion's= share, 78, 8

Lions with stag for leader, 112, 35

=Lips=, that give a right answer, 92, 26;
to be guarded as palace doors, 131, 12

=Listener=, a good, rare, 208, 22;
a good, worth listening to, 89, 7

=Listening=, at keyhole, 85, 23;
the faculty of, 426, 47;
to some more pleasant than talking, 533, 14

=Literary=, ages, taste of all, 477, 21;
career, a thorny path, 224, 25;
composition to be kept nine years, 244, 9;
man, the true, 458, 52;
men of the present, 187, 47;
work, characteristic of, 530, 9

=Literature=, a discovery to be made in, 469, 40;
a noble profession, 168, 8;
a silent, 262, 24;
a talent for, a snare, 409, 42;
a, when classical, 302, 46;
and humanity, 523, 37;
compared with the conversation of a grandly simple soul, 47, 48;
decline of, as a sign, 422, 45;
done for money, Ruskin on, 540, 40;
false, 564, 1;
first lesson of, 428, 25;
glorious doom of, 206, 16;
highest problem of, 435, 8;
how concocted, 185, 17;
its, test of a nation, 541, 20;
life in, 206, 23;
modern, _minus_ its metaphysics, 175, 36;
modern, temporary nature of, 284, 25;
on oatmeal, 523, 21;
our esteem for, 338, 16;
proper task of, 449, 44;
sentimental, inferiority of, 387, 4;
what one wants in, 207, 2

=Litigant= unlike the goose, 439, 21

=Litigation=, misery of long, 117, 21

=Little=, beings, aspirations of, 91, 40;
managing a, merit in, 203, 26;
minds, and the faith of great ones, 99, 57;
the infinitely, pride of, 436, 33;
the, to be done well, 72, 15;
things, power of, 317, 37;
things, running after, 483, 15;
treatment of, a spiritual sign, 54, 11;
who cannot live upon, 387, 34

=Littleness=, as wonderful as vastness, 539, 27

=Live=, happily, how men 190, 31;
knowing how to, enough, 20, 30;
let us, to-day, 158, 18;
to, how, alone, 472, 6;
to, to dream, 237, 5

=Lived=, what has, immortality of, 508, 30

=Livelihood=, struggle for mere, debasing, 179, 17

=Lives=, English, worth reading, 467, 29;
lost in change of purpose, 269, 42;
of the best, 439, 27;
our, how we spend, 520, 34;
reading, but not leading, 565, 12;
the finest, 427, 42;
wrecked, cause of, 207, 5

=Lives=, one who, for others, 551, 6;
one who, for self, 551, 6

=Living=, a thing deferred, 513, 24;
above one's means, 441, 21;
after one's own opinion or the world's, 201, 24;
alone, no reason to fear, 555, 25;
and dead, now to treat, 158, 22;
and dead, the partition between, 533, 41;
and living dishonoured, 200, 13;
and out-living, 200, 12;
and thinking, contrasted, 40, 12;
art of, like every other, 416, 21;
as angels, 48, 40;
being, mistake in professed study of, 532, 38;
cheap, 559, 1;
corked up for ever, 478, 17;
defined, 516, 44, 45;
earning a, without living, 441, 5;
for eternity, hard, 161, 28;
for others contrasted with living for self, 151, 35;
for self or for others, 149, 43;
greatly, test of, 333, 15;
happily, defined, 494, 6;
how to get a, 567, 7;
long, sorrow in, 229, 35;
man, test of a, 395, 8;
mere, good, 161, 22;
once, never lost, 316, 40;
one day, insignificance of, 176, 47;
right of, 60, 29;
rule of, 113, 22;
rules of, Dr. Johnson's, 353, 47;
sayings about, 494, 5-10;
secret of, 453, 1;
so long as life, 395, 5;
the, compared with the dead, 10, 36;
the respect due to, 329, 29;
to no purpose, 151, 36;
twice, 109, 50; 158, 3;
ways of getting a, 461, 36;
well, 28, 8;
well, our main duty, 311, 53;
well, no man's concern, 295, 22

=Loan=, a double loss, 110, 14

=Lochaber= no more, 102, 23

=Lock= and key, a security, 168, 39

=Lodge=, oh, for a, in some vast wilderness, 325, 51

=Loftiest= of the race, the, characteristic of, 439, 30;
mortal, and his desires, 439, 29

=Logic= as compared with ethics, 88, 10

=Logician=, the best, 433, 41

=Loneliness=, extreme of, 395, 7;
man's, inexplicable, 161, 33;
the best, 417, 45

=Longevity= a sign of purity, 153, 37

=Longing=, vain, 525, 27-29, 31

=Longwindedness=, evil of, 237, 31

=Look= on't again I dare not, 164, 30

=Looking=, at the best side, habit of, 433, 2;
not therefore seeing, 2, 38;
not thinking, 333, 31

=Looks=, others', significance of, 469, 19

=Loquacity=, where to learn, 332, 45

=Lord=, good, good animal, 184, 12;
great, service under, 393, 4;
sayings about the, 439, 42-45;
the, eyes of, 426, 42;
the, fear of, 487, 32;
the, no counsel against, 474, 46;
the, sure to come, 174, 24;
what He requires of us, 535, 5;
when to seek, 385, 5

=Lord's=, blessings, on whom bestowed, 439, 41;
Prayer, Napoleon on, 72, 46

=Lordship=, conquest, 155, 31;
jealous of fellowship, 253, 45

=Loss=, first step to repair, 415, 32;
sometimes better than gain, 87, 10;
the smallest, not to be slighted, 394, 3

=Losses=, accustomed, 52, 41;
and crosses, lessons from, 484, 20;
comparative, 128, 23; 137, 34;
great and little, effect of, 350, 30;
relative value of, 151, 38

=Lost=, all is not, 539, 10;
sought in every cranny but the right, 111, 27;
the, valued, 110, 8

=Lot=, one's, matter of discontent, 318, 8;
our, how to estimate, 260, 37;
our, to be followed, 538, 31;
the, its disposal, 439, 47

=Louis XIV.=, Boileau of, 337, 4;
kept waiting for his carriage, 209, 33;
of his wife, 233, 1

=Louis XVI.=, Tilly on, 253, 37

=Lovable=, the, and the ridiculous, congruity of, 105, 8

=Love=, a contrast, 172, 21;
a cruel tyrant, 102, 1;
a dream, 247, 18;
a falling from, 549, 32;
as fulfilling the law, Professor Blackie on, 295, 24;
as our one debt, 340, 28;
a power divine, 314, 32;
as reconciler of things, 285, 26;
a rule of, 546, 37;
as seasoning, 504, 25;
a standard, 19, 63;
a warfare, 279, 24;
a wonderful, 486, 4;
accompaniment of, 27, 24;
all-comprehensiveness of, 256, 12;
all-hallowing, 74, 37;
always at first sight, 551, 15;
an impulse to help, 161, 4;
and admiration, 525, 34;
and ambition, wings, 258, 6;
and bickering, 482, 24;
and duty, inseparable, 474, 3;
and esteem, never sold, 214, 14;
and fear, connected, 471, 31;
and God, 189, 58;
and jealousy, 211, 33, 34, 36, 37, 40; 548, 10;
and labour, effect of, 127, 16;
and prudence, ill-matched pair, 359, 19;
and wisdom incompatible, 13, 8;
and reverence, objects respectively of, 110, 21;
as a bond, 124, 9;
as an educator, 492, 51;
as a gift of heaven, 477, 48,
as a present, 383, 20;
as a teacher, 320, 19;
as obligation, 506, 13;
ascetic, 120, 27;
at moment of parting, 487, 18;
at sight, 33, 30;
attended by memory, 479, 25;
attraction of, its law, 146, 36;
based on equality, 84, 13;
before rejection, 243, 35;
blessedness of unbroken, 104, 17;
blind, 25, 9;
burden of, 249, 19;
Christian, 257, 2;
common as light, 45, 10;
compared with admiration, 4, 33;
compared with friendship, 114, 49;
compared with hatred, 141, 21;
compared with passion, 65, 21;
compared with severity and justice, 285, 13;
composition of, 130, 12;
condition of, 556, 29;
contrasted with admiration, 63, 54;
cooling, effect of, 544, 13, 14;
courage in, 104, 25;
course of true, 109, 19;
credulous, 49, 51;
cruel power of, 183, 54;
daring of, 537, 34;
deep as the sea, 287, 41;
defined, 546, 4;
delight of, in tormenting, 17, 36;
described, 11, 44;
determining power of, 480, 39;
different kinds of, 34, 43;
direst disaster in, 476, 27;
disappointed, poison of, 218, 27;
discovery of estranged, 475, 5;
divine, described, 70, 70;
divine power of, 424, 6;
doubt of, 72, 20, 27;
early, yearning after, 320, 18;
educative power of, 222, 11, 14;
effect of, on man, 11, 51;
effect of absence on, 221, 44;
effect of different kinds of, 319, 3;
effect of, on life, 85, 14;
effect of looks on, 253, 15;
effect of, on a man's thinking, 543, 15;
effect of, on broken hearts, 498, 8;
effect of, on temper, 74, 15;
effect of time on, 487, 18;
effect on partisanship, 141, 13;
end of existence, 312, 30;
endures no tie, 108, 34;
enjoyed, 122, 23;
ennobling power of, 25, 59;
enslaving, 419, 27;
entire, a worship, 83, 44;
essential to intelligence, 202, 31;
everywhere, 190, 20;
evil of want of, 548, 44;
excess of, deprecated, 321, 18;
excessive, to be avoided, 15, 48;
excitement of, 187, 52;
expanding power of, 542, 11;
fate of, 568, 40;
first, alone infinite, 75, 9;
first consciousness of, 475, 21;
first, recurrence to, 331, 2;
first sigh of, 234, 36;
following or fleeing, 108, 10;
forced, 101, 53;
forced, not lasting, 112, 7;
genesis of, hard to date, 201, 9;
gifts of, 511, 24;
God's training of, 125, 45;
greatest miracle of, 432, 24;
happiness in, 242, 5;
heaven-revealing power of, 173, 3;
honoured, and why, 9, 65;
hope in, spite of reason, 311, 42;
hottest, 432, 12;
how kept out, 135, 10;
how to be won, 73, 53;
how to reap in, 175, 20;
idleness, 364, 15;
ignorant of, 144, 15;
impossible to conceal or express, 172, 45;
impossible to Mephistopheles, 86, 38;
indefinable by language, 399, 35;
indefinable to a true lover, 144, 26;
in man and in woman, 352, 33;
in the heart, a spur, 41, 27;
in the purest sense, 469, 10;
incompatible with dignity, 68, 6;
intelligence of, 116, 23;
invincible, 534, 24;
its coming and going, 222, 15;
killing joy, 384, 39;
lad's, saying about, 229, 9;
life, 488, 15;
magic power of, 440, 13;
master of all arts, 69, 53;
might of, 279, 13;
miraculous power of, 325, 34;
moderation in, commended, 31, 58;
money powerless to buy, 457, 9;
mystic art of, 326, 5;
no cure for, 271, 33;
no explaining, 527, 19;
no fear in, 472, 37;
no habitant
of earth, 326, 6;
no, lost, 19, 12;
no, no true pain, 144, 43;
no reason for, 308, 51;
no retreat from, 537, 8;
no struggling against, 178, 54;
no, without love, 241, 48;
not binding lover, 172, 41;
not perfect in, 146, 13;
not the sole, or even chief object of any, 294, 50;
not to be scorned, 383, 20;
not to be spoken of with scorn, 296, 66;
of a father, 103, 8;
of God, no falling out of, 217, 1;
old and new, 489, 11;
old, changing, for new, 479, 38;
old-fashioned, dead, 330, 2;
one thing needful, 414, 35;
one's first, 88, 23;
only known to mother, 319, 18;
only victory over, 446, 25;
our first, 527, 23;
our, to others, 525, 31;
pain of, a mystery, 212, 5;
pain from, 72, 32;
pains of, 340, 46;
pangs in, many, 251, 46;
partiality of, 269, 27;
passion of, effect of, on the tongue, 545, 27;
perfect, sayings about, 346, 2-4;
power of, 64, 11; 319, 27; 325, 34; 457, 25; 525, 20; 558, 30;
power of, on fools and clever people, 226, 36;
power of, over hatred, 141, 17;
power of, over sorrow, 86, 34;
power of, over the gods, 544, 15;
power of, in poet, 296, 19;
prevalency of, 524, 19;
principle of, 521, 2;
pure, might of, 360, 7;
rapture and pain of, 221, 40;
reconciling power of, 268, 16;
reflects thing beloved, 165, 23;
relieving power of, 27, 29;
risk of forswearing, 382, 10;
room enough everywhere for, 368, 39;
satisfying, 237, 22;
sayings about, 13, 56-67; 14, 3; 65, 22-25; 187, 50-53;
246, 5-12; 494, 13-16;
season, the, 440, 3;
separated in life, 504, 29;
sigh of, 555, 9;
sorrowing after hope, 479, 25;
specific against, 37, 31;
strength of, 403, 19; 404, 10;
successful, 405, 41;
sudden, 406, 2;
suppressing, 407, 22;
sympathy of, blessing in, 483, 34;
test of, 539, 44;
test of citizenship, 240, 42;
test of power of, 66, 25;
that can be reckoned, 478, 1;
that descends, 440, 6;
that lets itself be known, 479, 12;
the best, 482, 46;
the centre of, 78, 13;
the chaste blossom of, 391, 37;
the deceptive power of, 329, 33;
the double bliss in, 320, 17;
the faith of, 218, 22;
the fire of, not quenchable by words, 484, 4;
the first, 428, 26;
the first sigh of, 428, 35;
the heart's romance, 222, 13;
the hottest, 435, 33;
the key to vision, 265, 7;
the monstrosity in, 481, 46;
the offer or refusal of, 302, 48;
the only equaliser, 119, 27;
the point of, 427, 3;
the range of, 381, 38;
the rights of, 527, 42;
the true season of, 413, 33;
the truth about, 537, 7;
the universal sway of, 222, 20;
those who can animate, 335, 20;
thy, seek not to tell, 296, 61;
to be paid in love, 128, 28;
to be yielded to, 328, 35;
to doubt, 491, 47;
to God, condition of, 371, 40;
to project itself as an arrow, 47, 52;
to reason about, 367, 49;
transposing power of, 480, 38;
true, 413, 34; 500, 17-22;
true, unconcealable, 80, 14;
true, course of, 422, 1;
true, ever the same, 54, 8;
true, not to be hid, 544, 46;
true, sweet, 408, 25;
typified by colour, 44, 32;
unconcealable, 290, 31;
universal, described, 507, 36;
unquenchable, 270, 4;
unquenchable by words, 63, 43;
unwisely directed, 528, 17;
_versus_ wealth, 208, 4;
waywardness of, 106, 4;
who shuts out, 552, 31;
when deep, 83, 57;
when ripening, 377, 25;
when satisfied, 7, 58;
who alone obtain, 482, 37;
who hath, in his heart, 554, 14;
who knows, 552, 8;
wise in, advice to, 550, 34;
without esteem, 19, 52

=Love's= young dream, 478, 28

=Love-letter=, how to write good, 497, 5

=Loved=, and lost, to have, 487, 54;
how to be wholly, 490, 45;
not lost, 176, 3;
not wisely, but too well, 400, 48

=Lover=, a, for everything, 75, 21;
accepted and betrothed, 415, 30;
engaged in war, 279, 23;
fine trait in character of, 198, 12;
loved, 9, 56;
no deceiving, 366, 28;
senses of, 537, 7;
the desire of, 452, 28;
unconscious of space and time, 402, 3;
sayings about, 440, 4, 5

=Lover's=, doubts and suspicions, misery of a, 33, 21;
the, privilege, 495, 33

=Lovers=, easily entertained, 85, 19;
never tire of each other, 537, 35;
self-tormentors, 161, 10;
the perjuries of, and Jupiter, 346, 26;
two, a spectacle for gods, 79, 34

=Lovers'=, eyes, sharpness of, 110, 16;
memories, 273, 5;
quarrels, 13, 5;
tongues, silver sweet, 162, 33

=Loving=, a heaven-soaring wing, 41, 6;
and being loved, 531, 20;
and hating, alike without reason, 329, 16;
and losing, 200, 30;
believing, 41, 5;
daring, 419, 11;
fearing, 41, 7;
or not loving, effect of both alike, 533, 35;
pain of, 460, 31;
pleasure in, 472, 3;
too much, 39, 14

=Low= man, the, a success, 482, 4

=Lowest=, from, a path to highest, 116, 27;
the, to be borne with, 375, 29

=Lowly= soul, blessed, 403, 8

=Loyalty= to country sacred, 242, 2

=Lucifer=, the sin of, 428, 36

=Luck=, believers in, 388, 25;
good, 129, 44-46;
good, applied energy, 17, 12;
good, too much, 569, 33;
inspires pluck, 124, 35;
the power of, 55, 21

=Lucky=, a, man, 348, 47

=Ludlam's= dog, 232, 34

=Luminaries=, intellectual, at their brightest, 508, 8

=Lust=, contra sted with nature, 291, 38;
degrading power of, Sallust on, 286, 8

=Lustre=, no, without light, 473, 17

=Lute=, little rift in, 206, 24

=Luther=, at the Diet of Worms, 156, 26; 531, 2;
on his way to Worms, 533, 12

=Luxuries=, most, harmful, 284, 29

=Luxury=, and avarice, compared, 258, 11;
compared with poverty, 354, 35;
fatal to kingdoms, 331, 15;
peril of, 104, 26

=Lying=, accusation of, 489, 25; as vice, 31, 50;
cowardly, 246, 4;
habit of, 433, 3;
its beginning and end, 84, 19;
only for tradesmen, 241, 31;
the meanness of, 387, 35;
the price of, 429, 41

=Lyre=, a welcome, at banquet, 56, 16;
the, winged, 315, 35;
with voice and flute, compared, 429, 3

=Lyrics=, to be sung, 239, 31