Project Gutenberg 2015-01-17 Public domain in the USA. 105 Brewer, George 1766 The Juvenile Lavater; or, A Familiar Explanation of the Passions of Le Brun Calculated for the Instruction & Entertainment of Young Persons; Interspersed with Moral and Amusing Tales Produced by David Edwards, Christopher Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Juvenile Lavater; or, A Familiar Explanation of the Passions of Le Brun" by George Brewer is a didactic story written in the early 19th century. The work aims to educate and entertain young readers by exploring human emotions through the lens of physiognomy as proposed by Johann Caspar Lavater, illustrated by the passionate works of French artist Charles Le Brun. Through the experiences of the Willock family, the text emphasizes the virtues of good passions while contrasting them with the consequences of negative emotions. At the start of the narrative, we are introduced to Mr. Willock, a father devoted to his five children, as he plans to showcase fascinating portraits depicting various human feelings. The children’s eager anticipation leads to a lesson on the passion of Attention, wherein Mr. Willock uses a portrait to engage them, explaining how this emotion is crucial for learning and development. The unfolding tale incorporates moral stories that emphasize the importance of attention to family, education, and virtue, ultimately promoting the idea that cultivating positive emotions equals personal happiness and societal benefit. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 68.7 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Physiognomy BF Text Category: Children & Young Adult Reading 184781 2025-07-19T09:38:11.078453 text/html 166232 2024-10-24T14:04:16 text/html 1192724 2025-07-19T09:38:15.325394 application/epub+zip 1192900 2025-07-19T09:38:11.949423 application/epub+zip 144140 2025-07-19T09:38:11.482422 application/epub+zip 1267691 2025-07-19T09:38:17.949426 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1233463 2025-07-19T09:38:14.799439 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 187990 2022-09-21T18:36:34.414340 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 149620 2025-07-19T09:38:10.680444 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 129550 2024-10-24T14:04:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17016 2025-07-19T09:38:18.076378 application/rdf+xml 20230 2025-07-19T09:38:11.557408 image/jpeg 3304 2025-07-19T09:38:11.520415 image/jpeg 1151020 2025-07-19T09:38:11.137448 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia