 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 - 1845 - 488 lapas
...action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden pjlory, 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,... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 lapas
...may therefore conclude, that 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 own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1845 - 420 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 out own formerly. For men laugh at the follies of them selves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 lapas
...of laughter is nothing els« but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some emiin.ru у in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men taujh at the folies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 lapas
...round a corner. The breath * "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 own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 lapas
...hinder us from recurring I * " 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 own formerly: for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 584 lapas
...disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes 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;" for we laugh as readily at some brilliant conception of wit, where there are no infirmities... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lapas
...may therefore conclude, that the paesion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a o= Iࡎ formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance,... | |
 | 1848 - 936 lapas
...fondness, pertness, vanity, and self-conceit." Hobbes calls it " 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." But fndge on the metaphysics of humor! we like its poetry better. 'Tis the play of the... | |
 | George Campbell - 1849 - 472 lapas
...Zmrrpafipti'trv avev oSvmis. Poet 5. ter "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception ol some eminency m ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."* This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with that given in the preceding pages, and,... | |
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