 | Alexander Walker - 1840 - 434 pagina’s
...admit of no objection. Hobbes, viewing more particularly the act of the mind, defines laughter to be a " sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...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 discovering... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1840 - 492 pagina’s
...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1841 - 512 pagina’s
...independently of the mere muscular action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...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. —... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pagina’s
...laughter, concludes thus: 'The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some hile the step-mother, with all imaginable anxiety,...borders of it, to call them out of an element tha for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1862 - 604 pagina’s
...therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly : for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 pagina’s
...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, nymph?, ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pagina’s
...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...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1845 - 488 pagina’s
...mere muscular action, is nothing more than a feeling of the ludicrous, that it is " a sudden pjlory, arising from a sudden conception of some eminency...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. —... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 806 pagina’s
...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, eicepl they... | |
 | Thomas Brown, David Welsh - 1846 - 584 pagina’s
...emotion, would be to our disadvantage. It is in vain, for example, that Hobbes defines laughter to be " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception of...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 of others... | |
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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 infirmity of others, or with our own formerly... 
