n, 1;
  conscience, of, ii. 249; iv. 216;
  destroying a portion of it without necessity, iii. 224;
  liberty and licentiousness, ii. 130;
  luxury, effects of, ii. 170;
  political and private, ii. 60, 170;
  press, of the:  See PRESS;
  pulpit, of the, iii. 59;
  taedium vitae, kept off by the notion of it, i. 394;
  teaching, of, ii. 249; iv. 216;
  thinking, preaching, and acting, of, ii. 252. 
LIBERTY and Necessity.  See FREE WILL. 
LIBRARIES,
  Johnson helps in forming the King’s library, ii. 33, n. 4;
    describes the Oxford libraries, ii. 35, 67, n. 2;
  key of one always lost, v. 65;
  Stall Library, iii. 91. 
LICENSING ACT for plays, i. 141, n. 1. 
LICHFIELD,
  ale, ii. 461; iv. 97;
  antiquities, iv. 369;
  Beaux Stratagem, scene of the, ii. 461, n. 3;
  Bishop’s palace, ii. 467;
  Boswell and Johnson visit it in 1776, ii. 461;
  Boswell shown real ‘civility,’ iii. 77;
  Boswell visits it in 1779, iii. 411-2;
  boys dipped in the font, i. 91, n. 1;
  Cathedral, i. 81, n. 2; ii. 466; v. 456;
    Johnson in the porch, ii. 466, n. 3;
  city of philosophers, ii. 464;
  city and county in itself, i. 36, n. 4;
  coach-journey from London, i. 340, n. 1;
    postchaise, iii. 411;
  Darwin’s house, v. 428, n. 3;
  drunk, all the decent people got, v. 59;
  English spoken there, purity of the, ii. 463-4;
  Evelina not heard of there, ii. 463, n. 4;
  Friary, The, ii. 466; iii. 412;
  George Inn, iii. 411;
  Green’s museum, ii. 465; iii. 412; v. 428;
  Hospital, v. 445;
  Hutton describes the town in 1741, i. 86, n. 2;
  Jacobite fox-hunt, iii. 326, n. 1;
  Johnson, Michael, a magistrate, i, 36; ii. 322, n. 1;
  Johnson, his barber, ii. 52, n. 2;
    beloved in his native city, ii. 469;
      respect shown him by the corporation, iv. 372, n. 2;
    defines it in his Dictionary, iv. 372;
    hopes to set a good example, iv. 135;
    house, i. 75; ii. 461; iv. 372, n. 2; 402, n. 2;
    Latin verses to a stream, iii. 92, n, 1;
    as Lord Lichfield, iii. 310;
    loses three old friends, iv. 366;
    monument in the Cathedral, iv. 423;
    portrait admired there, ii. 141;
    saucer in the Museum, iii. 220, n. 1;
    theatre, tosses a man into the pit of the, ii. 299;
      in love with an actress, ii. 464;
      praises an actor, ii. 465;
      attends it with Boswell, ii. 464-5, 471;
    visits the town for the first time after living in London, i. 370;
      last visit, iv. 372;
      (for his other visits see iii. 450-3);
    weary of it, ii. 52;
    willow tree, iv. 372, n. 1;
  lecture on experimental philosophy, v. 108;
  manufactures, ii. 464;
  oat ale and cakes, ii. 463;
  people sober and genteel, ii. 463;
  population in 1781, iii. 450;