Landscape: companionship, 31; ignorance about the English, 270. Languages: as affecting friendship, 7; similarity, 10; influences interdependence, 12; study of foreign, 29, 84, 85; ignorance of, an Obstacle (Essay XI.), 148-160; impediment to national intercourse, 148; mutual ignorance of the French and English, 149; commercial advantages, American kinship, 150; an imperfect knowledge induces reticence, 151; rarity of full knowledge, 152; illustrations, first stage of learning a tongue, 153; second, 154; third, fourth, 155; fifth, learning by ear, 156; absurdities, idioms, forms of politeness, 157; a universal speech, 158; Greek commended, 159; advantages, 160; one enough, 301, 305; acquaintance with six, 304; foreign letters, 364, 365. Latin: teaching, 84; construction unnatural, 155; in the Renaissance, 212; church, 258; proverb, 287; poetry, 289; in telegrams, 324; Horace, 361; _corrogata_, 390. Laws: difficult to ascertain, viii; human resignation to, xi; of Human Intercourse (Essay I.), 3-11; fixed knowledge difficult, 3, common belief, 4; similarity of interest, 5; may breed antagonism, 6; national prejudices, 7; likeness begets friendship, 8; idiosyncrasy and adaptability, 9; intimacy slow, 10; law of the pleasure of human intercourse still hidden, 11; fixed, 179; feminine disregard, 184; quiet tone, 193; regularity and interference (Essay XV.), 215-231 _passim_; legal distinctions, 280, 281. Laymen, contrasted with clergy, 181, 182. Lectures, one-sided, 29. Legouvé, M.: on filial relations, 78; religious question, 93; anecdote of chirography, 332. Leisure: its connection with refinement, 125, 126; varying in different professions, 196, 197. Leloir, Louis, fondness for etching, 401. Lent, allusion, 198. Letters. (See _Correspondence_.) Lever, Charles: quotation from That Boy of Norcott's, 249, 250; finances misunderstood, 259, 260; boating, 259, 394. Lewes, George Henry: relation to Marian Evans, 45; quotation from Life of Goethe, 244. Lewis, Sir George Cornewall, immortal saying, 385. L'Honneur et l'Argent, quotation, 304, 335. Liberality: French lack of, 18, 19; induced by hospitality, 99, 100; apparent, 173. Liberty: in religion (Essay XII.), 161-174; private and public, 281, 282; _liberté_, 282, 283; with friends in letters, 353. Libraries: value, 286, 287; narrow specimens, 302. Lies, at a premium, 162, 163. Life: companionship for, 44-62; enjoyed in different ways, 306. Likeness, the secret of companionship, 8. Limpet, an illustration of incivility, 108.