The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly... The Monist - 412. lappuselaboja - 1921Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 lapas
...imposter, they are the last of a wit. Young. DCCCCVI. The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 lapas
...imposter, they are the last of a wit. Young. DCCCCVL The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 834 lapas
...in gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. 1:1. The passion of laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. Hobbet. Where men cannot arrive to any eminency of estate, yet religion makes a compensation,... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 lapas
...we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmities of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past,... | |
| Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1831 - 544 lapas
...action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." To this notion of the origin of this class of our feelings, there are some objections; viz.... | |
| 1836 - 932 lapas
...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but t , _ in the populous and wealthy city of London,...see any of my friends, am uneasy in all she, "yon Formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 lapas
...employed by Hobbes, who says, " The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our aim formerly. For men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 lapas
...very curious .observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 lapas
...never laugh thereat. I may therefore 115 conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing" else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 614 lapas
...fine raillery, it must be allowed that it is not (1) [" The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Discourse of Human Nature.'} natural to the English, and therefore those who endeavour... | |
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