 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pagina’s
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some emincncy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves post, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 626 pagina’s
...laughter, concludes thus : ' 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 pagina’s
...laughter, concludes thus : ' 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 pagina’s
...laughter, concludes thus : ' 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... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 604 pagina’s
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some eininency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discount of Human Nature ] effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others ;... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1854 - 620 pagina’s
...unexpected, he defines it to be " a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of some eruinency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly, for men laugh at the fellies of themselves past." It might be objected, that those are most prone to... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - 1856 - 500 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 - 1856 - 628 pagina’s
...laughter, concludes thus : ' 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... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 524 pagina’s
...laughter, concludes thus : " 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1856 - 378 pagina’s
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sadden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly :|for(men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when fhey come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
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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... 
