 | Alexander Bain - 1865 - 660 pagina’s
...is well-known, and has been greatly attacked. 'Laughter,' he says, 'is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' In other words, it is an expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there are many... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1867 - 352 pagina’s
...parallel construction. 8. "I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is " nothing (else) but sudden glory arising from a sudden conception " of...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... | |
 | 1867 - 554 pagina’s
...theory of Hobbes, ' 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 where they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | 1867 - 528 pagina’s
...according to whom, the source of laughter is " a sudden glory arising from conception of some emineucy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly " ('Human Nature/ ch. ix., s. 13). With Hobbes's opinion, that of Helvetius coincides, who makes pride... | |
 | 1867 - 850 pagina’s
...nothing else but sudden glory arismf from some sudden conception of 0 « • i i_ • some emmeney in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others ; or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past where they coiné suddenly to remembrance, except... | |
 | 1867 - 548 pagina’s
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some emiuency in ourselves by comparison with the infirmity of others ; or with our own formerly ; for men laugh at the follies of themselves past where they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | 1868 - 854 pagina’s
...pity. Hobbes has given a theory to the effect that laughter is 'a sudden glory, arising from a gndden conception of some eminency in ourselves by comparison...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 902 pagina’s
...of a vulgar mechanical process. In the theory of Hobbes, ' Laughter is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' In other words, it is an expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there are many... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 588 pagina’s
...of a vulgar mechanical process. In the theory of Hobbes, ' Laughter is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." In othar words, it is an expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there are many... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1868 - 578 pagina’s
...the theory of Hobbes, ' Laughter is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some emincucy in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' In other words, it is an expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there are many... | |
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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... 
