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Land. What raises the value of it, v. 272. Whence the dearness of it in Ireland, ix. 206. 263.

Landed Interest. Lessened by the increase of the monied, iii. 6. Which may prove dangerous to the constitution, 182.

Landlords. Their cruelty and oppression in Ireland, x. 112.

Lanfranc (archbishop of Canterbury). His being preferred by William Rufus, in his favour and ministry, the cause of Odo's discontent, xvi. 10. On his death, the see kept vacant four years, 12.

Langford (sir Arthur). Reproved by Dr. Swift, for erecting a conventicle, xi. 427.

Langton (Dominick). His false charge of a plot, xi. 175. 188.

Language. Better not wholly perfect, than perpetually changing, v. 76. One of its greatest perfections, simplicity, ibid. What esteemed fine language by the better sort of vulgar, 88. The language of the northern nations full of monosyllables and mute consonants united, 196. See English language.

Lansdown (lord). Offended at a passage in the Examiner, xv. 284.

Laputa (or the flying island). The people of it described, vi. 181.

Laracor. The dean purchases a glebe, for the benefit of his successors in that living, xi. 450. 457. xii. 330.

Latin tongue. In Britain, never in its purity, nor yet so vulgar as in Gaul and Spain, v. 65. More words of it remain in the British tongue than in the old Saxon, ibid. Suffered as much change in three hundred years as the English and French in the same space, 67. Reasons assigned for the corruptions of it, ibid.

Latinitas Grattaniana, xiii. 339.

Laughter. Causes of it, viii. 244.

Lancelot (Mr). Swift's letter to the earl of Chesterfield, in his behalf, xii. 357. Married a relation of the dean, 358.

Lavallin (captain). His remarkable story, and its melancholy consequences, xiv. 226.

Laws. Those of Brobdingnag described, vi. 154. That men should be ruined by them, a paradox not understood by the Houyhnhnms, 292. Method of suits at law as practised in England, 293. Owing to the defects in reason, 307. Those of the twelve tables whence formed, ii. 318. What law in a free country is, or ought to be, v. 461. Qualifications requisite to those who are to make them, 131. Why the force of them is often eluded by knaves, iii. 200. Our laws extremely defective in many instances, 202. Laws to bind men without their own consent not obligatory, ix. 8. Law of God, all other laws precarious without it, x. 49. Itself invariable, xvi. 192. Law the will of the supreme legislature, xvi. 191. What is now called common law was first introduced by Edward the Confessor, xvi. 8. Observations on the Salique law, iv. 222. A lawsuit a suit for life, xvi. 155. Their execution should not be trusted to those who interest it is to see them broken, 52.

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