 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pagina’s
...instrument of happiness. DRYDEN. 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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. The passion... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 514 pagina’s
...the following one: 1 " 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." — HOBBES' Discount of Human Nature. " The English," says he, "have too much bravery to submit to... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1882 - 290 pagina’s
...our past selves, is by no means an invariable, or even a very frequent, accompaniment of laughter. conception of some 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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1882 - 576 pagina’s
...the theory of Hobbes, ' Laughter is a sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eioiuency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' In othar words, it is un expression of the pleasurable feeling of superior power. Now, there are many... | |
 | Leonard Feinberg - 1978 - 226 pagina’s
...passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception oT~~some" eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly." Plato implied that in laughter there is always an element of contempt, at someone's ignorance or vanity... | |
 | 1977 - 704 pagina’s
...Philosophy of the Human Mind' (Edinburgh, 1824) no. 58, discusses Hobbes' famous definition of laughter as, 'a sudden glory, arising from a sudden conception...the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.' Cf. Francis Hutcheson (1694-1746) 'Thoughts on Laughter' ('Hibernicus's Letters' Dublin, 1725/7); EA... | |
 | Konrad Schoell - 1983 - 258 pagina’s
...formuliert wurde: "Laughter is nothing but the sudden glory arising from sudden conception of some eminence in ourselves; by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly."25 Ähnlich findet sich die psychologische Erklärung bei Stendhal, bei Baudelaire. In einem... | |
 | V. Raskin - 1984 - 316 pagina’s
...Hobbes. "The passion of laughter," wrote Hobbes, "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 thefollies of themselves past, when they come suddenly to remembrance, except they... | |
 | Gary Shapiro - 1989 - 196 pagina’s
...reductionistic formula, 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. ... It is vain glory, and an argument of little worth to think the infirmity of another, sufficient... | |
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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... 
