| Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 604 pagina’s
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse of Human 1" "ire.] effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others... | |
| 1856 - 374 pagina’s
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emineucy iu 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, except they... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 610 pagina’s
...of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory, arising from some sudden conception of some emineney in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." — Discourse of Human effects that deserves condemnation. We find this amiable in others ; and is... | |
| Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 pagina’s
...expirations, which are mainly due to the convulsive action of the diaphragm. Hobbes defines laughter, "a sudden glory arising from a sudden conception of...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Campbell says, that in laughter the genuine object is always things grouped together, in which there... | |
| George Campbell - 1859 - 460 pagina’s
...tJtdapTiKov hov eu0*f TO -y&otov irpoaiairov aiv%pov TI Kai &itorpa^fttvov avcv oSvvrjs- — Poet 5 ter "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."* This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with lhat given in the preceding pages, and, in my judgment,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pagina’s
...is not so violent as to hinder us from recurring • " The p wsion 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 rememl ranee, except they... | |
| George Campbell - 1860 - 458 pagina’s
...defined laugh THE PHILOSOPHY OF RHETORIC. 51 ter " a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception ol some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the...infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."* This account is, I acknowledge, incompatible with lhat given in the preceding pages, and, in my judgment,... | |
| 1864 - 852 pagina’s
...conditions — viz., that there should be some ” strangeness or deviation from the ordinary appear- ! anees of nature, that this deviation should be on the '...with the humorous and genial laughter | of those that are but little given to self-glorification or proud exultation over other men's discomfiture. Partly... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
| Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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... | |
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