 For when a jest is broken upon ourselves, or friends, of whose dishonor we 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 of some eminence...  The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Pagina 587geredigeerd door - 1854Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | 1803 - 434 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 eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men... | |
 | James Beattie - 1809 - 406 pagina’s
...approbation in the forty-seventh paper of the Spectator. " The passion of laughter (says " Mr. Hobbes) 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 for" merly. For... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 412 pagina’s
...much the bestoi 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 eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 370 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 eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pagina’s
...the best of all his works, after some very curious observation.« upon laughter, concludes thus: ' 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 ; for men... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 450 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 eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 632 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 eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 884 pagina’s
...works, after some very curious observations upon laughter, concludes thus: 'The. passion of kughter 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: for men... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 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 eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pagina’s
...ambiguities are the first excellence of an 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 some eminency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly: for men... | |
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