 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
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1837 - 510 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 ;... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 400 lapas
...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothingelse but sudden glory, arising from some sadden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the folliesof themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1839 - 810 lapas
...that moves laughter, it must be new and unexpected, he defines it to be "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, for men laugh at the follies of themselves past." It might be objected, that those are most... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1840 - 492 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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 lapas
...viewing more particularly the act of the mind, defines laughter to be 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." And elsewhere he says: " Men laugh at jests, the wit whereof always consisteth in the elegant... | |
 | George Campbell - 1840 - 450 lapas
...descend to the philosopher of Malmesbury, who hath defined laughter "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly4." This account is, I acThe whole passage runs thus, *H Se xvfjtxtittt e<rrtv, Awwef tiwofjt.iv,... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 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,... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 lapas
...very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but ond, immediately ran into it; while the step-mother,...about the borders of it, to call them out of an e formerly; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 lapas
...participate, we never laugh thereat I may therefore 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,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 lapas
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glorv arising from a sudden conception of some emincncy te-thorn blows ; Such, Lycidas, thy loss to shepherds' ear. Where were ye formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
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