Book/Printed Material Aphorisms on man
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Image 1 of Aphorisms on man
Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
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Image 2 of Aphorisms on man
Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 po LC THE GIFT OF 2 LESSING J ROSENWALD TO THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
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Image 4 of Aphorisms on man
Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 ha- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 AN NN Re rl Zz Cr NN NO N RN MIAN WW AN WN Z 2 ZZ aa Ze AW RAR RHR NN HR RAN AANA AN WW ar A EN SUSAN…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT or Tui Rev JOHN CASPAR LAVATER CITIZEN OF ZURIC ââ ceclo defcendit yrwds csavrov Juv Sat 1X4 THIRD EDITION TE RI AD I or A I ee…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 ru i HENNEY PUSELL AW TaxE dear obferver of men from the hand of your unbiafled friend this teftimony of efteem for your gentus All the world know that this is no…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 ESR WAT Sr A SE vi DEDICATION cottage Allis not cannot be new but all ought to be true ufeful import ant and much I truft is new and in dividual I…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 ISEMENTT In the following colleion of Apho rims the reader is not to enpect a fet of maxims compiled from the authorâs s owl r by him feleed from the works of…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 A er STI a vil ADVERTISEMENT if fome are not new they are recom mended by an air of novelty if whim fhould appear to have dictated others it was the whim…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 APHORISMS Know in the firft place that mankind agree in effence as they do mn their limbs and fenfes 2 Mankind differ as much in ef fence as they do in form…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 1 DC 1 1 i i looki As In o upward eac ng t 1m I jee fal 1 mult 1 1 J 1 L 3 os 1 tr luals 1VIC d…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 21 6 The more complex yet uniform the more varied yet harmonious the medium of felfenjoyment the more exiftent and real the more vigorous and dignified the more bleft and blefling is…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 2 what is called a finner fin and deftrution of order are the fame 9 The more unharmonious and in confiftent your objects of defire the more inconfequent inconftant un quiet the…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 You enjoy with wifdom or with folly as the gratification of your appetites capacitates or unnerves your powers 12 He fcatters enjoyment who can enjoy much 13 Joy and grief decide charaÃter…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 6 fiis withes his end of exiftence Either that which on every occa fion he communicates with the moft unreftrained cordiality or hides from every profane eye and ear with myfterious awe…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 the prince ordered fire to be cried in the neighbourhood at the firft noife the artift abruptly left the prince and feized his darling his Titian The alarm proved a falfe one…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 the more fraught with internal refources the greater the cha racter 16 The greateft of charaters no doubt would be he who free of all triflingâ accidental helps could fee objects through…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 5g able refolution againft all that threatens the real unity of exift ence and bands of orderâwhere you find thefe there offer the ho mage due to humanity 13 The ftudy of…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 3c 1 he loves or hates â as thefe are in perpetual unifon you difcover his energy of will and by that himfelf 20 Diflinguith with exanefs in thyfelf and others between…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 21 Calmnefs of will is a fign of grandeur The vulgar far from hiding their will blab their withes A fingle park of occafion difcharges the child of paflions into a thoufand…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 i al  12 duce more and better has talents who can produce what none elfe can has genius 24 The acquifition of will for one thing exclufively prefuppofes en tire acquaintance…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 12 writing the more quiet uni form fettled his actions his character 27 Who is open without levity generous without wafte fecret without craft humble without meannefs bold without infolence cautious without…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 A Te Ene ââ 2 tue vice are equal to fueh an one tell neither good nor bad of yourfelf a IS Who forces himfelf on others himfelf a load Impetuous cu…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 Let the degree of egotifm be the meafure of confidence 33 Indifcretion rafhnefs falfehood levity and malice produce each other 14 Who the exhilarating mirth of humour excepte d gives unealinefs in…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 Who pries is indifcreet the fide glance difmayed when ob ferved feeks to enfnare 36 Who begins with teverity in judging of another ends com monly with falfehood 37 The miles that…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 17 ing convinces him of his error commands our veneration 39 Who without prefling tempta tion tells a lie will without prefi ing temptation alt ignobly and meanly 40 Who under prefling…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 Search carefully into the unifon and difcords of a manâs perfon fate and merit and you may ana lyfe his charadter fo clearly that you may almoft with certainty fore tel what…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 197 Man is for ever the fame the fame under every form in all fitu ations and relations that admit of free and unreftrained exertion The fame regard which you have for…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 âWhere confequence ceafes there folly reftlefsnefs and mifery begin âConfequence determines your de gree of refpectability in every di verging point from your enemy to your God 47 Mian has an inward…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 ia1 and licerature the wifer nobler greater the more humane yourfelf 48 Â He who ats moft confequenti ally is the moft friendly and the moft worthy of friendthip the more inconfequential…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 The moft exuberant encomiaflt turns eafily into the moft inveterate cenfor 5 I The lofs of tafte for what is right is lofs of all right tafte 52 Who affeÃts ufelefs fingularities…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 Frequent laughing has been long called a fign of a little mind quiet has been complimented as the mark of a noble heart But to abftain from laughing and ex citing laughter…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 24 56 Sofinels of fmile indicates foft nefs of character 57 The immoderate cannot laugh moderately 58 The horfelaugh indicates bruta lity of character 59 A neer is often the ign of…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 ViAR Â 25 61 T know not which of thele two I thould with to avoid moft the coffer at virtue and religion who with heartles villany butchers in nocence and truth…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 â 26 63 The moft ftormy ebullitions of paffion from blafphemy to mur der are lefs terrific than one fingle iad act of cool villany a fill rabies is more dangerous than…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
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Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1 Ler 65 Take this as another mark of a decided knave that after each knavith expreflion he labours to fupprefs a grin of malice and me ditates new mifchief 66 Can he…- Contributor: Lavater, Johann Caspar - Fuseli, Henry - Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress) - Blake, William - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress) - Johnson, Joseph - Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1794
About this Item
Title
- Aphorisms on man
Other Title
- Half title: Aphorisms, vol. 1
Names
- Lavater, Johann Caspar, 1741-1801, author
- Blake, William, 1757-1827, engraver
- Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825, translator
- Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809, bookseller
- Pre-1801 Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, M,DCC,XCIV [1794]
Headings
- - Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800
- - England--London
Notes
- - Translated by Henry Fuseli.
- - Plate engraved by William Blake.
- - A second volume of "aphorisms on art" (by Fuseli?) promised in the Advertisement (page viii) was printed, but the whole impression destroyed by fire. See Life and writings of Henry Fuseli, 1831, volume 1, page 160.
- - Signatures: pi⁴ A-O⁸.
- - Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection (1977), 1831
- - Keynes, G.L. Bibliography of W. Blake (New York, 1921), 101, note
- - English short title catalogue, T109407
- - LAC knj 2020-11-18 update (1 card)
- - New input done using PT2392.L2 A3 1794 Copy 3 only; copies 1 and 2 not seen by cataloger. he04 2025-08-07
- - LAC ddw 2022-04-13 update (1 card)
Medium
- 1 volume (viii, 224 pages, [1] leaf of plates) : 1 illustration (engraving) ; 15 cm (8vo)
Call Number/Physical Location
- PT2392.L2 A3 1794
- PT2392.L2 A3 1794 Copy 2 Rosenwald Coll. Half-title, with series note, mounted inside front cover.
- PT2392.L2 A3 1794 Copy 3 Imperfect: wanting half title.
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- 18003155
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- Blake, William
- Fuseli, Henry
- Johnson, Joseph
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Lavater, Johann Caspar
- Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)
- Pre- Imprint Collection (Library of Congress)