 | Robert Bisset - 1800 - 678 pagina’s
...spoken of it with approbation in the 47th Spectator. ' The passion of Uughter,' says Mr. Hobbes, ' is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eininency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, ir with our own formerly. For men... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 394 pagina’s
...much the best of all his works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus : ' The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some cminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1830 - 88 pagina’s
...or friends of whose dishonour we participate, we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden...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,... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1836 - 528 pagina’s
...subjects must destroy one another." But he overlooks the precise terms 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... | |
 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 pagina’s
...subjects must destroy one another." But he overlooks the precise terms 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...friends, of whose dishonour we participate, we never laugh thereat. I 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pagina’s
...and agreeable, because i the jar against us is not so violent as to 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pagina’s
...from that which is occasioned by dashing against some pleasant friend 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 pagina’s
...friends, of whose dishonour we participate, we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude, that e Ч would boldly trip, And print those roses on my lip. But all its c a sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with... | |
 | 1853 - 524 pagina’s
...undisputed fools in his retinue, whom the rest of the courtiers are always breaking their jests upon. passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conceptiou of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own... | |
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I 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... 
