 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 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 llicj... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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... | |
 | 1873 - 850 pagina’s
...largest class — the doctrine of Hobbes, if properly guarded, would be found fully applicable. There is notable form is the hysterical fit, where the explosiveness...number of cases, especially the laugh of ridicule, a strong satisfaction in pulling anything down from a high pinnacle to plunge it in the mire, which... | |
 | Popular encyclopedia - 1875 - 532 pagina’s
...nearly allied. He therefore agrees substantially with Hobbes, who defines the source of laughter to be 'a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly ' (Human Nature, chap. ix. s. 13). This theory, from the harsh judgment of human nature implied in... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pagina’s
...instrument of happiness. DRYDEN. I may therefore conclude, that the passion of laughter is uothing 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pagina’s
...never honourable to the subject of it." So Hobbcs asserts, " Laughter is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by...infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." This expresses our feeling in victory, ridicule, derision, or contempt (Bain). The following is an amusing... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 pagina’s
...participate, we never laugh thereat. I may therefore conclude that the passion of laughter is nothing else but d out before us, for us and our children. Beyond that...grant that, in my day at least, that curtain may not r for men laugh at the follies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remeiabrance, except they... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pagina’s
...the pu-i.-iun of laughter is nothing else but sudde i glory arising from a sudden conception of gome eminency in 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... | |
 | 1892 - 708 pagina’s
...laughter and contempt. Yet : like Campbell, he does not do justice to Hobbes, who defines laughter as "a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Both Beattie and Campbell are very hard on this definition, but as a matter of fact it lays great stress... | |
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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... 
